Kevin Hart is suing a familiar youtuber, Tasha K added, again, perhaps suing her for defamation. The comedian Kevin Hart has filed an extortion and defamation lawsuit against YouTube personality Tasha K. After first sending the blogger a cease-and-desist letter on November 22. [00:00:20] Controversial bloggers accused of trying to extort the actor for $250, 000 by threatening to publish a scathing interview with his former assistant, Maisha Shakes. You see, I think a lot of times people get these cease-and-desist letters in [00:00:37] the age of the Internet and they think slow it off. Freedom of speech, I'll say what I want, perhaps don't know the laws or what else is coming. There's more here, further details Hart reportedly first sent the blogger that cease-and-desist letter in November. Advising her he would not pay the 250,000 he asserts [00:00:56] one of her representatives requested to quash the interview. Sit down with Shakes claims Hart, who was previously involved in a cheating scandal while his wife, Eniko Hart, is pregnant, is a serial cheater and gambler. Eniko forgave her husband following the 2017 cheating [00:01:13] scandal after he offered a public apology online. According to her husband's rep Donte Mills, someone from his team was contacted by another individual who was affiliated with Tasha K. Atlanta Black Star with the details here. The ride along actors team also reportedly informed the police about the alleged [00:01:32] extortion attempt and told investigators that she threatened to release the interview. Which supposedly includes scandalous assertions against Hart, the claim states Hart and his representatives contacted the police and did not pay the ransom that he was demanding. [00:01:48] That's all in the complaint. Investigators were also directed to a teaser video the blogger shared on YouTube and Instagram showing Shakes having a sit down for the show Unwind with Tasha K. Videos captioned explosive Kevin Hart's PA tells all gambling addict, [00:02:10] cheater extortion 4 million DUI payoff. It is time for Hollywood to hear this story, especially because a lot of people are locked in non-disclosures and they're not able to talk and protect themselves, said Shakes. But if you have to protect the person you're working for, [00:02:27] where's your protection? She also claimed that Hart played too much poker and twice impregnated an employee from Hart's company, HeartBeat studios. She also claimed she once told his wife, Eniko, Kevin is cheating on you with a girl named Mixed Morgan. She's his flight attendant, she's on his plane. [00:02:47] Hart is also suing shakes for breach of contract defamation after she signed a confidentiality agreement in 2017 and again in 2020 in exchange for 30,000 a year for three years. The suit states that her interview breached that contract due to false and [00:03:04] defamatory statements regarding Hart and certain legal disputes in which he had been involved. Want to just pause there? I tend not to like non-disclosures when you have a ton of victims, but I'm still looking for the part where assistant even in her allegations. [00:03:22] Which are up in the air and he says are false, where do they involve you not being protected? Why do you have to tell these stories that we don't even know are true and are said to be defamatory false? [00:03:38] I'm still waiting for it, perhaps we'll get to that part. Suit also points out Tasha Kay's controversial history of posting defamatory and otherwise improper content regarding celebrities, such as her defamation case with Cardi B 2018. Tasha claimed Cardi had contracted an STD and abused drugs, [00:03:57] one year later, Cardi filed a lawsuit and admitted during federal court that the lies caused her to suffer from suicidal thoughts. Cardi won the case and a judge ordered the gossip blogger to pay the rapper nearly $4 million. [00:04:12] Prior to this latest suit, Tasha K had quartered possible legal trouble with the Smith family. Last month, she conducted an interview with a former friend of Will Smith, who claimed during the interview that he walked in on Will Smith and Dwayne Martin having sex. I hate to even repeat it, I hate to even repeat it, tell you what's out there. [00:04:33] When asked about this accusation by TMZ Jada Pinkett, Smith denied the allegation and said, we're suing. Currently, no confirmation of Tasha K would be targeted in such potential suit, it's all so messy. And I wonder about how someone sleeps at night, sometimes people have to sleep with [00:04:52] the tv on just because they need a little background noise. Other times it's because it's to keep what else is going on from running through their head all night, okay? Things that maybe they've done. But when you pedal in this 24/7 unless she has a GoFundMe for children who are homeless, perhaps, I don't know, I haven't read about that. [00:05:12] But she seems to this is her family business, this is her main source, Aida. This is what she does, and as a comedian, I think Kevin Hart, who's wildly funny, is saying, I may be funny on stage and I may do a lot of funny movies. [00:05:29] But I'm not your punching bag and I'm not going to take it, what did you hear? >> Speaker 2: Well, your voice is so soothing. [LAUGH]. >> Speaker 1: I put you to sleep is what you're really saying, and it's okay. No, not at all, you made me calm, cuz usually I come out. But what I will say is, first of all, [00:05:48] Kevin Hart is someone who's employed me and created opportunities for me beyond. I went to the JFL competition in Montreal because Kevin Hart decided to create a space. >> Wow. [00:06:03] >> Mediums of color, who, historically, don't really get invited much in numbers, or he made it so that we could go, and he created an opportunity for us to go there. I know that everyone who works with Kevin is a millionaire because his squad, [00:06:19] he's taken care of in terms of. He's created opportunities and paved the way for a lot of people, he's still a human being, right? And when I hear these stories, like the one about Kevin and the one about Cardi, why are comedians and entertainers being held to a higher standard than even public officials? [00:06:38] You have a president who has multiple children from multiple women, who is on trial right now for criminal offenses, who tried to take the country and deliver an insurrection. Delivered, instigated an insurrection, and [00:06:56] we're worried about what Kevin Hart is doing. Mind you, everybody who's consuming this has probably experienced any of