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Kevin Spacey’s $80M Legal House of Cards

The disgraced actor is soon expected to sit for a brutal cross-examination in the rare Hollywood insurance dispute that has actually made it to trial. A potentially huge payout hinges on whose version of House of Cards’s ending prevails.

Kevin Spacey
There’s also the question of what really killed 'House of Cards.' Was it Spacey’s condition, whatever the diagnosis may be, or was it Netflix’s aversion to bad headlines? Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images
Eriq Gardner
January 13, 2026

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Sometime in the next few weeks, two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey likely will take the stand in Los Angeles Superior Court and tell jurors that he would have killed himself if he’d had to return for the sixth and final season of House of Cards. His testimony figures to be the centerpiece of a six-week insurance trial set to begin on January 20.