Kevin Hart sued for breach of contract by former friend in sex tape saga

nme.com:

Kevin Hart has been sued for breaching a contract with his former friend Jonathan Jackson relating to an alleged extortion attempt involving a sex tape.In 2017, Hart posted on social media that he had made a “bad error in judgement”, which led to an undisclosed individual making an extortion attempt against him.A year later, the comedian spoke of his “shock” and “hurt” after his friend Jonathan Jackson was arrested for extortion charges in relation to a sex tape.

Jackson had allegedly attempted to blackmail Hart, supposedly threatening to release a video he secretly recorded of the star having sex with a woman in Las Vegas.

Jackson denied the charges, which were eventually dropped.In 2021, Hart posted a video on Instagram about the whole episode, saying he was happy to be “moving on” from that chapter in his life.However, that post is now the subject of a new $12million (£9.3million) lawsuit, filed by Jackson in Los Angeles.

The suit, which has been obtained by Rolling Stone, claims that Hart’s post breached a contract between the two.The suit argues that Jackson and Hart signed a “meticulously negotiated” settlement three months before the Instagram post, and the contract stipulated that Hart had to use “specific verbiage” that would “publicly exonerate” Jackson.