Kevin Hart Lawsuit Against Ex-Assistant for Blackmail Gets Uglier
Comedian Kevin Hart is fighting back against gossip blogger LaTasha Kebe (better known as Tasha K) and his former assistant Miesha Shakes, who he says shook him down for a quarter million dollars and violated an NDA, respectively.
Hart first filed a defamation and extortion lawsuit against the pair in December, after Shakes allegedly broke her NDA with Hart for a sit down interview with Tasha K during which she exposed “matters related to the private lives and employment status of individuals employed by [Kevin Hart Enterprises],” according to the filing. Shakes had previously parted ways with Hart’s employment on “negative terms,” the filing also says.
In the interview with Tasha K, the filing says that Shakes stated that Hart “had engaged [in] an intimate relationship with a woman in [his] employ” and “also discussed Hart’s personnel decisions surrounding that incident, all private information,” as described in the lawsuit.