“I literally have no home.” Kevin Spacey said that to The Telegraph in an interview published November 19, and he blamed the money. He lost his house in Maryland, he said, “because the costs over these last seven years have been astronomical. I’ve had very little coming in and everything going out.”
These days he lives in hotels and Airbnbs and goes where the work is. His belongings are in storage. Spacey, 66, did not file for bankruptcy, but he said it “was discussed, but it never got to that point.”
He talked about it while trying to get back into the business. A jury in London found him not guilty on nine charges in 2023, and he recently performed a variety show in Greece on November 15. He told the paper he is “in touch with some extremely powerful people who want to put me back to work.” What the industry seems to be waiting for, he said, is “to be given permission by someone who is in some position of enormous respect and authority.”
The cases
The allegations became public in 2017, when actor Anthony Rapp said Spacey made a sexual advance toward him at a party in 1986, when Rapp was 14 and Spacey 27. Three other accusers from the United Kingdom followed in the weeks after. Spacey said on Twitter at the time that he did not remember the encounter, but that if he had behaved as Rapp described, he owed him “the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior.”
Rapp sued in 2020. In 2022 a federal jury in New York found Spacey not liable on all counts, and the court ordered Rapp to pay Spacey $39,089 toward his litigation costs. A year later came the London verdict.
The professional damage had come first. Netflix cut ties and removed him from the last season of “House of Cards.” Director Ridley Scott, who had already finished filming “All the Money in the World” with Spacey, replaced him and reshot his scenes. “Sometimes you’ve got to lay down the law. You have to!” Scott told Entertainment Weekly in 2017.
Spacey told The Telegraph he now sees the period as “incredibly positive” because it gave him a chance “to stop, look at my life, ask questions.” He said some of those questions were about accountability “for where I made mistakes.”
Sources
- Kevin Spacey Says He Has "No Home" After Sexual Misconduct Allegations
- Kevin Spacey sexual misconduct allegations
