Kevin Hart Sues Tasha K For Extortion Releases Signed Court Documents Between Himself Assistant
Summary
➡ An employee (Shakes) signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with Kevin Hart and his affiliates for $30,000 per year. Despite acknowledging this agreement during an interview, Shakes allegedly revealed confidential information, some of which was false and defamatory. The interview presenter demanded a $250,000 “ransom” from Hart before releasing the interview, which was refused. Hart’s legal team is pursuing a legal trial for violations of the NDA, defamation, and interference with contractual relations among other charges.
➡ The text discusses an ongoing legal case, highlighting the importance of confidentiality agreements, particularly a specific nondisclosure agreement signed in 2017. The legal team’s competence is commended, and the emphasis is placed on how the case intends to serve as an example to deter similar conduct in the future.
Transcript
But if you go out and you check it out again, basically she was telling all, she was saying that he got a side chick or he has side chicks, used to bust him down inside of the office, got a shower in there. She said hey to his wife and she was just on there. Basically, in my opinion, probably lying or exaggerating some form of the truth in order to throw her former employer under the bus.
Now, Anton from antondengiels. com did some vigorous searches. And in those searches, and I’m going to continue to read super chats throughout the show. In those searches, I was not able to acquire just based off of a simple Google search or looking on all of these sites. Everybody was referencing everything that everybody else was saying on their sites or page six of the New York Post in order to speak to this article.
So I had to go over into the LA county online site court system shout out to you. I’m going to be reading that super chat shortly. I had to go over to ao shout out to you. I had to go over to the LA county or the LA court courts online court system in order to pay for the actual lawsuit so that I could present it to you guys today.
So everybody that you see with the documentation or everybody that you see review this, they had to go over and then pay for the 25 page document in order to present it to you guys online. So I had to do a little bit of investigative journalism last night and this morning, but we here now, and I want to present this to you guys. All right, so we’re going to go over it.
You know how I like to do. I like to read it and I like to get a little bit animated because I want to bring it to life. Okay, so this is the court document, and it was filed over in Los Angeles by Kevin Hart and his team, and they are suing. And they wasted no time shortly after seeing this. All right? And this was filed on the 26th, which was right after Christmas.
What a way to ruin your Christmas. Thank you, Tasha K. And former assistant. And so it says that it’s basically attorneys for Kevin Hart and Khart Enterprises in the Superior court of California county of Los Angeles, Kevin Hart and Khart Enterprises is the plaintiff. And Misha Shakes, who was the assistant, and Latasha Transrina, Kibi and Kibi Studios, LLC, a Georgia limited liability company, are the defendants. So he’s suing.
Kevin Hart is suing both Tasha Kay and the former assistant. Okay. All right, now, we all got to remember that Cardi B sued Tasha Kay, won somewhere between three and $4 million in court. And I had heard that Cardi B was actually considering forgiving. Once Tasha Kay had went on, like, a little crying stream asking for forgiveness, I’m a mother and everything like that. And then Cardi B was considering it.
But then after several different things happened, including the interview with Will Smith’s alleged former assistant, Cardi B said, no, I’m never going to forgive you. I’m never going to forgive what you’re doing. And so their complaint is for civil extortion, breach of contract, intentional interference with contractual relations, invasion of privacy, and defamation. All right, let’s read that one more time. Civil extortion, breach of contract, intentional interference with contractual relations, invasion of privacy, and defamation.
All right, so that is what the lawsuit is for. We’re going to get to the thick of things. Kevin Hart is the plaintiff. Comedian, chief executive author of Kevin Hart Entertainment plaintiffs. We already got all of that. That’s her website. Not limited to Instagram and YouTube. Specializes in posting salacious and unverified. See, this is key unverified news, I. E. Gossip about celebrities. Now, a lot of times you see me, you say, anton, will you talk about this? Anton, will you talk about that? Well, I can talk about it and I can give my opinion on it, but I won’t state that something is a fact, because you don’t want to spread false information about anybody.
You want to actually operate in good faith and truth, especially as a content creator that has a significant platform that impacts other people. I wouldn’t want it done to me. And so I don’t do it to other people. I wait until the facts come out, or I wait till somebody says something and give their opinion about it, usually the person that is involved in it, and then I react to that.
Okay. It says that she has established a history of posting defamatory and otherwise improper content regarding celebrities. For instance, most recently, she was found liable and damages exceeding $3 million in a defamation lawsuit by musician Cardi B. They cited that as a reference point. Okay. Plaintiffs are unaware of the true names or capacities of the defendant sued herein under fictitious names, and then they go on to name Kibi Kibi studios as defendants, and so on and so forth.
Jurisdiction facts common to all causes of action. And this is where it gets good. During the course of her employment with heart and heartbeat, shakes served as Hart’s personal assistant. That was the woman that went on Tasha Kay’s live. All right? It said that in said capacity, she was privy to certain confidential business and personal information regarding Hart, his family, friends, and associates, various heartbeat personnel, and employees at other heart affiliated companies.
