Kevin Spacey Pleads Not Guilty to U.K. Sexual Assault Charges, Trial Set for Next Year

Kevin Spacey has pleaded not guilty to multiple U.K. sexual assault charges.

Per the Associated Press, Spacey entered his pleas at a Central Criminal Court hearing in London on Thursday. The judge also set a start date for the subsequent trial—which is expected to last up to four weeks—for June 6 of next year.

The charges were previously reported back in May to include four counts of sexual assault against three men, as well as a charge of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.

“The CPS has authorized criminal charges against Kevin Spacey, 62, for four counts of sexual assault against three men,” Rosemary Ainslie, Head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s Special Crime Division, said in a statement at the time. “The CPS has also authorised one charge of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent. The authority to charge follows a review of the evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police in its investigation. The Crown Prosecution Service reminds all concerned that criminal proceedings against Mr Spacey are active and that he has the right to a fair trial.”

Two of the alleged sexual assaults are said to have occurred in March 2005 in London, with another assault alleged to have occurred in London in August 2008. The fourth charged alleged assault, per CPS, is said to have occurred in Gloucestershire in April 2013. The count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent stems from an alleged incident in August 2008, also in London.