LA prosecutors review Spacey assault claims

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office is reviewing a case of alleged sexual abuse involving Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey, 58, officials said Wednesday.

“Yes. I can confirm our office did receive a case involving Kevin Spacey,” Greg Risling, a spokesman for the district attorney’s office, said in an email.

The investigation was referred to prosecutors April 5 by the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department.

The department’s Special Victims Bureau began an investigation into allegations of a sexual assault involving Spacey on Dec 11, 2017, Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Nicole Nishida said.

“The events were reported to have taken place in October of 1992 in West Hollywood involving a male adult,” she said.

The investigation was completed and presented to the district attorney’s office Entertainment Industry Sex Crimes Task Force for review and filing consideration.

Officials have declined to give specifics about the allegation against Spacey, but the date of the alleged incident would make it impossible to prosecute.

Any sex crime involving an adult that occurred in 1992 would fall outside California’s statute of limitations. Two years ago, California lawmakers enacted a law eliminating the previous 10-year statute of limitations for rape — the most serious of sex crimes — but that does not include offenses prior to 2016.

The case is the first police investigation naming Spacey as a suspect in Los Angeles County.

Spacey, the former artistic director of the Old Vic theater in London, already is the subject of multiple police investigations in Massachusetts and England.