{"id":2480904,"date":"2026-06-29T19:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2480904"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:18:14","slug":"kevin-spacey-feels-much-more-welcome-in-hollywood-after-sexual-assault-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kevin-spacey-feels-much-more-welcome-in-hollywood-after-sexual-assault-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Spacey &#8216;feels much more welcome&#8217; in Hollywood after sexual assault trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Kevin Spacey said he believes his career is back on the rise in Hollywood after he <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2017\/10\/30\/actor-claims-kevin-spacey-made-sexual-advance-toward-him-when-he-was-14\/\">faced dozens of sexual misconduct and harassment allegations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel much more welcomed, and I think that things are moving in the direction that we hoped they were moving in,\u201d the \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d actor <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ot0C5RA6tDk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said on Bill Maher\u2019s \u201cClub Random\u201d podcast<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Spacey, 66, noted that he had won \u201cin every court we\u2019ve gone into with a jury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are certain cases where part of something is true, but it\u2019s been rethought, it\u2019s been redesigned, or it\u2019s been entirely made up,\u201d he claimed. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Kevin Spacey (seen above) said he feels more \u201cwelcomed\u201d in Hollywood after having faced dozens of sexual misconduct and harassment allegations. <span class=\"credit\">YouTube\/Club Random Podcast<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cI think that things are moving in the direction that we hoped they were moving in,\u201d the \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d actor said on Bill Maher\u2019s \u201cClub Random\u201d podcast Monday (as seen above). <span class=\"credit\">YouTube\/Club Random Podcast<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cCertainly in the case of Anthony Rapp, which is a case that we <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/20\/kevin-spacey-cleared-by-jury-in-civil-sex-abuse-case\/\">won in federal court<\/a> in New York,\u201d Spacey shared, referring to Rapp\u2019s claim that the actor allegedly <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2017\/10\/30\/actor-claims-kevin-spacey-made-sexual-advance-toward-him-when-he-was-14\/\">made an unwanted sexual advance <\/a>towards the Broadway star when he was only 14.<\/p>\n<p>Maher, 70, told his guest that he believed some of the claims against him were valid. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to lie to you, I go by numbers with scandals. If it\u2019s like one person, I\u2019m always like, \u2018I don\u2019t know if I wasn\u2019t in the room,\u2019\u201d the comedian said to Spacey. <\/p>\n<p>However, in the \u201cAmerican Beauty\u201d star\u2019s case, Maher said there was \u201ctoo much smoke to be no fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Spacey (seen above) noted that he has won \u201cin every court we\u2019ve gone into with a jury.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">YouTube\/Club Random Podcast<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The \u201cAmerican Beauty\u201d star (seen above) admitted that some of his behavior had gone too far. <span class=\"credit\">YouTube\/Club Random Podcast<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Spacey confessed that some of his behavior had gone too far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never said there was no fire. It just wasn\u2019t a raging forest fire. It was a small kitchen fire that could have been put out with an extinguisher,\u201d he told Maher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hit on a lot of guys,\u201d the actor added.<\/p>\n<p>Maher suggested Spacey \u201cshould have gotten some punishment\u201d but also claimed the \u201cSeven\u201d actor \u201cpaid a lot\u201d for his crimes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cWhen people actually start to hear the facts, understand what we won in courts, I think people now look at this and think, maybe nine years has been enough,\u201d he shared. (Pictured: Spacey leaving court in 2022.) <span class=\"credit\">Alec Tabak<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Spacey (seen above at the Cannes Film Festival 2026) has faced numerous sexual misconduct and assault allegations since 2017. <span class=\"credit\">Blondet Eliot\/ABACA\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI feel less in jail than I did,\u201d Spacey said. \u201cWhen people actually start to hear the facts, understand what we won in courts, I think people now look at this and think, maybe nine years has been enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I had been a sports figure, I would have been benched for seven games,\u201d he added. \u201cIf you\u2019re hitting home runs, they want you on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spacey faced numerous sexual misconduct and assault allegations beginning in late 2017. He has vehemently denied all allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Rapp <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2020\/09\/09\/actor-anthony-rapp-sues-kevin-spacey-for-alleged-sexual-assault\/\">filed a $40 million civil lawsuit<\/a> for sexual assault and battery; however, in October 2022, a federal jury found Spacey not liable on all counts.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The actor (seen arriving at court in 2022) vehemently declared his innocence.  <span class=\"credit\">Alec Tabak<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>In March, Spacey (seen above in 2022) settled out of court with men who claimed the disgraced actor sexually assaulted them. <span class=\"credit\">Alec Tabak<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When the allegations surfaced, Spacey was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2017\/11\/03\/netflix-officially-cuts-all-ties-with-kevin-spacey\/\">fired from Netflix\u2019s \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d<\/a> and replaced in \u201cAll the Money in the World.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, a London jury <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/07\/26\/kevin-spacey-acquitted-of-all-nine-sexual-offence-charges-in-london-trial\/\">found the \u201cUsual Suspects\u201d actor not guilty<\/a> of nine sexual offense charges, which included allegations of sexual and indecent assault and causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity between 2001 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Spacey <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/03\/19\/entertainment\/kevin-spacey-settles-out-of-court-with-3-men-over-alleged-sexual-assaults\/\">settled out of court with three men<\/a> who claimed the disgraced actor sexually assaulted them at times between 2000 and 2013.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Spacey said he believes his career is back on the rise in Hollywood after he faced dozens of sexual misconduct and harassment allegations. \u201cI feel much more welcomed, and I think that things are moving in the direction that we hoped they were moving in,\u201d the \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d actor said on Bill Maher\u2019s 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