Kevin Spacey ordered to pay nearly $31 million to 'House of Cards' production company
Actor Kevin Spacey has been ordered to pay nearly $31 million to 'House of Cards' production company. Kevin (CNN) An arbitrator has ordered Kevin Spacey to pay almost $31 million to Media Rights Capital, the production company behind "House of Cards," the Netflix series in which the actor starred for five seasons until he was fired in 2017. The revelation came in a petition filed Monday in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, in which MRC is asking the court "to confirm the award in its favor and enter judgment against Spacey and his loan-out and producing companies." 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. In its filing, MRC states that in October of 2020, an arbitrator found Spacey "repeatedly breached his contractual obligations" while starring as Frank Underwood on the Emmy-winning show and that his behavior "rendered him (and h...