Kevin Spacey to get charity award at Cannes
Actor Kevin Spacey leaves the US District Courthouse on October 06, 2022 in New York City. Spacey’s trial began today with jury selection after allegations of alleged sexual misconduct surfaced in 2017 by actor Anthony Rapp. Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
CANNES, France — Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey is to be given a lifetime’s achievement award on the fringes of the Cannes film festival Tuesday.
The Better World Fund told AFP on Sunday that the actor — who was acquitted of nine cases of alleged sex offenses in Britain last year — will be recognized “for his decades of artistic brilliance” at a charity gala in the French Riviera resort.
A New York court dismissed a $40 million civil sexual misconduct lawsuit against the “Usual Suspects” star in 2022.
But earlier this month new claims of inappropriate sexual behavior against men emerged in a British television documentary, “Spacey Unmasked”.
In it, 10 men not involved in the UK court case involving Spacey accuse him of behaving inappropriately towards them.
But the 65-year-old, whose stellar career was derailed by the earlier claims, denied any wrongdoing.
Spacey was last on the red carpet at Cannes in 2016.
