Prosecutors dropped sexual assault proceedings against Kevin Spacey after the case against the actor collapsed over his alleged victim's refusal to testify. William Little had accused the actor, 59, of groping him in a bar on the upmarket resort island of Nantucket in July 2016. But Massachusetts prosecutors filed a formal notice of abandonment of indecent assault and battery indictment due to "the unavailability of the complaining witness."

Little chose to plead the Fifth Amendment, which allows witnesses and the accused not to testify so as not to incriminate themselves after it was revealed that his cell phone — a key piece of evidence in the case — may have been compromised.