Kevin Spacey to Pay 'House of Cards' Production Company $31 Million Over Firing for Alleged Sexual Misconduct

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Kevin Spacey has been ordered to pay the  production company, MRC, $31 million after it was determined he breached his contract and was fired for alleged sexual misconduct.According to court documents obtained by ET on Thursday, Judge Mel Red Recana confirmed the arbitration award, which was determined last November following an arbitration hearing between MRC and Spacey's attorneys.An arbitrator ruled that the 63-year-old actor breached his contract with theproduction company when he was fired from in 2017 amid allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct.The ruling, first reported by , awarded $29.5 million in damages and $1.4 million in attorneys fees and costs to MRC.In 2017, multiple people came forward against Spacey to allege a pattern of sexually predatory conduct, and he's denied the allegations.

MRC immediately suspended Spacey after a CNN report in November 2017 claimed that he made the  set a «toxic environment» through a pattern of sexual harassment, and Netflix ultimately cut all ties with him ahead of ' sixth and final season.

Court documents obtained in November state that the arbitrator in the hearing found that «Spacey's conduct constituted a material breach of his acting and executive producing agreements with MRC, and that his breaches excused MRC's obligations to pay him any further compensation in connection with the Show.»The court documents continued, «The Arbitrator further found that Spacey's egregious breaches of contract proximately caused and rendered him (and his affiliated entities) liable for the tens of millions of dollars in losses MRC suffered when it had no choice, upon the revelations of Spacey's pattern of harassment, to halt the production of Season 6 of the Show, to rewrite the.