TURIN, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Kevin Spacey picked up a profession award in Italy on Monday, regardless of controversy over the intercourse crime allegations which have tarnished the fame of the Oscar-winning American actor.
The Museum of Cinema in Turin mentioned it handed the prize in recognition of Spacey’s “private aesthetic and authorial contribution to the event of the artwork of drama.”
For the event, the 63-year-old was invited to talk on the museum.
“I’m absolutely blessed and grateful and humbled and my coronary heart could be very full tonight towards the Museum of Cinema for having had le palle (the center) to ask me tonight,” he mentioned.
Spacey gained Oscars for performances in “American Magnificence” and “The Regular Suspects,” however his profession largely ended just a few years in the past, after greater than 20 males accused him of sexual misconduct.
Within the run-up to the award ceremony, the Turin-based La Stampa newspaper ran an editorial headlined “Italy, land of plenary indulgence”.
Final week, Spacey appeared by video hyperlink earlier than a court docket in London, pleading not responsible to a number of prices of sexual misconduct towards one man about 20 years in the past.
The costs have been joined to an earlier five-count indictment associated to alleged intercourse offences towards three males between 2005 and 2013, for which Spacey beforehand professed his innocence.
In one other case that performed out in america, Spacey defeated in October a sexual abuse declare introduced towards him by actor Anthony Rapp.
Reporting by Alex Fraser; Writing by Alvise Armellini; Modifying by Richard Chang
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