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Kevin Spacey Resurfaces in Spain After Criminal Sexual Assault Case

The actor posed with a street band in his second bizarre sighting since his Massachusetts case was dropped in July.
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In mid-July, Massachusetts prosecutors dropped a criminal case against Kevin Spacey, who had been accused of groping a then-18-year-old busboy at a Nantucket bar in 2016. Since then, the actor has kept a low profile—though he popped up in Rome to perform a spoken-word poem about a boxer making a comeback, a heavy-handed reference, perhaps, to his own career. The actor has apparently decided to continue touring Europe, getting spotted in Spain performing with a street band this week.

The actor was in Seville at a restaurant with some friends around 2 a.m., local time, when the band Tuna de Derecho de Sevilla was performing on the street. One of the members, Miguel Segura Caballero, asked for a photo after spotting Spacey.

“I walked over to him and explained why we were there and asked if we could take a quick photo with him. He said ‘Yes, of course,’“ Caballero said, per People. “To begin with, everybody was looking at him, but after a while everything became normal.”

Videos were posted on Instagram of Spacey posing with people on the street and performing “Twist and Shout” with the band, singing and playing the guitar. This is the second public sighting of Spacey since his high-profile case was dropped. Spacey pleaded not guilty in the case; Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe said it was ultimately dropped “due to the unavailability of the complaining witness,” according to CNN.

Prior to that, Spacey had been shunned from Hollywood after being accused of sexual misconduct by numerous men, beginning with claims from actor Anthony Rapp. In October of 2017, Rapp said that Spacey had acted sexually inappropriately toward him when he was 14; Spacey was 26 at the time. The actor issued a statement apologizing to Rapp, but claiming he did not remember the alleged incident. After the allegations were made, Spacey was dropped from House of Cards, and a completed biopic of Gore Vidal starring Spacey was shelved by Netflix. Spacey was also edited out of the film All the Money in the World and replaced by Christopher Plummer. Though he generally has avoided the spotlight in the nearly two years since, Spacey did resurface in a strange, House of Cards–style video last December, in which he broke the fourth wall and performed in character as Frank Underwood.

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