Kevin Spacey, former Oscar-winning thespian, current Hollywood
perv, is, again, severely out of touch.
According to a new Hollywood Reporter
piece detailing Spacey’s legal troubles, during
a legal deposition, Spacey “sprung up from his seat” and performed a
song-and-dance number.
Seriously. Sadly, no one had picked Kevin Spacey Channels
Judy Garland During the Deposition on their Bingo card so there is no video.
But we do know from folks who witnessed the show, that
Spacey’s performance happened during his legal battle with former employer,
Media Rights Capital, who produced House of Cards, and are seeking
tens of millions of dollars in damages they suffered after the allegations
against Spacey came out. Spacey, of course, countersued, saying they owe him money.
Anyway, after more than a year of private negotiations, the
Spacey case was submitted to an arbitrator in February 2020, right before the lockdown
began. And, like everything in Spacey’s world, the legal proceedings quickly turned
bizarre when Spacey sprung up from his seat and performed a song-and-dance
number in the conference room.
No word on what he sang, or if he brought tap shoes but I’m
guessing he’s practicing his fancy footwork as a way of getting out of this
mess. Not guilty by reason of being a showman?
And this lawsuit isn’t Spacey’s only legal battle. While
three of his sexual misconduct accusers have died—illness, suicide, hit by a
car—he’s still being sued for sexual assault by one of his ex-acting
students from the ’80s—who was 14 at the time; Anthony Rapp is also a plaintiff
in that suit, and he was also 14 when Kevin allegedly assaulted him. And then
there are the six sexual assault accusations out of London, where Spacey lived
while running the Old Vic theatre. The Brits are still deciding whether to
press criminal charges against him, based on findings made by Scotland Yard’s
Child Abuse and Sexual Offences Command.
I wonder what he’ll sing at that hearing.
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