Overview
- Judge Christina Lambert ordered the actions stayed on March 13 after the parties agreed terms set out in a confidential schedule, with no order on costs disclosed.
- The settlements halt three High Court lawsuits alleging incidents between 2000 and 2013 and mean the planned trial will not proceed.
- Two of the civil claimants had given evidence in Spacey’s 2023 London criminal trial, where a jury acquitted him of nine charges.
- One claimant, actor Ruari Cannon, waived anonymity and separately reached an out-of-court settlement with the Old Vic earlier this month.
- At a recent hearing, the claimants’ lawyers said seven additional witnesses wishing to give similar evidence were prepared to testify at trial.