| As Jury Hears Rapp Seethed
at Spacey's Rise What of Flights
on Epstein's Lolita Express?
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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LITERARY SDNY,
Oct 6 – It was the first day
of the Anthony Rapp versus
Kevin Spacey trial, and damn
if it didn't actually start on
the first day.
By 2 pm the
jury was selected and Rapp's
lawyer Peter Saghir showed the
juror a photo of 14 year-old
Anthony, and described him
retreating to Spacey's bedroom
since all the party attendees
were adults. Soon they were
gone and Spacey, glassy-eyed,
was on top of him, grinding
against his hip.
Less than
an hour later Spacey's
attack-dog lawyer Jennifer
Keller was telling a different
story. Rapp had known that
Spacey didn't have an
erection, she said, and Rapp
knew all about those.
She said Rapp was
seething with resentment as
Spacey's career took off:
American Beauty, House of
Cards, Rapp couldn't take it.
So he repeated again and again
that he had been sexually
assaulted. But hadn't he
willingly done to the
Limelight club?
But if
Spacey's lawyer could tell the
jury about Rapp's actions in
the years since 1986,
including throwing pencils at
a video screen streaming
Spacey accepting yet another
reward, couldn't they also
know what Spacey had gotten up
to as he rose, up in Jeffrey
Epstein's plane with Bill
Clinton?
Kurt
Wheelock, who had been
reporting on the case from the
beginning, picking up steam
when Spacey appeared as a
minor character in the
periphery of the Ghislaine
Maxwell trial, riding on the
Lolita Express, wondered if
Keller would take this
approach if Rapp were a woman,
if this was the more
conventional Me Too case.
There was
other echoes of Ghislaine's
trial, Maximum Maxwell, more
on Patreon here.
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