The Jordan Rules, Hollywood’s Stock Market, Vivek Pre-Postmortem

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon compilation of Puck’s latest reporting.

First up today, Eriq Gardner blows the lid off a $50 million Kevin Spacey lawsuit following his infamous, career-imploding House of Cards dismissal in 2017.

Plus, below the fold: Lauren Sherman gabs with formerly cancelled Estée Lauder exec John Demsey about the state of fashion and his post-scandal trajectory. Peter Hamby teases a valuable lesson about G.O.P. politics from the slow death of the Ramaswamy campaign. On Somebody’s Gotta Win, Tara Palmeri digs into the House speaker’s race before chatting with Sarah Matthews about the dangerously shipshape Trump ’24 operation. On The Town, Matt Belloni and Lucas Shaw lock horns over Hollywood’s most pressing topics. And on The Powers That Be, Peter Hamby and Abby Livingston dissect the surprising rise of Jim Jordan.

ERIQ GARDNER

The production company behind Netflix’s “House of Cards” is claiming that Spacey’s alleged sex addiction should have triggered its insurance policy. But Lloyd’s of London suggests the studio knew all about his “condition”—and lied about it from the start.

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LAUREN SHERMAN

A candid chat with the formerly canceled beauty executive on the state of the trade, the existential threat of the fashion conglomerates, and the future of D.T.C.

PETER HAMBY

The brief rise and rapid fall of Vivek Ramaswamy is a pretty good indicator that even in the chaotic universe of Republican politics, with its shameless demands and perverse incentives, certain rules still apply. Among them: People have to like you.

PETER HAMBY & ABBY LIVINGSTON

Abby Livingston joins Peter to discuss the surprising rise of Jim Jordan. The duo discuss whether he has real Speaker hopes, or if he's just another embattled McCarthy wannabe.