Kevin Spacey testified in a New York courtroom Monday that he never made a sexual pass at the actor Anthony Rapp, who has sued, claiming the Academy Award-winning actor tried to take him to bed when he was 14.

Identifying himself as B次元官网网址淜evin Spacey Fowler,B次元官网网址� the actor was asked about RappB次元官网网址檚 claims that a then-26-year-old Spacey picked him up like a groom does a bride after a 1986 party and put him on his bed before lying on top of him.

Rapp testified earlier in the trial that he squirmed out from underneath Spacey in the fully clothed encounter before fleeing the apartment, only to have Spacey follow him to the door and ask if he was sure he wanted to leave.

B次元官网网址淭hey are not true,B次元官网网址� Spacey said of the allegations.

Then he was asked if he has been private about his personal life over his career.

B次元官网网址淚 work in a very complicated family dynamic,B次元官网网址� he said, saying rants by his white supremacist and neo-Nazi father when he was a youngster led him to hate bigotry and intolerance.

Spacey said his fatherB次元官网网址檚 mind was likely damaged during unemployment resulting from an unsuccessful quest to be a creative writer.

B次元官网网址淢y father was a white supremacist and neo-Nazi,B次元官网网址� Spacey said. B次元官网网址淚t meant that my siblings and I were forced to listen to hours and hours of my father lecturing us about his beliefs.B次元官网网址�

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Spacey called it B次元官网网址渉umiliating and terrifying when friends came over to the houseB次元官网网址� because he was never sure what his father might say to them or to him.

B次元官网网址淓verything about what was happening in that house was something I had to keep to myself. We never, ever, talked about it. I have never talked about these things publicly ever,B次元官网网址� he said.

As Spacey became interested in theater, he said, he endured the screams of his father who B次元官网网址渦sed to yell at me at the idea that I might be gay.B次元官网网址�

SpaceyB次元官网网址檚 testimony began two hours after Judge Lewis A. Kaplan threw out a claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress after lawyers for Rapp finished their presentation of evidence. Kaplan said elements of the claim duplicate RappB次元官网网址檚 claim that he was a victim of assault and battery.

SpaceyB次元官网网址檚 lawyer argued for dismissal of the case on the grounds that RappB次元官网网址檚 attorneys had failed to prove his claims.

Kaplan said the trial can proceed with assault and battery claims asserted by Rapp, a 50-year-old regular on B次元官网网址淪tar Trek: DiscoveryB次元官网网址� on television. He was part of the original Broadway cast of B次元官网网址淩ent.B次元官网网址�

an Oscar-winning actor popular on the Netflix series B次元官网网址淗ouse of CardsB次元官网网址� when claims by Rapp and others in 2017 abruptly derailed his career.

Rapp was performing in B次元官网网址淧recious SonsB次元官网网址� on Broadway in 1986 when he met Spacey.

several days earlier in the trial, which entered its third week on Monday.

B次元官网网址擳om Hays And Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press