Kevin Hart is being sued by a former friend for $12 million. The 'Get Hard' star has been accused of breaching a 2021 written settlement agreement that called on him to publicly exonerate Jonathan 'J.T.
' Jackson from "baseless extortion allegations" relating to the 45-year-old actor's 2017 sex tape and cheating scandal. Jackson was investigated after footage showing Kevin getting intimate with a woman who wasn't his wife Eniko Parrish in his suite at Las Vegas' Cosmopolitan hotel was made public, and after initially being charged with offences including one count each of attempted extortion and extortion by threatening letter, the entire case was eventually dropped. Jackson claimed it was his former friend and his lawyers who had helped initiate both a raid on his house and subsequent charges.
He is suing for breach of written contract, fraud and intentional infliction of emotional distress. He said in court documents obtained by 'Entertainment Tonight': "In the aftermath of the scandal, false extortion claims were filed against [Jackson], resulting in [Jackson] being wrongly accused. "Although Hart did not personally accuse [Jackson] at this stage, he contributed to the initiation of these false claims.
" The documents stated Kevin "claimed to have received an extortion email" on April 27, 2018 from someone "demanding 20 bitcoins to prevent the release of the sex tape, which had already been publicly released eight months earlier...
"During [Jackson's] arrest on April 30, 201.
