He’s trying to keep it under his hat but, yes, that IS Kevin Spacey
DISHEVELLED, potbellied and his face all but hidden by a woolly hat and scarf, this is disgraced Hollywood superstar Kevin Spacey breaking cover in his first public appearance in more than a year.
The double Oscar winner’s attempt to pass incognito came just days after he was charged with indecent assault and battery.
The 59-year-old is alleged to have groped an 18-year-old man in a restaurant in Massachusetts in 2016. Spacey denies the claims.
The actor – acclaimed for performances in American Beauty, The Usual Suspects and House Of Cards – was seen on Friday stepping out of a warehouse building into a black SUV.
His lawyers are pleading for him to be excused from attending a hearing at Nantucket District Court on January 7, but prosecutors are demanding the judge rejects the motion. Last week, the star responded to the allegations with a bizarre clip online in which he appeared as his House Of Cards character, the scheming US President Frank Underwood, and urged the public not to prejudge the case. In the video, entitled ‘Let Me Be Frank’, he says: ‘You wouldn’t rush to judgments without facts would you? Did you? No, not you, you are smarter than that.’
By last night it had been viewed more than eight million times. Since last year, dozens of men are understood to have alleged that Spacey made unwanted sexual advances towards them.
He is the most high-profile name to be mired in scandal since the allegations of sexual assault against Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein first emerged in October last year. Weinstein denies the claims.