“What disgusts me about Kevin [Spacey] was how safe he did feel. He knew he could fondle me in a room with my father and that I wouldn’t say a word. And I didn’t,” Harry Dreyfuss wrote in a column for Buzzfeed News.
The son of Richard Dreyfuss, came forward to share his own experience with Spacey, who has been accused of harassment and assault by over 10 men and growing.
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In a guest column for Buzzfeed News, the first publication to surface sexual misconduct allegations against Spacey, the actor revealed that he was inappropriately groped while his father was present in the room. Dreyfuss claims the incident took place in 2008, when Spacey was directing his father Richard Dreyfuss in the play Complicit at London’s Old Vic theater. He was 18 years old at the time.
“It happened one night when the three of us were alone in Kevin’s apartment rehearsing my father’s lines. My father didn’t see, and I didn’t tell him about the incident for many years,” he said. “Instead, I spent the next nine years telling people the story at parties for laughs. … He added, “Kevin Spacey is a sexual predator. But I still never thought talking about it seriously was ever an option.”
Dreyfuss wrote that as a shy teenager, he admired Spacey and mistook some of his advances as friendly behavior. Dreyfuss only became suspicious of Spacey when he sat down next to him and placed his hand on his thigh as the three of them went over the script.
“It took that long because it just never occurred to me that Kevin would be interested in me in the first place. He was an adult man, a hero of mine, my dad’s boss, none of which were categories on my radar for sexual interactions,” the actor said. “Besides, I thought, Surely he can’t be coming onto me like this right in front of my dad. But his hand stayed there.”