Amid the fallout from the sexual-assault allegations against him, Kevin Spacey will now not receive a planned award from the International Television Academy.
Deadline reports the academy released a statement on Tuesday (local time), saying it will not honour the House of Cards actor as planned, "in light of recent events".
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"The International Academy has announced today... it will not honour Kevin Spacey with the 2017 International Emmy Founders Award," the statement reads.
It was announced in June that the two-time Oscar winner would be presented with the award. According to the academy, the award is presented to "an individual who crosses cultural boundaries to touch humanity". It was to be handed out at the 45th International Emmy Awards Gala on November 20 in New York City.
The news comes in the wake of sexual-assault allegations against Spacey by Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp, who alleges Spacey groped him on a bed at a party in 1986, when he was 14 and Spacey was 26.
Rapp says Spacey picked him up and carried him to bed after the party, in what he believed was an attempt to "seduce" him. Spacey is then accused of lying on top of Rapp, who tried - ultimately successfully - to "squirm away".
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