Kevin Spacey Ordered to Pay Almost $31M to 'House of Cards' Company
(CNN) -- Kevin Spacey will have to pay almost $31 million to Media Rights Capital, the production company behind "House of Cards," a judge has ruled.
The actor starred in the Netflix series for five seasons before he was fired in 2017.Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mel Red Recana made the ruling earlier this week, confirming an award that had been decided by an arbitrator last year.
CNN has obtained the court documents.Spacey and MRC have been battling in the years since the actor was dismissed from the production over allegations of misconduct on and off the set.Spacey starred as Frank Underwood on the Emmy-winning show, and MRC claims that having to cut him out of the sixth season of the show cost them millions of dollars and "rendered him (and his affiliated entities) liable."Spacey was fired from the TV show the day after CNN published its report in 2017, in which several current and former members of the "House of Cards" production staff came forward with allegations of sexual harassment.
One person also accused Spacey, who was an executive producer on the series, of sexual assault.Shortly before CNN's report, actor Anthony Rapp told BuzzFeed News that the actor made a sexual advance toward him at a party in 1986 when he was 14 years old.
