Kevin Hart claimed that his former assistant not solely made “false and defamatory” statements about him throughout her explosive sit-down with blogger Tasha Okay, but additionally allegedly eavesdropped throughout a few of his non-public “interactions.”
The comic stays embroiled in authorized drama with Tasha Okay, her firm Yellen Leisure, and his ex-staffer Miesha Shakes for alleged civil extortion, RadarOnline.com can verify.
Shakes labored for Hart from August 2017 to October 2020 and allegedly unfold malicious lies concerning the box-office sensation through the interview.
Hart acknowledged {that a} present affiliate reached out to his workforce earlier than the interview went stay, claiming they requested for $250k in alternate for the video not going up.
Hart famous in a brand new submitting obtained by RadarOnline.com that after he refused to pay, the video was printed on Dec. 22. He claimed that Shakes made inaccurate claims all through, together with that he supposedly “made a secret video recording of a romantic encounter I had in Las Vegas 2017 and that I confronted felony prices relating to that surreptitious recording.”
“I didn’t file any such video, and I’ve by no means been criminally charged with doing so,” the Jumanji star declared.
Hart then accused Shakes of divulging “non-public info” that was not publicly accessible or identified. “For instance, she spoke about my interactions with my spouse through the time interval after revelations relating to the Las Vegas incident had come to mild,” the courtroom submitting acknowledged.
In line with the docs, he vented, “I perceive from talking with my safety personnel, and Shakes admitted through the interview, that Shakes obtained a number of the info she mentioned within the interview by covertly listening by means of the partitions, along with her ear to the wall, to non-public interactions occurring behind closed doorways at our workplaces.”