Actor Kevin Spacey was found not guilty of nine counts of sexual assault by a jury in the United Kingdom on Wednesday.
Spacey, 64, had pleaded not guilty to the charges, which came from four men and spanned two decades, in the London court.
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The jury reached the decision after three days of deliberating, with Spacey crying as the verdict was read out loud before the court, according to Sky News. The maximum sentence for one of the charges was life in prison.
Spacey had been accused by the anonymous men, who are in their 30s and 40s, of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent, sexual assault, and indecent assault. Several star witnesses were called to the stand to defend Spacey, including the actor himself and Elton John.
The acquittal in the U.K. comes less than a year after Spacey was found not liable by a Manhattan jury for a battery claim brought against him by actor Anthony Rapp in a sexual abuse case. Rapp had alleged that at a party in 1986, Spacey picked him up and put him on a bed before lying on top of him. Rapp was 14 at the time, and Spacey was 26.
During the trial in the U.K., Spacey discussed how the accusations by Rapp had destroyed his acting career.
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"My world exploded," Spacey told the court. "There was a rush to judgment, and before the first question was asked or answered, I lost my job, I lost my reputation, I lost everything in a matter of days."
In 2017, sexual abuse allegations effectively ended Spacey's career, with him losing his role in the final season of Netflix's House of Cards and being edited out of the film All the Money in the World. Spacey has maintained his innocence against all accusations of sexual abuse.