Kevin Spacey agrees to pay $1M to 'House of Cards' in settlement over sexual harassment allegations

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Kevin Spacey will be paying the ‘House of Cards’ maker $1M in settlement over alleged sexual harassment claims of the young staffers during the show.

MRC, the production company of the hit Netflix series, kicked out Spacey from the final season in 2017 and, with the given amount, will try to recover the costs of scrapping the final season and replacing him.

'House of Cards' show previously demanded $31M from Kevin Spacey

Previously, an arbitrator deemed the allegations by the show's employees as credible and Spacey was supposed to pay $31 million. He, however, denied the allegations.

As per Puck, the MRC and Spacey agreed on only $1 million in installments equal to 10 percent of his after-tax income, and it will be given in a few years.

Earlier, the makers MRC sued Fireman's Fund and Lloyd's of London and claimed that Spacey's absence from the ‘House of Cards’ was covered under the cast insurance policies.

This allows the company to cover the cost in case an actor gets too sick to perform.

MRC's lawsuit against insurance company failed

However, it was rejected twice by the judge. “The court is left with the conclusion that these policies just do not insure against this particular risk, and that neither party was really contemplating coverage for this sort of thing at the time the policies were signed,' Judge Mark Epstein said at the time,” reported Variety.

Meanwhile, after getting access to information related to Spacey’s medical health they filed a lawsuit against the insurance company again. The latter argued that MRC has changed its position significantly after it first claimed in the arbitration case against him that Spacey was dropped from the show for violating the sexual harassment policy, instead claimed in the suit as illness.

Spacey recently returned to Hollywood with ‘Peter Five Eight’ flick where he plays a hitman in the film and, in the latest trailer, he can be seen disposing a dead body, holding a woman at knifepoint, and calling himself as a ‘fallen soul.’

He goes into a small town at the behest of his boss to murder a real estate agent named Sam, as per Daily Mail.

“In this town, nothing is what it seems,” is the tagline of the flick. Michael Zaiko Hall, writer-director called the film “a contemporary film rendered in a 1940's pulp-melodrama style.”