Kevin Spacey is refusing to leave his Baltimore home weeks after it was sold at a foreclosure auction, the property's buyer says.
The “House of Cards” actor's oceanfront mansion was targeted for foreclosure after he defaulted on his $20,000 monthly mortgage payments, according to the… Flag of Baltimore reported. It was an account that was difficult to settle after a series of sexual assault allegations as of 2017, leading to his fall from grace in Hollywood.
Last month, Bethesda, Maryland-based real estate investor Sam Asgari purchased the property for $3.24 million. But weeks after the sale, Spacey still hasn't vacated the property, Asgari told the Baltimore news outlet on Wednesday.
“At this point, he is refusing to leave,” Asgari said, adding that he was forced to negotiate with Spacey’s lawyers. “He is asking for six months to leave the property without paying anything.”
The two-time Oscar winner's attorney, Edward U. Lee III, has denied the allegations, telling the outlet: “Mr. Asgari's allegation is false.”
Lee did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.
Spacey originally purchased the 9,000-square-foot property for $5.65 million in 2017. It became his primary residence after he was fired from “House of Cards” that year.
Asgari, who gained attention earlier this year after buying the home where famed Maryland financier Johns Hopkins grew up, sealed the purchase of Spacey's home with a $100,000 deposit. Once the courts ratify the sale, he could begin eviction proceedings against Spacey.
Drowning in debt and unable to pay his legal fees, Spacey said Piers Morgan In a June interview, he said he was forced to move his belongings into storage.
“I'm not quite sure where I'm going to live now,” he said. According to the Daily MailSpacey also put his London penthouse up for sale earlier this month.
Spacey, one of the earliest figures involved in the “MeToo” movement, was first accused of sexual harassment in 2017 by Broadway actor Anthony Rapp, who claimed Spacey made a sexual advance toward him in the 1980s, when Spacey was 26 and Rapp was 14.
Space answered On social media, he said he did not remember the incident. “But if I behaved as he describes, [I] “I owe him the most sincere apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior and I regret the feelings he described having carried with him all these years,” he added.
Shortly after Rapp’s allegations became known, Spacey was fired from Netflix’s “House of Cards” and removed from Ridley Scott’s film project “All the Money in the World.”
The actor has since faced allegations of sexual assault and misconduct from numerous other men, all of which he has denied, leading to legal proceedings in the US and UK. He also lost a $31 million judgment to “House of Cards” production company MRC for violating the company's sexual harassment policy. The Times previously reported.
In 2022, Spacey was found not guilty in the federal civil lawsuit Rapp filed against him, and last year, a London jury acquitted him of nine criminal sexual assault charges.
He still faces a separate civil lawsuit from one of the four UK plaintiffs, with a trial date set for summer 2025, according to The telegraph.
“Spacey Unmasked,” a two-part documentary aired by British television network Channel 4 in May, presented new allegations against Spacey from 10 men who were not involved in the London criminal case. The network says in the documentary that Spacey “said he had not been given sufficient time or details to respond to the testimonies in this film.”
Spacey refuted that claim in unknown:“Over the past week, I have repeatedly requested that @Channel4 give me more than 7 days to respond to allegations made against me dating back 48 years and provide me with sufficient details to investigate these matters. Channel 4 has refused on the grounds that it considers asking for a response within 7 days to new, anonymous and non-specific allegations to be a 'fair opportunity' for me to refute any allegations made against me.
“I will not sit idly by while a dying network makes a one-sided ‘documentary’ about me in its desperate bid to boost my ratings. There is a proper channel to handle the allegations against me and it is not Channel 4,” he continued. “Every time I have been given the time and a proper forum to defend myself, the allegations have failed under scrutiny and I have been exonerated.”
Following the documentary's release, actors Liam Neeson and Sharon Stone came to Spacey's defense.
“Kevin is a good man and a man of character. Personally, he is greatly needed and missed by our industry,” Neeson said. The telegraph.
“I can’t wait to see Kevin back at work,” Stone told the outlet. “He’s a genius. He’s so graceful and funny, generous to a fault, and knows more about our craft than most of us.”
