Kevin Spacey will pay one million dollars to the production company MRC, which is behind the TV series “House of Cards”, to settle allegations of sexual harassment against young co-writers of the series, reports Variety magazine, cited by News.ro.

Spacey was fired from the show’s final season in 2017. He faced the prospect of paying up to US$31 million in damages in the case after a judge ruled the allegations were true and MRC deserved to be reimbursed for its costs of canceling another planned season and resuming filming without him to release the final episodes.

Spacey agreed to pay $1 million over several years in installments equal to 10% of his after-tax income. MRC also enlisted Spacey’s cooperation in trying to recover the remaining costs from his insurance company.

In April 2022, MRC sued the Fireman’s Fund and Lloyd’s of London on the theory that Spacey’s absence from the series was covered by their distribution insurance policies. The production obtains distribution insurance to protect itself in case a key actor becomes ill and cannot perform.

In that case, the MRC noted that shortly after Spacey’s alleged misconduct was reported by CNN and other media outlets, he checked into Meadows, an Arizona facility that offers sex addiction treatment. The company argued that this qualifies as a policy-inducing illness.

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Kevin Spacey, the subject of a civil lawsuit between the producers of “House of Cards” and an insurance company

Judge Mark Epstein twice dismissed MRC’s insurance claim, first in April 2023 and then in November. The judge wrote in November that it appeared those contracts “were not intended to cover this type of claim.”

Epstein dismissed the case against Lloyd’s outright, but allowed the MRC to make another attempt to amend the claim against the Fireman’s Fund. Among other flaws in the lawsuit, the judge noted that the MRC did not specify Spacey’s condition or explain exactly how it would prevent him from acting.

Allegations of sexual assault against the actor surfaced in 2017 at the start of the #MeToo movement, at a time when Kevin Spacey was at the height of his fame as the lead actor in the hit Netflix series. House of cards.

Kevin Spacey, a two-time Oscar winner for his roles in American beauty and The usual suspectswas also accused of sexual assault in London, where he was acquitted at the end of a trial that ended last summer.

The 64-year-old American actor has won every lawsuit, criminal or civil, brought against him over the allegations made in the midst of the #MeToo phenomenon.

After settling those lawsuits, Spacey launched a scathing attack on Netflix last December, saying in an interview that much of the streaming platform’s success owed to him and the success of House of Cards, one of the first phenomenal series. .

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