A young man who says Kevin Spacey groped him in a Nantucket bar in 2016 has dropped his lawsuit against the Oscar-winning actor, according to LA Times.
Mitchell Garabedian, a lawyer for the man, announced in an email Friday that the suit filed June 26 in Nantucket Superior Court has been voluntarily dismissed. No reason was provided either by Garabedian or in the court filing. Garabedian said he would have no further comment.
Garabedian’s client, the son of Boston TV anchor Heather Unruh, alleged that Spacey got him drunk and sexually assaulted him at the Club Car restaurant where the then-18-year old man worked.
Spacey still faces a criminal charge and had pleaded not guilty. The criminal case has centred on the cellphone used by the 18-year-old the night of the alleged groping, according to CBS. The defence has said it needs to recover text messages to support Spacey’s innocence.
Nantucket District Court Judge Thomas Barrett has ordered the man to hand the phone over to the defence, but his lawyer said they cannot find it. The judge has given them until Monday to produce the phone.
