Kevin Spacey calls for release of Epstein files: ‘Truth can't come soon enough'
'Release the Epstein files. All of them,' tweeted Spacey, 65, who once flew on Epstein's 'Lolita Express' jet and posed on a Buckingham Palace throne with the pedophile's madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.
'For those of us with nothing to fear, the truth can't come soon enough,' stated 'The Usual Suspects' star.
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'I hate to make this about me — but the media already has,' he said
4 In this photo from The Telegraph, Ghislaine Maxwell and Kevin Spacey sit on thrones during a Buckingham Palace visit with former President Bill Clinton circa 2002.
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The Academy Award winner joined public clamor demanding the Department of Justice follow through on its promise to release troves of documents related to its investigation into the late pedophile, his associates and his death.
Spacey previously addressed his connection to Epstein and the pedophile's madam, Maxwell, whom he was pictured with in 2002 in the throne room at Buckingham Palace after they were allegedly invited there by disgraced Epstein associate Prince Andrew.
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He claimed he had not met the pair before they flew to London with President Bill Clinton on Epstein's private jet after a humanitarian event in Africa with 'young girls.'
'I didn't know him. I have never spent any time with him. I was with the Clinton Foundation people, that's who I was with,' he told Piers Morgan.
4 Kevin Spacey spoke to Piers Morgan about his connection to Epstein last year.
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'This Maxwell woman, she was one of many people to sit down next to me in that throne room. I have no relationship with her. I had no relationship with him. I mean he's not my friend. I am not a confidant. I've never spent time with him,' he continued.
Spacey confirmed that there were 'young girls' on board the plane but claimed he never visited Epstein's island.
'I never went to Jeffrey Epstein's island. I did not know him and I never saw him or her after that morning at Buckingham Palace. He didn't even come to Buckingham Palace, she was only there,' he said.
Spacey was also among the elites named in a trove of previously sealed court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein that were released in January.
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4 Epstein's 2019 death in a New York City jail has sparked years of conspiracy theories.
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The Trump administration had promised to release the full files from Epstein's federal investigation as conspiracies swirled over the financier's associates and how he died after he was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell in 2019.
But the Attorney General Pam Bondi last week announced that the government would not be releasing the records after all — with the President on Wednesday dismissing the outrcy for the documents the 'Epstein HOAX' as his MAGA-base demands answers.
4 The late financier's death was ruled a suicide by hanging.
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Trump spent months vowing to release all of the government's findings on Epstein and his associates — even publishing 'The Epstein Files: Phase 1 in February, although next to nothing new was revealed in those files.
Spacey was accused of committing sex crimes against four men between 2004 and 2013 while he was serving as artistic director at London's historic Old Vic Theatre. He was ultimately acquitted of all nine counts in July 2023.
The 'American Beauty' star also won a sexual abuse case against alleged victim and fellow actor Anthony Rapp in 2022.
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