Kevin Spacey must face sexual abuse lawsuit in New York, judge says

Court rejects actor's push to dismiss case of Anthony Rapp, who alleges sexual advance occurred when he was 14

A US federal judge has rejected Kevin Spacey's bid to dismiss a civil lawsuit in which a fellow actor, Anthony Rapp, accused the Oscar winner of making an unwanted sexual advance during a party at Spacey's Manhattan home in 1986, when Rapp was 14.

The US district judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan said on Monday there was a genuine factual dispute about whether the now 62-year-old Spacey had forcibly touched Rapp's intimate parts" to gratify his own sexual desire.