Los Angeles Superior Court docket Decide Mel Pink Recana made the ruling earlier this week, confirming an award that had been determined by an arbitrator final yr. CNN has obtained the court docket paperwork.
Spacey and MRC have been battling within the years for the reason that actor was dismissed from the manufacturing over allegations of misconduct on and off the set.
Spacey starred as Frank Underwood on the Emmy-winning present, and MRC claims that having to chop him out of the sixth season of the present value them thousands and thousands of {dollars} and “rendered him (and his affiliated entities) liable.”
Spacey was fired from the TV present the day after CNN revealed its report in 2017, through which a number of present and former members of the “Home of Playing cards” manufacturing workers got here ahead with allegations of sexual harassment. One individual additionally accused Spacey, who was an govt producer on the sequence, of sexual assault.
Shortly earlier than CNN’s report, actor Anthony Rapp advised BuzzFeed Information that the actor made a sexual advance towards him at a celebration in 1986 when he was 14 years outdated. MRC says it halted the manufacturing “to deal with any issues of the present’s forged and crew” in wake of the allegations, in keeping with a 2021 submitting and beforehand reported by CNN.
Following Rapp’s claims, Spacey issued a press release claiming he didn’t recall the incident and apologized for what he mentioned would have been “deeply inappropriate drunken habits.”
The Oscar winner is going through a felony trial in London subsequent yr after being accused of sexually assaulting three males between 2005 and 2013. Spacey pleaded not responsible in July.
CNN has reached out to Spacey’s attorneys for remark.