Anthony Rapp welcomes a baby boy with partner Ken Ithiphol

Anthony Rapp welcomed a baby boy with partner Ken Ithiphol, a month after losing his sexual assault lawsuit against Kevin Spacey.

The Star Trek actor, 51, and his partner, 36, who announced their engagement in 2019, took to Twitter on Monday to reveal that their son Rai was born on December 2 via surrogate and shared the first snapshot. of the newborn.

Anthony wrote: ‘Ken and I are delighted to share that our family has grown!

“Our son, Rai Larson Ithiphol, was born on Friday, December 2, 2022 to an incredibly generous surrogate mother, to whom we are forever grateful.

‘(Rai is pronounced as “rye” or “chai”). We love him very much.’

The couple, who have been together since January 2016, had not previously announced that they were expecting a child together.

The announcement comes just over a month after a The New York court dismissed Rapp’s sexual assault lawsuit against Kevin Spacey.

The allegations were made by ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ actor Rapp, who accused the Hollywood star of sexual misconduct towards him when he was 14 years old.

A jury found that Rapp, who was seeking $40 million in damages, failed to prove that Spacey “touched a sexual or intimate part of the body”, leading Judge Lewis Kaplan to throw out the case.

The panel took just one hour and 20 minutes to reach its verdict.

Rapp was seeking compensation for mental and emotional suffering, medical expenses and job loss.

He claimed the House of Cards star pinned him to a bed and pushed his pelvis against him in 1986, an allegation that Spacey’s lawyers strenuously denied.

During the trial, Rapp’s lawyers tried to convince the jury that Spacey carried out the incident in an attempt to “satisfy his sexual desire.”

Spacey’s attorney, Jennifer Keller, told the court at the start of the trial that her client “wanted justice.”

“Once you’ve heard both sides, you’ll be convinced that this alleged assault never happened at all.”

Ms Keller said Mr Rapp “hooked his bandwagon” to the MeToo movement when he introduced himself.

In his closing argument, he said, “This isn’t a team sport where you’re on the Me Too side or you’re on the other side.”

‘This is a very different place. Our system requires evidence, proof, objective support for the accusations provided to an impartial jury. As polarized as society can be today, it really shouldn’t have a place here.’

During his testimony, Spacey said he was “shocked and scared” when he learned of the allegations in the Buzzfeed article in 2017.

Spacey said he had “never been alone” with Rapp and “didn’t know how (the allegation) could be true.”

With tears in his eyes, Spacey said he was “never interested in kids” and responded to Rapp’s claim in the Buzzfeed article that he was a fraud for not coming out.

Spacey was emotional when he apologized for coming out in a statement in response to Rapp’s allegations that he linked an alleged pedophilia and homosexuality incident.

He wiped his eyes with a handkerchief and said: “I would never have done anything to hurt the gay community and I was so upset by what happened.”

“It was really bad and it was really bad and I’m so sorry,” bowing her head as she cried.

Throughout the trial, Rapp told the court how he met Spacey while he was acting in the 1986 play Precious Sons opposite Ed Harris.

According to Mr. Rapp, the couple met backstage at a stage production and Mr. Spacey invited him and a friend, fellow actor John Barrowman, to dinner.

He claimed that Spacey invited him to an apartment a few days later.

He told the court that he didn’t know anyone else in the apartment, so he went to the bedroom to watch TV and was joined later that night by the apparently drunk actor, who was 26 at the time.

Rapp said Spacey picked him up “like a groom carries a bride across a threshold, adding: “I was confused. He didn’t know what was happening.

Spacey’s chest was “pressed firmly against my chest,” Rapp said, leaving him feeling “pinned” to the bed.

Mr Rapp said at the time: ‘I knew something was really wrong… I had to get out of there. I felt very frozen. I felt like a deer in the headlights.

I managed to wriggle out from under him.

When asked by one of his attorneys if he was making it up, Mr. Rapp’s voice turned deep and emotional as he said, “This is something that happened to me.” It wasn’t good.’

Mr. Rapp became nervous during the forensic cross-examination of Ms. Keller.

She suggested that he made up his accusations because he was jealous, and claimed that he would “get mad” every time he read that Mr. Spacey won another award.

Ms. Keller managed to get Mr. Rapp to admit that it was not true that he was inspired to speak in 2017 after reading a New York Times article by Lupita Nyong’o.

In fact, he had started talking to a Buzzfeed reporter eight days earlier.

Born in New Jersey in 1959, Spacey studied at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York and made his professional stage debut in 1981.

She won an Oscar for her role in 1995’s The Usual Suspects and a second Academy Award for American Beauty in 2000.

In 2015 he received an honorary knighthood and a special Olivier Award for his contributions to British theatre.

Among the other legal challenges facing Spacey was the ruling by another judge in the US in August that he must pay $31m (£29.5m) to MRC, the producers of House of Cards, for his dismissal. in 2017.

All scenes featuring Mr. Spacey as oil magnate J. Paul Getty in Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World were reshot with Christopher Plummer.

A Netflix biopic of Gore Vidal starring Mr. Spacey has been permanently shelved.