double Oscar winner Kevin Spacey is due to appear in court to formally plead charges of sexual assault from 17 years ago.
The former Hollywood star, 62, has already said he “firmly denies” the allegations made by three men who are now in their thirties and forties.
He is listed to appear in Court One of the Old Bailey under his full name Kevin Spacey Fowler for a case management plea and hearing for Mr Justice Wall.
The American actor is out on unconditional bail and is expected to attend the central… London court in person rather than via video link.
He faces four charges of assault and one charge of causing a person to engage in invasive sexual activity without consent.
The alleged offenses allegedly took place in London and Gloucestershire between 2005 and 2013.
Spacey was the artistic director of the Old Vic Theater in London at the time.
The House Of Cards star has an address in Waterloo, South London, but his home is in the US, where he has family and a nine-year-old dog.
Last month, Spacey’s attorney Patrick Gibbs QC said in an initial trial at the Magistrates’ Court that his client “denies all forms of crime in this case”.
Gibbs said Spacey had returned to the UK “to establish his innocence” and “to get on with his life”.
The charges are: two assaults on a man, now in his 40s, in March 2005 in London; assaulting a man, now in his thirties, inducing him to engage in invasive sexual activity without consent, in London in August 2008; and assault of a man, now in his thirties, in April 2013 in Gloucestershire.
The Crown Prosecution Service cleared the charges against him in May, but Spacey could not be formally charged until he traveled to the UK last month.
Spacey is known for starring roles in American Beauty and The Usual Suspects.
He was Artistic Director of the Old Vic between 2004 and 2015.