Anthony Rapp has taken the stand.
The RentActors testified during the Oct. 11, during Kevin SpaceyThe sexual misconduct trial in which he defended the actor against allegations of him making sexual abuse, was per NBC News
.Rapp had accused Spacey in 2017 of being sexually insensitive around him at 14 years old. Rapp’s lawyer claimed that Spacey was moved to make the claim during the 2022 trial. BuzzFeed News reporter after Rapp was exposed to an article where Lupita Nyong’o made a sexual harassment allegation against Harvey Weinstein. Harvey denies all allegations of misconduct.
Spacey’s attorneys provided a screenshot from a text-message conversation between Rapp & a BuzzFeed News reporter, which, as NBC News reports, seemingly revealed that Rapp had come forward with this allegation on Oct. 11 2017, eight days before the piece involving Nyong’o and Weinstein was published on Oct. 19, 2017.
According to NBC News Rapp sent the message chain via text message. “I am wanting to speak out about someone else very powerful in the industry.”
