Overview
- Mrs Justice Christina Lambert provisionally scheduled a three‑week window in October 2026 for the three civil actions at the High Court.
- Lawyers will return to determine trial format, with claimants seeking a single combined hearing and the defense arguing for separate trials due to differing circumstances.
- Spacey, 66, maintains he did nothing wrong, has formally denied two of the suits, and has not yet filed a defense in the third filed in September.
- The allegations span 2000 to 2013 and are tied to Spacey’s Old Vic years, including LNP’s claim of about a dozen incidents from 2000–2005 and GHI’s 2008 claim first filed in 2022 and paused during criminal proceedings.
- Actor Ruari Cannon has waived anonymity, alleges groping at a 2013 Old Vic party, and is also suing the theatre; two other claimants were involved in Spacey’s 2023 criminal trial, in which he was acquitted, and he previously prevailed in U.S. civil proceedings.