In the midst of a legal debacle, Kevin Spacey has to pay $ 31 million to the production of House of Cards

American justice has decided. Kevin Spacey will have to pay 31 million dollars (i.e. the equivalent of 30 million euros) to MRC, the production company behind the series House of cards.

If the amount of this ruling had been decided in October 2020, the Los Angeles Superior Court judge confirmed it on Thursday, August 4, 2022, as revealed. Deadline.

The house of cards in turmoil

In the context of #MeToo in 2017, the rumors were melted on Kevin Spacey, accused of sexual harassment and assaults. At that time, the actor starred in the series House of Card who was in full swing in a fifth season. After conducting an investigation, the MRC manufacturing company decided to do so fires the actor. Furthermore, the name of a assistant to series production was on the list of potential victims, though the actor denies.

Faced with justice, the MRC lawyers explained that they were forced to do so shorten the last season of the series and of remove Kevin Spacey character. All these maneuvers would have made them lose millions of dollars in profits. According to justice, his alleged behavior represents a breach of his contract. Of the $ 31 million the actor is sentenced to pay, 29.5 million represent damage.

Despite multiple allegations, Kevin Spacey denies it

The legal debacle by Kevin Spacey does not stop. Even if he deny the factsthe latter is the subject of four counts for sexual assault against three men. In June 2023he will have to appear before British justice in a trial in which he is accused of having “induced a person to engage in penetrating sexual activity without consent”.

Until then, it has to appear October 4, 2022 in New York in a lawsuit brought by actor Anthony Rapp, who accuses Kevin Spacey of raping him when he was 14.