Kevin Spacey wants you to know he isn’t sleeping under a bridge. The Oscar-winning actor hopped onto X with a selfie video after headlines over the last week suggested he was now homeless and getting by with living in hotels and Airbnbs.
The news of Spacey being homeless spread quickly. Some imagined House of Cards‘ Frank Underwood queuing outside a shelter. While other fans sent messages and offered spare couches. But while Spacey appreciated the concern and the personal messages, he quickly stepped in to set things straight.
“I feel it would be disingenuous of me to allow you to believe that I am indeed homeless in the colloquial sense,” he said. He’s been moving between hotels and Airbnbs, traveling wherever the work pops up. “I don’t usually make it my business to correct the media. If I did, I wouldn’t have time for much else,” he added.
The report came from a Telegraph interview conducted by journalist Mick Brown. “In my conversation with Mick Brown, the wonderful journalist who wrote the story… I said I was basically living in hotels and Airbnbs and going where the work is, just as I did when I first started out in this business,” he explained. The headline, on the other hand, implied he was wandering the streets and looking for a place to live. That wasn’t true.
That doesn’t mean life has been cushy or great, however. The 66-year-old star, who once wowed the world with his onscreen performances, says the fallout from sexual misconduct allegations left him owing “many millions” in legal fees. His Baltimore home reportedly hit the auction block because his finances took a hit after 2017. In just a matter of months, he went from headlining House of Cards to being buried in lawsuits and out of work in Hollywood. Of course, he apologized to Anthony Rapp, denied other claims, and eventually faced criminal cases in both New York and London. The New York lawsuit ended in 2022 with no liability found, and a jury cleared him of sexual assault charges in the UK in 2023.
So no, he’s not homeless in the way those headlines used the word. But yes, his life looks very different from the days he was one of the biggest actors on the planet.
“There are many people, as we all know, who are indeed actually living on the streets or in their cars, or in terrible financial situations, and my heart goes out to them. Which is why it was a shame that the Telegraph chose to undermine the work of their own journalist by selling him out with a knowingly misleading headline for the sake of clicks.”
So, no, Kevin Spacey isn’t homeless. He never was.
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