these. Whether Cardi B had an STI or whether Kevin drank and drove, [00:07:13] not anything that's ideal, but everything that is human and almost most people can relate to is headlines. And that someone uses that and weaponizes it is so disheartening, [00:07:30] it's like, use your powers for good and not evil. >> Speaker 2: Mm-mh. >> What kind of legacy do you wanna leave behind. Yeah, when you sign a contract, too, Aida? I'm sorry if I interrupted, when do people anymore just abide by the terms? I guess if you're my sister and my husband's cheating on me, again, [00:07:49] I don't even know if this is true. >> Speaker 1: No, you jump on the elevator and you beat him up. >> That's what you do, Solange, thank you, Solange. Okay, and if you're Beyonce, you just stand there, and you look beautiful, and my sister's got me. But if you're my husband's assistant, I don't know why you're involving yourself [00:08:06] in our relationship, even if there's something salacious or dirty going on. But I don't have a husband, so I don't care. They've got to decide who they are as a couple and what they wanna do, and they don't even have to explain it to me, who am I? [00:08:22] I don't understand why the assistant saying this has to be known. >> Speaker 2: You know why? Because everybody, not everybody, but so many people really wanna be famous. >> That part. They don't wanna be good, they don't wanna be great, [00:08:37] they don't wanna put in the work, they wanna do a beeline straight to the top and be trending, they want endorsement deals. They wanna be able to buy whatever they want, they wanna be able to live the life of the people that they see on television without knowing the blood, [00:08:52] sweat and tears that goes into it. Kevin Hart worked at a Payless shoe store before. >> Wow. >> And worked in stand up for 17 years before he became an overnight success, so I just think it's just very much, people wanna, they want the attention. [00:09:11] It's like an illness now. >> Yeah. >> It's like people seek fame and popularity at any cost, and it's just because they wanna be known, and that, the thing is that, how many of these have you seen? You get it for a few minutes and then the next story comes over, [00:09:30] we move over to the next cycle, and now you in court dealing with a lawsuit. >> Yeah. >> Trying to figure out how you're gonna pay this money, and everybody else has moved on, nobody cares anymore. Reebok is not gonna call you and say, hey, we're gonna create a shoe about you because you snitched on, it doesn't happen like that. [00:09:47] >> Speaker 1: And Kevin Hart's still gonna be working with Will Packer on hit movies, and he's still going to have specials, okay? >> He'll join you on HBO and other projects, and the sad part, I'll button it with this is you described a man who wanted to share the wealth, right? [00:10:04] He wanted to create opportunities, and I believe if you're invited into his inner circle, right? If you are connected to him, employed by him, he probably would have helped her reach her dreams honestly. [00:10:21] You worked very hard, so if he just said, here's an opportunity, but you didn't have the talent, you didn't have the gifts, you didn't have the work ethic, it's not going to work out. But if she really came to him purely and said, hey, I'm your assistant, I'm gonna do a great job, one day, he probably would have said, well, what's your goal? [00:10:37] They probably would have helped her. I don't know, you do, but that's the sense I get, give you the last word. >> Speaker 2: I believe that you get what you put out there, and the reality of it is that everybody is trying to make it and [00:10:54] with their mental health. If you have a family, whether you have $10 million in the bank or you have $10 in the bank, it doesn't exempt you from being a father, a husband, children. Kevin has children, you know what I mean? [00:11:09] Everybody has children, and that's not to say, we feel sorry for the poor millionaire, because that's where we are now. There is no nuance, two things can't be true at the same time anymore because it's either one thing or the other. But the reality of it is that what you're cultivating on this universe, [00:11:28] on this planet, is always rooted negativity. >> Mm-mh. >> And shooting shots at other people, specifically people who look like you, who already have to fight the fight in a country and in a world that is so [00:11:44] anti-black, so white supremacist, so racist. To sit and create your legacy and your empire based on shooting people down, what are you gonna cultivate? [00:11:59] >> Speaker 2: Yeah. >> It's just gonna come back into your, and I feel sad for people like that. I'm no one to judge who knows I've been targeted people have said things about me, aired out things about me, and it's hurtful cuz my children don't wanna be in the headlines. [00:12:19] They don't wanna be, that's why they're not on Instagram. They're not doing this, they don't want any parts of this business, and there are people dragging them in, talking about their dad and whatever, and that's just me. I don't have 10 million followers, I don't have. [00:12:35] So I just think that we have to remember our own humanity, not other people's, our own, while we're doing this stuff, cuz it feels so exciting to be involved in this kind of stuff. But what you got to remember is that, one, there are consequences for [00:12:53] all of the actions, and two, do you really wanna want your name to go down in history, always connected to something negative? >> Speaker 1: Yeah. >> Speaker 2: That's all I ask and I'm nobody to judge anybody, God bless them all, I hope they all win. >> Speaker 1: You're doing well with this peace thing you talked about at the top, [00:13:11] you're doing very well with it, and it's kind of giving me a Zen moment. But you're right about the children, who am I? I am nobody, there's people on the Internet met who still think I had a baby with an international basketball star. He barely let me interview him, okay? I had a daughter who came home and said, mommy, people are calling me Ava James. [00:13:28] I said, I'm so sorry, how do you feel about that? She said, I liked it, he's not your father, okay? It just is what it is, and I decided a long time ago that I don't know that woman, so I'm fine. But Kevin Hart said enough is enough, and we'll see where this goes, I'm rooting forum. [00:13:46] There's one thing that I was thinking about, but I'll tell you in the break, because I wanna stay Zen and peaceful, too Aida.