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Kevin Spacey accuser dies by suicide day after actor posts 'kill them with kindness' video
by Spencer Neale, Breaking News Reporter |
| December 26, 2019 10:13 AM
A prominent Kevin Spacey accuser died by suicide on Christmas Day.
Ari Behn, 47, was married to Norwegian Princess Martha Louise between 2002 and 2017 and accused Spacey of groping him under a table at a Nobel Peace Prize event in 2007.
"It is with great sadness in our hearts that I on behalf of the very closest relatives of Ari Behn must announce that he took his own life today," Behn's manager Geir Hakonsund told Norway Today.
This marks the third Spacey accuser to die in 2019. In May, Linda Culkin, who accused Spacey, 60, of sexual harassment, was killed when she was struck by a vehicle in Massachusetts. In September, an anonymous massage therapist who accused Spacey of sexual assault died in the middle of a lawsuit against the actor.
Behn's death comes one day after Spacey released a video on YouTube titled "KTWK (Kill Them With Kindness)." Stoking a roaring fireplace adorned with Christmas stockings, Spacey can be seen looking into the camera and saying, "I know what you're thinking. Can he be serious? I'm dead serious."
"The next time someone does something you don't like, you can go on the attack, but you can also hold your fire and do the unexpected," said the Oscar winner as music played in the background. "You can kill them with kindness."
It marked the second video the American Beauty actor has released around the Christmas holiday. In 2018, Spacey published a video titled "Let Me Be Frank," in which he mimicked his character Frank Underwood from the House of Cards TV series.
A statement released by the Royal House of Norway said Behn "was an important part of our family for many years, and we carry warm and good memories of him with us."