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The Los Angeles District Attorney's office on Tuesday said it would not prosecute actor Kevin Spacey on a 1992 sexual assault accusation as it fell outside the California statute of limitations.
The District Attorney's office also said it would not charge actor Steven Seagal and television comedy star Anthony Anderson over two other sexual assault accusations.
The office said, the 1993 accusations against action star Seagal fell outside the statute of limitations, while Anderson's accuser declined to be interviewed and prosecution was declined due to lack of evidence.
In July, Anderson denied wrongdoing.
In April, the Spacey case, involving an adult male, was presented to Los Angeles prosecutors and had been under review. The origin and nature of the accusation were not unveiled.
The District Attorney's office said in a charge evaluation sheet released on Tuesday that the allegation was outside the statue of limitations and that prosecution had been declined.
Spacey became embroiled in controversy in 2017 when actor Anthony Rapp accused in 1986 him of trying to seduce him when Rapp was 14.
He apologized for any inappropriate behavior with Rapp but has not commented since and has stepped away from public life.
The Los Angeles District Attorney's office said in August that it was reviewing a second sexual assault accusation against Spacey, but declined to give details. The case is still under review.
According to reports, over 30 men have said they were victims of unwanted sexual advances by Spacey, including 20 people who came forward during an investigation by London's Old Vic theater, where Spacey was artistic director for 12 years.
The Oscar-winning star of "American Beauty," Spacey, is one of the dozens of men in the politics and entertainment industry who have been accused of sexual misconduct in the past 10 months, partly as a consequence of the #MeToo social media movement.
Earlier this year, he was dropped from the Netflix television series "House of Cards" and erased from the film "All the Money in the World."
By Sowmya Sangam
