Overview
- On the stand in Santa Monica, Spacey read from his The Meadows discharge summary confirming the diagnosis and said he cannot medically dispute it yet personally rejects the label of sex addiction.
- He challenged multiple clinician notes as inaccurate and denied alleged “problem behaviors,” including claims of inappropriate touching reported by anonymous crew members.
- MRC’s expert psychiatrist Michael Genovese testified that Spacey contemplated suicide and was unable to perform his duties on House of Cards in 2017 due to the disease.
- Fireman’s Fund argues its policy covers only losses from a medically verified, incapacitating illness and contends the production stoppage resulted from media fallout rather than a qualifying condition.
- The trial follows an arbitration that imposed a $31 million award on Spacey, later reduced to $1 million in exchange for his medical records and testimony, as MRC seeks upwards of $100 million in a case a judge has allowed to proceed a final time.