A Jet-Setting Kevin Spacey Offers an Infuriating New Definition for “Homeless”

If there’s one malady that affects rich men of certain age, beyond infidelity and lower back pain, then surely it’s the propensity to feel like they need to play up the many hardships they’ve endured to make it to this point. After all, people won’t respect you unless they believe you can identify with the plight of the common man! So what if you’re an Oscar-winning actor; people need to believe that you’ve accumulated some serious grit. Or perhaps that’s just what Kevin Spacey was thinking when he told The Telegraph this week that he’s now “homeless,” his definition for that word apparently being that he doesn’t currently own any houses. Instead, the disgraced two-time Oscar winner describes his living situation as clearly fraught with peril: “I’m living in hotels, I’m living in Airbnbs. I’m going where the work is. I literally have no home, that’s what I’m trying to explain.”

It might shock Spacey to learn that the majority of people who don’t own a physical house typically aren’t throwing the term “homeless” around in describing their situations, and yet to see a former Hollywood icon like Spacey do so is hardly surprising all the same. Calling yourself “homeless” is practically a rich white male right of passage, whether it’s Mike Pence invoking the term while simultaneously staying at a vacation villa in the Virgin Islands, or Ed Sheeran having been “homeless” while staying for six weeks at the L.A. home of Jamie Foxx. Meanwhile in reality, actual homelessness in the U.S. surged to record highs in 2024, with a point-in-time count conducted in January registering more than 770,000 people experiencing homelessness, an 18% jump from the same point-in-time count in 2023. That’s more homeless individuals than the entire populations of either Alaska, Wyoming or Vermont, for a handy visual.

Spacey, meanwhile, is clearly in the midst of an attempted career relaunch and image-scrubbing, some eight years after he tanked his reputation when accused of sexual misconduct and assault by more than a dozen men. Beyond the salacious accusations of Spacey as a “sexual bully” who among other things was accused of giving oral sex to a sleeping man, and abusing actor Anthony Rapp when Rapp was only 14, Spacey was reviled by internet commentators for the mode of his response: Denying culpability while simultaneously using the opportunity to come out and use his newly revealed minority status as a shield against criticism. In particular, the phrase from his initial response to Rapp’s public accusation, “I choose now to live as a gay man,” was roundly mocked for its tone-deaf air of privilege, as if Spacey thought that by coming out he could instantly flip the script from being depicted as a predator to becoming a victim.

The fallout was swift, as Spacey lost his starring House of Cards role, throwing that former Netflix mainstay into chaos, and became tied up in legal imbroglios in London and NYC. Despite mountains of accusations, he was ultimately found not guilty in a 2023 case in London where four men had accused him of sexual assault between 2001-2013, and likewise found not liable in the 2022 civil lawsuit that was brought against him by Rapp.

Now, the 66-year-old Kevin Spacey, who would apparently like for you to believe that he’s surfing couches, is clearly gunning for the kind of high-profile entertainment industry absolution that would welcome him back into the good graces of Hollywood, and he’s even managed to scoop up a couple of sketchy lifetime achievement awards in Europe as part of that quest. In the last few years, the actor has been churning out lower budget productions such as The Man Who Drew God, Peter Five Eight and the upcoming The Awakening, shot in locales that have included Italy, the U.K. and Mexico, which has surely given Spacey an exciting array of places to receive I-am-a-homeless-man hotel room service. He’s even apparently directed his first feature since 2004’s Beyond the Sea, the bizarrely titled Holiguards Saga—The Portal of Force, which stars Spacey alongside the megawatt star power of … Dolph Lundgren and Eric Roberts, if you were wondering what tier this “supernatural action thriller” belongs in.

More than anything, it’s clear that Spacey is waiting for some benefactor to scoop him back up from this era of humiliation, especially when he literally says the following: “We are in touch with some extremely powerful people who want to put me back to work. And that will happen in its right time. But I will also say what I think the industry seems to be waiting for is to be given permission—by someone who is in some position of enormous respect and authority. So, my feeling is if Martin Scorsese or Quentin Tarantino call Evan [manager Evan Lowenstein] tomorrow, it will be over. I will be incredibly honored and delighted when that level of talent picks up the phone.”

To which we can only say: Mr. Scorsese, we can only pray that you have better things to do than to carry water for a “sexual bully” and faux-homeless scumbag like Kevin Spacey. Even the Dolph Lundgren and Eric Roberts tier is too good for him.