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Kevin Spacey Loses Effort to Overturn $31 Million 'House of Cards' Arbitration Award

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Kevin Spacey is facing a huge loss in court. The 63-year-old actor lost his attempt to overturn the $31 million arbitration award he was ordered to pay for breaching his House of Cards contract due to harassing young crew members in a hearing in LA on Thursday (August 4), via Rolling Stone.

The judge ruled that Kevin failed to show that the award was too “utterly irrational” to stand. “Respondents fail to demonstrate that this is even a close case.

Respondents do not demonstrate that the damages award was so utterly irrational that it amounts to an arbitrary remaking of the parties’ contracts,” Los Angeles County Judge Mel Red Recana wrote. Click inside to read more… “Respondents do not show that the arbitrator acted beyond his authority under the scope of the parties’ arbitration agreements.” Kevin was filming the sixth and final season of House of Cards in 2017 when Buzzfeed published an online article alleging he forced himself on actor Anthony Rapp when he was only 14 years old in the ’80s.

Then CNN published a story with allegations from eight anonymous House of Cards crew members claiming he engaged in “predatory” behavior, including pulling a person’s hand down to touch his crotch.

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