Kevin Spacey has been discovered not responsible of committing sexual offences towards 4 males within the UK between 2001 and 2013.

The 64-year-old Oscar winner cried as he was cleared after a trial which began on the finish of June, throughout which he was described as a "sexual bully" by the prosecution.

On his birthday, he nodded at jurors as they left courtroom, crying and wiping his face with a tissue, earlier than letting out an enormous sigh and thanking courtroom workers.

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Sky News understands he left the constructing through a facet exit, avoiding the media ready for him outdoors.

Giving proof, Spacey fought again tears as he instructed how his world "exploded" when different allegations first emerged towards him within the US in 2017.

"There was a rush to judgment and before the first question was asked or answered I lost my job, I lost my reputation, I lost everything in a matter of days," he instructed jurors.

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Spacey, who was creative director at The Old Vic theatre in London between 2004 and 2015, was accused of drugging and performing a intercourse act on a former aspiring actor whereas he slept, and of a number of assaults on one other man - a driver who claimed the actor grabbed his crotch so onerous on one event that he "almost come off the road".

Another man claimed the Hollywood actor subjected him to a "barrage" of "vile" sexual abuse earlier than grabbing his crotch "like a cobra" at a West End occasion, whereas the fourth stated the Hollywood star kissed his neck and instructed him to "be cool", once more earlier than grabbing his crotch.

Spacey, finest recognized for movies together with American Beauty and The Usual Suspects and for political drama collection House Of Cards, vehemently denied all of the allegations.

A jury at Southwark Crown Court in London cleared him of all the fees after deliberating for 12 hours and 26 minutes.

The decide, Mr Justice Wall, stated jurors will need to have felt like they had been in a "goldfish bowl" due to the extent of curiosity within the case.

Denying the separate allegations by every of the lads, Spacey instructed the courtroom:

• He shared an "intimate" consensual second with a former aspiring actor who claimed the star drugged him and carried out a intercourse act on him whereas he was asleep in his flat;
• He had a "somewhat intimate" relationship with one other complainant, however denied assaulting him in a "violent, aggressive, painful way" - and stated it felt like he had been stabbed within the again when he realized of the claims;
• That allegations by a person he met in a West End theatre within the mid-2000s had been "madness" and the incident described "never happened";
• That he could have "made a pass" at one other complainant however was "happy that he testified that the moment he told me he was not interested, I stopped".

His defence staff had labelled the prosecution's case towards him as "weak" - accusing a few of the complainants of being after cash.

The actor instructed the courtroom he was a "flirt" and had been "open" about occasions he had been "promiscuous", including: "It doesn't make me a bad person."

He later instructed jurors he discovered it "harder to trust people because of who I was", as a result of his fame and standing.

The actor additionally stated he felt below stress to come back out publicly as homosexual after allegations of sexual misconduct had been first levelled at him.

After he was cleared, the Crown Prosecution Service stated prosecutors "respect the decision of the court" as a crowd gathered outdoors.

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