The arbitrator issued a 46-page ruling in July 2020, which remains confidential, finding in MRC’s favor. Spacey filed a counterclaim, accusing the production company of wrongfully terminating his contract and breaching its obligations to “pay or play” under the agreement.Īttorneys on both sides took depositions from more 20 people, leading up to an eight-day confidential arbitration hearing in February 2020. MRC filed the confidential arbitration demand in January 2019, seeking to recover from Spacey the costs of scrapping the season and starting over. The two episodes were shelved and the production started over, ultimately delivering an eight-episode season rather than the 13 episodes that had been planned. The producers ultimately terminated Spacey’s contract, and his character, Frank Underwood, was written out of the show.Īt the time of Spacey’s suspension, two episodes of the sixth season were in production, and most of the season had been written. Spacey was immediately suspended pending an internal investigation.

MRC said it had “no knowledge whatsoever” of Spacey’s alleged on-set misconduct prior to the CNN report.

2, 2017, CNN reported that Spacey - the star and an executive producer of “House of Cards” - had created a “toxic” environment by making crude comments and engaging in non-consensual touching of young male staffers, citing eight production sources. Spacey was among the first major Hollywood figures to be accused in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal in October 2017. Profitt Productions and Trigger Street Productions, were ordered to pay $29.5 million in damages plus $1.2 million in attorneys’ fees and $235,000 in costs. MRC filed a petition on Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court to confirm the arbitration award, after the award was upheld in a confidential appeal. Vanessa Redgrave Distances Herself From Kevin Spacey Comeback 'The Man Who Drew God'

Kevin Spacey Is Ready for a Comeback - But Is Hollywood? MRC severed its relationship with Spacey and scrapped a season of the show in 2017, after multiple people came forward to allege a pattern of sexually predatory conduct.įaye Dunaway Joins New Kevin Spacey Film 'The Man Who Drew God' (EXCLUSIVE) An arbitrator has ordered Kevin Spacey and his companies to pay nearly $31 million to MRC, the production company behind “House of Cards,” after finding that Spacey breached his contract by violating the company’s sexual harassment policy.

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