PICTURED: Spacey’s team arrives at court to await the media crowd

The actor was flanked by a team of people when he arrived at Southwark Crown Court in London on Wednesday morning.

The Oscar-winning American actor is accused of 12 counts of sexual assault on four men in the UK between 2005 and 2013.
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What are the charges Spacey is facing?

Spacey faces 12 counts of sex crimes related to events that allegedly took place between 2001 and 2013.

The actor first pleaded not guilty last July to five of those charges, four of sexual assault and one of causing a person to engage in nonconsensual penetrative sexual activity. The latter charge carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

In January he pleaded not guilty to seven other sex crime charges and denied a series of alleged sexual assaults on a man between 2001 and 2004.

British judge Mark Wall agreed to join the seven-count indictment to an earlier five-count indictment.

Kevin Spacey looks calm as he arrives at London court

Kevin Spacey appeared calm as he arrived at London’s Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday morning for the start of a four-week trial in which the Oscar-winning actor faces a dozen sexual offense charges.

Kevin Spacey on trial for sex crimes
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Spacey, 63, has denied all the allegations.

The disgraced actor faces charges for crimes that allegedly took place between 2001 and 2013. They include sexual and indecent assaults and one felony of causing a person to engage in nonconsensual penetrative sexual activity, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.