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Kevin Spacey to Get Charity Award in Cannes Despite New Scandal

  • Kevin Spacey accepted a lifetime achievement award at a charity gala held alongside the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, 2025-05-20.
  • The award followed Spacey's 2023 acquittal of nine sex offence charges and dismissal of a 2022 $40 million civil lawsuit, though new allegations appeared in a 2024 documentary.
  • Spacey, who denied wrongdoing, has faced accusations from 10 men and a pending High Court case by Ruari Cannon alleging inappropriate conduct during Spacey's Old Vic Theatre tenure.
  • The Better World Fund said it invited Spacey because courts cleared him and praised his decades of artistic work, while Cannes festival maintains a no-tolerance policy under #MeToo pressure.
  • Spacey's award signals a controversial step in his public rehabilitation, as the Cannes festival declined to comment amid ongoing scrutiny of sexual misconduct cases.
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Variety broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Sunday, May 18, 2025.
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