NEW YORK – A real blow to Kevin Spacey. After two years of behind-the-scenes legal battles, arbitration ruled that the disgraced actor for sexual harassment must pay nearly $ 31 million to the producers of ‘House of Cards’ for “repeatedly breaking contractual obligations” by violating codes of conduct on sexual harassment. The verdict dates back to 13 months ago and has only just come to light because the production company Media Rights Capital (MRC) has turned to the Superior Court of Los Angeles to confirm the payment. Spacey, who for five seasons had played the evil president Frank Underwood on Netflix, was never sentenced to court for harassment, but in 2017 he was ousted from the popular series on Netflix after, during the filming of the sixth season and As the Harvey Weinstein scandal raged in Hollywood, actor Anthony Rapp accused him of abuse when he was still a kid.
About twenty young men had then come out and accusations had also emerged from the set of ‘House of Cards’. Mrc and Netflix had suspended filming and initiated an internal investigation after which Spacey was suspended from his starring role and the production team. In the arbitration, which includes over a million dollars in legal fees, it is alleged that Mrc suffered millions of dollars in damages from the star’s conduct, including needing to completely rewrite the script and shorten Season 6 from 13 to eight episodes.
Two-time Academy Award winner for ‘The Usual Suspects’ and ‘American Beauty’, Spacey was one of the first Hollywood celebrities since Weinstein to be engulfed in sex scandals. After the allegations by Rapp, who sued him in federal court last year, CNN cited multiple sources in November 2017 that the actor had created a “toxic” environment on the set of ‘House of Cards’. making vulgar comments and putting his hands on staff guys.
After the expulsion from the series, the director Ridley Scott had canceled the scenes of the film ‘All the money in the world’ in which Spacey appeared in the part of the oilman JP Getty: the role was then entrusted to Christopher Plummer who had obtained a nomination for Academy Awards. The legal and image woes had prevailed over the star’s artistic credibility: in 2018 his latest film, ‘Billionaire Boys Club’, shot before allegations of abuse came to light, flopped with just $ 126 receipts on the first opening Friday. Only recently, breaking the ostracism against his colleague, the Italian Franco Nero has entrusted Spacey with a role in his new film ‘The Man Who Drew God’.
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