{"id":2311,"date":"2017-11-05T18:01:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T18:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/11\/05\/harry-dreyfuss-accuses-kevin-spacey-of-groping-him-when-he-was-18-my-mind-went-blank\/"},"modified":"2017-11-05T18:01:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T18:01:26","slug":"harry-dreyfuss-accuses-kevin-spacey-of-groping-him-when-he-was-18-my-mind-went-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/11\/05\/harry-dreyfuss-accuses-kevin-spacey-of-groping-him-when-he-was-18-my-mind-went-blank\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Dreyfuss Accuses Kevin Spacey of Groping Him When He Was 18: \u2018My Mind Went Blank\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/harry-dreyfuss\/\" id=\"auto-tag_harry-dreyfuss\">Harry Dreyfuss<\/a>, Richard Dreyfuss&#8217; son and an actor in his own right, has accused <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/kevin-spacey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kevin-spacey\">Kevin Spacey<\/a> of groping him when he was 18 years old. His account was written for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/harrydreyfuss2\/actor-harry-dreyfuss-when-i-was-18-kevin-spacey-groped-me?utm_term=.gcr4egEVQ#.rgPepl7yY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Buzzfeed<\/a>, which also published Anthony Rapp&#8217;s similar allegations last weekend. In it, he alleges that the incident took place in 2008, when Spacey was directing his father in a play at London&#8217;s Old Vic.<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/11\/house-of-cards-kevin-spacey-killed-off-1201894170\/\" title=\"Netflix Fires Kevin Spacey From \u2018House of Cards,\u2019 Which May Kill Off His Character in Response to Sexual Harassment Allegations\">Netflix Fires Kevin Spacey From \u2018House of Cards,\u2019 Which May Kill Off His Character in Response to Sexual Harassment Allegations<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt happened one night when the three of us were alone in Kevin\u2019s apartment rehearsing my father\u2019s lines,\u201d Dreyfuss writes. \u201cMy father didn\u2019t see, and I didn\u2019t tell him about the incident for many years. Instead, I spent the next nine years telling people the story at parties for laughs.\u201d The reason for humor, he says, is that \u201ctelling the story as a joke ensured that this was a story I could <em>own<\/em>. If I could laugh at it, then surely I was not a victim.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He doesn\u2019t find it funny anymore, however, and says that the numerous stories coming out about the Oscar winner suggest that \u201cKevin Spacey is a sexual predator.\u201d Dreyfuss writes that, as he and his father were reading lines in Spacey\u2019s apartment, Spacey sat next to him on the couch and placed his hand on his thigh. Dreyfuss\u2019 father was too engrossed in what he was doing to notice Spacey\u2019s behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/11\/kevin-spacey-difficult-people-jokes-video-1201894178\/\" title=\"Every Wildly Inappropriate Kevin Spacey Joke \u2018Difficult People\u2019 Ever Made \u2014 Watch\">Every Wildly Inappropriate Kevin Spacey Joke \u2018Difficult People\u2019 Ever Made \u2014 Watch<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOver the course of about 20 seconds, centimeter by centimeter, Kevin crawled his hand from my thigh over toward my crotch. My mind went blank. Suddenly, he had completed his journey and now he had all of me in his hand.\u201d He doesn&#8217;t remember exactly how the night ended, but he &#8220;couldn&#8217;t stop thinking about it&#8221; afterward and it&#8217;s taken him years to fully process the experience. Read his full account <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/harrydreyfuss2\/actor-harry-dreyfuss-when-i-was-18-kevin-spacey-groped-me?utm_term=.gcr4egEVQ#.rgPepl7yY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link sign-up\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Sign Up:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/indiewire.com\/email\" title=\"Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.\">Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Dreyfuss, Richard Dreyfuss&#8217; son and an actor in his own right, has accused Kevin Spacey of groping him when he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-Bh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}