Actor Kevin Spacey arrives at district court on Monday, January 7, 2019, in Nantucket. Photo / AP
Kevin Spacey faces paying out more than US$30 million ($43 million) to House of Cards producers.
The disgraced actor has been locked in an arbitration case with MRC II and Knight Takes King Productions - a distribution company and production company respectively - for some time and after it was
ruled last year that the 62-year-old star's alleged behaviour caused substantial harm to both firms, he appealed the decision but was told earlier this month that he had lost.
The companies have asked the court to confirm the arbitration award, which would see Spacey and his companies asked to pay out over US$29.5 million in compensation and an additional US$1.5 million in attorneys' fees and costs.
MRC II and Knight Takes King Productions had argued there had been an internal investigation carried out following claims Spacey had sexually harassed or assaulted production members working on House of Cards - on which he played the lead role of President Francis Underwood - and terminated his contract in 2017 after finding many of the accusations to be true.
In 2019, MRC claimed Spacey's dismissal cost them millions in producing fees and lost revenue, as well as having to scrap the first two episodes, which he had featured in, and rewrite the entire final season of the political drama, further increasing costs.
