Los Angeles Superior Court judge ordered Kevin Spacey will pay $31 million to MCR, the production company responsible for the series.Card House‘, What compensation for breach of contract and for damages resulting from their behavior during the shooting.
The fine was upheld by an arbitration court last year, but the actor appealed the measure, despite failing because he was a judge in his decision. Mel Red Recana According to Efe, Spacey’s lawyers did not show that the measure was as “unreasonable” as they claimed.
“They failed to show that this was a litigation or that the compensation was completely unreasonable and led to an arbitrary rework of both parties’ contracts.”
According to ‘The Hollywood Reporter’ of MCR production company, The arbitration court found that the actor violated the terms of his contract by his behavior, as he was accused of sexual harassment by a production assistant.
The complaint came at a time when Spacey, who won two Oscars for ‘The Usual Suspects’ (1995) and ‘American Beauty’ (1999), saw her career collapse in 2017 after multiple sexual assault accusations she always denied.
Following a complaint from his shooting assistant, the production company eliminated Spacey’s role in House of Cards, completely rewrote its sixth season, and It has reduced the number of episodes from 13 to 8 to meet the premiere date announced by Netflix.
For all these reasons, the company responsible for other titles such as ‘Ozark’ and ‘The Shrink Next Door’, alleged that during the arbitration the actor did not provide his services in a “professional manner” or in accordance with their policy of conduct.
Regarding the remainder of the complaints against him in the US, the two cases that reached the courts in 2019 did not proceed.
Inside California, a chiropractor accused him of a sexual assault that allegedly occurred in 2016 but died before the Prosecutor’s Office brought charges; By the way Massachusetts, A young man who accused himself of another attack in 2016 dropped the charges.
This process in the US was developed in parallel with a British court case in which a British court charged him with five other sex crimes committed in London between 2005 and 2013, which Spacey pleaded not guilty to on 14 July.