Kevin Spacey heads to court in New York over sexual abuse allegation

Anthony Rapp has accused actor of trying to seduce him when he 14 at Spacey's Manhattan apartment in 1986

Kevin Spacey heads to court on Thursday to defend himself in a lawsuit filed by Anthony Rapp, the actor who in 2017 made the first in a string of sexual misconduct allegations that left the House of Cards star's career in tatters.

The trial, expected to last less than two weeks, will focus on an alleged encounter in New York City in 1986, when Rapp was a child actor and Spacey, then 26, was having a breakout moment on Broadway.