Remember in 2004 when Kevin Spacey got "brutally mugged" while walking his dog at 4:30am? .... What really happened was this. Spacey had taken a shine to a waiter where he was dining. He handed him a 20 pound note tip with his phone number on, and the star-struck waiter agreed to meet him later. The two men then got trashed together. While walking back to Spacey's apartment near the Old Vic to continue their drinking session, they passed through a nearby park. Spacey made a suggestion to the waiter about what they could do next. Not liking this suggestion, the straight but rather worse for wear waiter, punched the star in the face. Afterwards, Spacey's lawyers suggested rather strongly to him that he might want to keep the story to himself. The waiter wasn't interested in selling his story or taking any hush money and has kept a dignified silence ever since. Almost.

http://boards.4chan.org/tv/thread/89585010/kevin-spacey-comes-out-gay-apologizes

Guys like Spacey and Weinstein think they're untouchable because they consider themselves Hollywood royalty, surrounded by 'yes' men and sycophants; have at their fingertips the best legal defence and PR that money can buy; know they can ruin people's career with one phone call; and people are really frightened of them.