{"id":91661,"date":"2023-07-31T01:15:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T08:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91661"},"modified":"2023-07-31T01:15:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T08:15:39","slug":"is-spacey-innocent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/07\/31\/is-spacey-innocent\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Spacey Innocent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m torn.&nbsp; On one hand, I believe in the judicial system \u2013 believe me, I do.&nbsp; On the other hand, I believe in my gut instincts.&nbsp; And if I had to bet my life on one or the other, I\u2019d choose my instincts every time.&nbsp; For instance, there are certain celebrities who are plagued with rumors.&nbsp; One might say that if <strong>Mr. X <\/strong>were really gay, wouldn\u2019t there be some proof?&nbsp; On the other hand, proof or not, I believe what I believe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>This brings us to <strong>Kevin Spacey<\/strong>.&nbsp; For years, everyone whispered that he was gay.&nbsp; There was no proof \u2013 until he opened the <em>Tony Awards <\/em>dressed as <strong>Norma Desmond <\/strong>and sang, \u201cI\u2019m coming out\u2026\u201d.&nbsp; Looking back, the apotheosis of his career also began his downfall.&nbsp; Seeing him up there prompted <strong>Anthony Rapp <\/strong>to come forward with his story, which led to Spacey admitting that he\u2019s gay.&nbsp; This led to Rapp\u2019s lawsuit, which gave scores of lads in the UK license to also come forward.&nbsp; And here we are.<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean that Spacey was found not guilty in those cases?&nbsp; And what does this judicial win mean for his career?&nbsp; He\u2019s claimed there were several people in England waiting to hire him once the trial was over.&nbsp; Let\u2019s see how many offer him employment.&nbsp; What about the court of public opinion?&nbsp; He may get work, but will anyone care?&nbsp; When he was found \u201cnot guilty\u201d, Kevin wept openly, saying, \u201cI am humbled by the outcome.\u201d&nbsp; And we\u2019re back where we started.&nbsp; Does a not guilty verdict change anyone\u2019s mind?&nbsp; Does that mean Spacey is actually innocent?&nbsp; I will remind you that <strong>OJ Simpson <\/strong>was also found not guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m torn.&nbsp; On one hand, I believe in the judicial system \u2013 believe me, I do.&nbsp; On the other hand, I believe in my gut instincts.&nbsp; And if I had to bet my life on one or the other, I\u2019d choose my instincts every time.&nbsp; For instance, there are certain celebrities who are plagued with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91670,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91661\/revisions\/91670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}