Jonathan Jackson has filed a lawsuit for $12million claiming that Hart did not honour an agreement between them 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.
Kevin Hart. (Photo by Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/WireImage) 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. It also.
