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Spacey accused of groping Belfast barman

Kris Nixon says he was groped by Kevin Spacey
Kris Nixon says he was groped by Kevin Spacey Kris Nixon says he was groped by Kevin Spacey

A BELFAST man has claimed he was groped and propositioned by disgraced Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey.

Former barman Kris Nixon, who blogs under the name Belfast Barman, says he was approached by Spacey while working in a central London pub ten years ago during the star's stint as artistic director at the Old Vic.

Mr Nixon (30), who has since returned to his native Belfast, claims Spacey groped him twice in a week and told him he would perform a sex act "better than your girlfriend".

The first incident occurred at a play after-party in 2007 as the barman sat beside the House of Cards star on a sofa.

"He looked at me for a weirdly uncomfortable length of time, then grabbed my d*** over my trousers," he told The Sun.

Spacey then made the seedy comment to the 20-year-old, whose girlfriend had left him alone on the couch while getting a drink.

He claimed the actor then pestered him again a week later after returning to the bar where he worked with some of his ­theatrical crew.

Spacey is alleged to have followed him into a store room, put his hand under the waistband of Kris’s trousers, grabbed hold of his belt and said: "I can make it up".

It is the latest in a string of sex claims about 58 year-old Spacey.

In the latest in a series of accusations levelled at Spacey, the son of actor Richard Dreyfuss has accused him of sexual misconduct, while his father was in the same room.

Harry Dreyfuss, who was 18 at the time of the incident, alleged the encounter happened in London in 2008 while his father was rehearsing for the play Complicit, which was being directed by Spacey during his tenure at the Old Vic.

“It happened one night when the three of us were alone in Kevin’s apartment rehearsing my father’s lines," he said on Buzzfeed.

"My father didn’t see, and I didn’t tell him about the incident for many years."

The claims contribute to a growing sexual abuse scandal against Spacey, who has been dropped by House of Cards producers Netflix and is currently the subject of an investigation by police in London.