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Kevin Spacey to Stand Trial in U.K., Again, Over Sexual Assault Civil Claim (Report)

Earlier this year, a judge had granted the unnamed claimant "judgment in default," meaning a ruling in his favor without a trial, after Spacey's legal team missed a deadline; now the case is going to trial.

The claimant has been granted anonymity by the court, but Reuters said he is one of four complainants who separately sued Spacey in criminal cases, the trial of which ended with the actor’s acquittal last summer. Earlier this year, a judge granted the unnamed claimant in the civil case “judgment in default,” meaning a ruling in his favor without a trial, after Spacey’s legal team missed a deadline to formally submit a defense. The news of another U.K. trial follows the airing this weekend of a new Channel 4 documentary that offered a “forensic look” at the Oscar winner’s rise to stardom and his alleged sexual misconduct.

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