Anthony Rapp has taken the stand.
The Rent actor testified all the way through the Oct. 11 all the way through Kevin Spacey's sexual misconduct trial, the place he set the file instantly on the reason he determined to come ahead with allegations in opposition to the actor, consistent with NBC News.
Back in 2017, Rapp accused Spacey of performing in a sexually irrelevant way around him when Rapp used to be 14 years old. During the 2022 trial, Rapp's lawyer said that the actor was moved to convey the allegation to a BuzzFeed News reporter after Rapp was uncovered to an article the place Lupita Nyong'o made a sexual harassment allegation towards Harvey Weinstein. Harvey has denied all allegations of misconduct.
However, Spacey's attorneys introduced forth a screenshot of a textual content message dialog between Rapp and a BuzzFeed News reporter, which, as NBC News studies, reputedly printed that Rapp had come ahead with this allegation on Oct. Eleven 2017, 8 days earlier than the piece involving Nyong'o and Weinstein was published on Oct. 19, 2017.
Per NBC News, Rapp wrote in the textual content message chain, "I am wanting to speak out about someone else very powerful in the industry."
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