Kevin Spacey has to pay $ 31 million to produce House of Cards

Despite the timid attempts to get back on the crest of the wave, between Christmas videos and new films, Kevin Spacey is still paying the consequences of the scandal that turned his career upside down in October 2017, when several men had come forward accusing him of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior, some of them among other things still minors at the time of the facts. The first reaction to these accusations was his immediate exclusion from House of Cards, the Netflix series that had relaunched his career. The same production house as the series, Mrche had asked for a damages to the actor, after having in turn conducted an internal investigation that revealed how Spacey had groped at least one of the crew members and in general contributed to creating an atmosphere on the set full of sexual allusions and jokes not suited to a workplace .

Spacey had prepared one for the past few months legal counter-offensive, given that his lawyers had found inaccuracies in the complaints filed by the other party. However, these attempts have been of little use, given that in the last hour the Superior Court of Los Angeles he confirmed the fact that the plaintiff will have to pay the MRc a sum equal to 31 million dollars. The motivation behind the ruling is that with his conduct Spacey made it impossible for the production company to continue their working relationship, but in doing so it also caused a damage to image and huge economic losses to the production of the series House of Cards. After the passing of Spacey, who played there the former president of the United States Frank Underwoodthe show in fact ended with a sixth and final season entrusted to the character of Claire Underwood played by Robin Wrightbut without the same media echo of the previous episode cycles.

The ruling is the latest setback in a career that, especially after the waves of protest of the #MeToo, will hardly be able to recover. Of the numerous lawsuits filed against him in the United States by various accusers, at least three have been withdrawn, while the one formalized by the actor in 2020 continues. Anthony Rapp, one of the first to reveal the actor’s sexual assault against him when he was just 14 years old. In May 2022 also the British justice has filed four counts of sexual assault against Kevin Spacey. Despite this in the last year they would be at least two films, The man who designed God by Franco Neroe e Peter Five Eight by Michael Zaiko Hall, who will soon see him among the protagonists.