- Actor Kevin Spacey has been accused of a series of sexual crimes, a set of cases occurred during the filming of the famous Netflix series “House of Cards”.
- The producer says that Spacey’s behavior caused them to lose millions because they had to change the plot of the series and reduce the duration of the last season.
- “House of Cards” was one of the first Netflix series to achieve worldwide fame, but the events linked to Spacey caused it to be forgotten.
The justice of the United States confirmed a ruling against the actor Kevin Spacey in the case that confronts him with the producers of the series in which he was the protagonist: “House of Cards”.
The actor had been fired from the series that aired on Netflix after several of his colleagues and assistants accused him of sexual assault on the set.
the character of Frank Underwood embodied by Spacey was a high-profile politician who became president of the United States.
The producers of the series, MRC, will receive 31 million dollars from the actor, as ruled, corroborating a previous ruling, the American Justice. The charge: sexual misconduct.
Spacey was kicked off the series when Season 6 was being filmed.
One of those involved was a production assistant, a complaint that prompted the start of the investigations.
What the judge decided with Kevin Spacey, star of “House of Cards”
Los Angeles court judge Mel Red Recana ruled in favor of confirming the determination of the end of 2020 in which the actor was forced to compensate with 29 million dollars in damages, plus another two million in justice costs.
In arguments supporting the request, MRC producers said Spacey had caused them to lose tens of millions of dollars in profits for his sexual misconduct by forcing them to rewrite the story, bring the series to an end early and remove the character from Underwood, the most important of the Netflix series.
Season 6 was going to last 13 episodes and finally there were only eight.
In the first instance, the judge found Spacey guilty of breaching his contract as an actor with the production company.
On appeal, The actor’s lawyers said Spacey’s behavior only involved “sexual advances” and “innocent games.”
The biggest problems for Spacey regarding cases of this nature had begun months earlier, in 2017, when actor Anthony Rapp accused him before the press of having sexually assaulted him when he was 14 years old.
Due to this fact, the series suspended the actor in the first instance, but later the other cases arose, this time from workers on the set of “House of Cards” who accused him of creating a toxic environment.
These were not the only causes that the actor has. Last May he was charged with four other counts of sexual assault and one of “causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent” by Britain’s Crown Prosecutor General’s Office, after having analyzed by more than one year the material obtained by the London Police.
Everything would have happened between 2005 and 2013, when Spacey artistically directed the theater Old Vic, in the UK capital. The victims were three men and one woman who are now in their 30s and 40s.
Spacey pleaded not guilty last month and awaits trial next year.
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