Information about the outcome of the arbitration reached the media after the MRC turned to a court in Los Angeles with a request to confirm the settlement. This obliges Spacey and its two production companies to pay $ 29.5 million in damages, as well as the other party’s costs for the process of nearly $ 1.5 million, according to the Variety server.
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The MRC reports that Spacey’s departure from a series of political intrigues in Washington caused her “significant losses.” The creators ended his collaboration with him after five series after the American television CNN informed that Spacey was harassing young crew members during the filming of the series. An internal investigation followed, which, according to the production company, convicted the actor of inappropriate behavior and breach of contract. MRC claims that it did not know about the problem before.
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It wasn’t the only case Spacey was facing at the time. At the height of the MeToo campaign, the actor known from the films Seven or American Beauty became one of the main targets of the accusation in the fall of 2017 after the scandal surrounding producer Harvey Weinstein. Thirty men eventually accused him of sexual harassment, but only one case came to court. In 2019, the prosecutor’s office eventually withdrew the charges.
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However, Spacey’s career was in shambles. He lost his role in the series House of Cards when the last, sixth series was in full swing, and the script was almost complete. Subsequently, it was completely reworked into a form without the main character Frank Underwood, and the series was shortened from the planned 13 parts to eight.
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