The new series of House of Cards will be its last, Netflix said, as its star faces a sexual harrassment claim NETFLIXKevin Spacey’s award-winning television series will not return after the next series, it was announced yesterday, as the Oscar-winning actor issued an apology over allegations that he made a sexual advance towards a 14-year-old boy. Netflix said the sixth series of House of Cards, starring Spacey as a scheming United States president, would be the last and said it was “deeply troubled” by the accusation levelled against the actor. Spacey in 1986, the year of the alleged assaultSpacey apologised to fellow actor Anthony Rapp, who claimed that in New York in 1986, when he was 14, Spacey, then 26, had made a sexual advance after a party at his apartment. Spacey, now 58, also revealed in his apology that he was “living as a gay man”, prompting claims that he had conflated alleged…

Source: The Times October 31, 2017 00:00 UTC