Kevin Spacey calls his father a “neo-Nazi” as Anthony Rapp sexual misconduct trail continues
"My father was a white supremacist and a neo-Nazi," Kevin Spacey shared during witness testimony. "I have never talked about these things publicly ever."
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As his sexual misconduct trial in New York continues, Kevin Spacey shared that he struggled with his sexuality early in life due to his father’s homophobic views.
“My father was a white supremacist and a neo-Nazi,” Spacey says of his father, Thomas Fowler, per Variety. “I have never talked about these things publicly ever… I grew up in a very complicated family dynamic.”’
The admission came as Spacey took the stand for defense testimony. Spacey faces a $40 million civil lawsuit from actor Anthony Rapp, who alleges that Spacey made unwanted sexual advances on him in 1986, when Rapp was 14 years old. In previous testimony, Rapp has described the incident as “the most traumatic single event of my life.”
“I knew something was wrong,” Rapp said. “I had this feeling I had to get out of there. What I was also feeling was frozen.”
Spacey has repeatedly denied Rapp’s claims, and used an initial 2017 public apology to come out as gay. When Spacey’s lead attorney Chase A. Scolnick asked him to comment on Rapp’s suggestion in earlier testimony that Spacey was a “fraud” for not coming out sooner, Spacey dove into his past.
“To call someone a fraud is to say someone is living a lie,” Spacey said. “I wasn’t living a lie. I was just reluctant to talk about my personal life.”
Further describing his family dynamic, Spacey reportedly shares that he was “terrified” of his father and was “forced to listen” to Fowler’s bigoted tirades. When Spacey expressed interest in becoming an actor, Fowler reportedly told him “don’t be an f-word.”
“I won’t say it here because it’s derogatory,” Spacey says. “I certainly had a degree of shame.”
On Monday, judges dismissed an emotional distress claim Rapp filed against Spacey on the grounds that it would “duplicate damages,” per Judge Lewis A. Kaplan. Spacey still faces battery charges (and a hefty fine to go with them).
Beyond his New York City trial, Spacey also faces five sexual assault charges in the U.K., to which he has also pled not guilty. A trial for those charges—which include four counts of sexual assault from three different men dating back to 2005—will begin next summer.
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Did teenage Spacey show his friends his dad’s secret collection of Nazi dishes?
Nazi dish:
This all sounds like some bad movie..
It’s ok, I know a little German. He’s over there!
With the recent revelations about Mena Suvari’s toxic relationships and now this I’m becoming to wonder if American Beauty was actually a documentary?
“My father was a white supremacist and a neo-Nazi,” Why do I hear this as Verbal Kent saying it? Like in his cadence and everything. “I was in a barber shop quartet in Skokie Illinois…”
It was kind of weird that Dan Hadaya’s desk lamp in that scene was from a “Neo-Nazi” brand.
He stole the idea from Peacemaker.
“Mr. Spacey, did you hump the boy at that party?”
“My father was a neo-Nazi!”
“Ok, maybe just answer the question put to you?”
Spacey keeps trying to make himself sympathetic, as if he did something mildly inappropriate and is trying to keep from being cancelled. This is sexual assault, no one cares about your sob story, especially in court.
I guess making those weird supervillainy video posts wasn’t the winning strategy he thought it was
JFC I forgot all about those…man they were weird.
Sexual misconduct trail? Really?
Just thought I would throw this in regarding Nazi relatives: Dee: Are you saying that we have to decide whether or not that old
Nazi bitch lives or dies?
Lawyer: There’s that charm.
Dude should have just written a book titled ‘I’m Glad My Father Died,’ instead of you know, becoming a sexual predator.
“my dad was a homophobic neo-Nazi (of course we’ll never get to drill into that because dad is long dead) which made me become an unrepentant sexual predator.” LOL I sure hope the jury sees that for the massive pile of bullshit it is. At some point bro no matter what evil shit your dad did to *you*, *you* can still choose NOT to prey on young dudes.
“a homophobic neo-Nazi”
Is there any other kind?
Well, they weren’t neo-Nazis, but:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%B6hm
Congrats on forgetting about the general existence of Milo Yiannopoulos.
It wasn’t that hard.
I keep thinking of Billy Eichner’s tweet about how spacey had done the nearly-impossible and found a bad time to come out. Trauma sucks, and fuck nazis (neo-. original flavor, or other), but none of that made him try to rape a minor (or multiple minors, from the sound of it). That is squarely in the “nothing that happened to you ever could or will justify that” category.
Extra crispy Nazi
The only good kind of nazi.
Man oh man, am I ever glad that this fucking guy changed his name to Spacey.