As a result, she appeared to be in a position to disseminate or confirm allegations about those persons and entities, regardless of their truth or falsity. So basically, she was a person that had or was privy to information based off of the fact that she was Kevin Hart’s assistant. Who can you trust? Who can you trust? You know all about me because you are the person that takes care of personally, all of the things that I need you to take care of.
You’re an extension of me as my personal assistant, which is one of the reasons why I’m very careful about who I bring into my inner circle or even who I spend my time with, because everybody or somebody sometimes can have an agenda that won’t be ideal for your situation. Okay, so basically, she was his personal assistant, and she knew all about what his life was like. Upon shakes enter an employment relationship with heartbeat.
Shakes and Heartbeat entered into that certain confidentiality agreement on August eigth, 2017. And the confidentiality agreement, a true and correct copy of it, is attached. So they attach the confidentiality agreement and they’re referencing it, and they defined it as confidential information to include the following matters, matters concerning the business operation, business ideas, know how, techniques, methodologies, business relationships of any of the protected parties, with protected parties defined to include heartbeat’s owner, its officers, directors, shareholders, clients, families, friends, associates, contractees, including, but not limited to, affiliated entities of the owner.
The confidentiality further provided that shakes expressly agrees that recipients shall not, directly or indirectly. So it don’t matter if you do it as a mistake or you think that you did something that you were supposed to do, but you didn’t do it, you gonna be held liable for it. Anything that’s related, attached to me or anybody that I have interactions with, they are absolutely protected by this confidentiality agreement.
Okay. Verbally or otherwise publish, disseminate, disclose, or call to be published, disseminated or disclosed heretoin or herein. Disclosure. Any confidential information to any person, firm, or entity whatsoever. Nobody, nothing. Not to artificial intelligence. Do not put my business out there, that is a part of the confidentiality agreement on or around October 22, 2020. Shakes on one hand, on the one hand, and Hart, on behalf of himself, heartbeat, and all heart affiliated companies, on the other hand, entered into that certain mutual release nondisclosure agreement dated October 22, 2020.
The NDA, a true and correct copy of the NDA is attached hereto as exhibit b. The NDA called for Hart to pay shakes 30,000 per year for a period of three years, along with other considerations. Now, this is basically saying that she signed both the NDA, a non disclosure agreement, and a confidentiality agreement. So she absolutely is required to be bound by those documents. Now, let me rewind here, because I think that somebody missed something upon entering her employment relationship with heartbeat shakes.
And this is zero point twelve. Shakes entered into a certain confidentiality agreement dated August eigth. That was the confidentiality agreement. And then on August 22, 2020, so that was in 2017. That was the confidentiality agreement. In 2020, entered into a certain mutual release and nondisclosure agreement dated October. So they entered into the NDA in 2023 years later, after she had already entered into a confidentiality agreement on 2017.
And this was for the NDA. I guess they were paying her 30,000 a year for the NDA, along with other considerations. And that’s what this is referencing to the NDA called for heart to pay shakes 30,000 per year for a period of three years. So I’m assuming that this was in addition to whatever her salary is. The fact that they were compensating her for signing an NDA also makes it more ironclad.
The NDA defines as confidential, informing the following private and confidential information which is not generally known to the public or readily accessible or ascertainable by proper means by others, and is subject to reasonable efforts to maintain its secrecy pertaining to any of the following protected parties. Kevin Hart is affiliated companies Khart Enterprises, blah blah blah blah. Their officers, directors, and executives Kevin Hart’s family members, past, present, and future.
Their affiliates, including their officers, directors, and executives. So nobody that’s associated with Kev Shakes shall not directly or indirectly disclose, exploit, or disseminate confidential information to any person or entity whatsoever, including, but not limited to, friends, family members, journalists, tabloids, television or radio programs, websites or Internet, social media, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, et cetera, all collectively. Third parties are threatened to do so. So don’t threaten me that you’re going to do it and you can’t talk to nobody you can’t talk to the person that you lay next to every day.
When you come in and you do your job, you keep your mouth shut. You take care of your business and what goes on in these offices and in my household with my people, family members, and anybody that’s attached to me, friends, whoever. You keep your mouth shut. Don’t go home pillow talking. Don’t talk about my business. Don’t go spreading rumors. Don’t start giving false information. Don’t even assume that you’re going to do so.
Don’t even threaten that you’re going to do so or you’re going to be in violation of my nondisclosure agreement and confidentiality agreement. Okay, that’s what this is saying. She had a duty to preserve her confidential information, both as defined in the confidentiality agreement and the NDA as confidential. The NDA included an attorney’s fees clause providing, as follows, any and any proceeding arising out or related to this agreement or its enforcement, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover all his or her reasonable attorneys fees, costs and expenses incurred in or around November 2023.
Kibi conducted and recorded an interview, the interview that she did with the assistant with Shakes, wherein Shakes made various statements regarding heart and his family, heartbeat personnel and or employees or other heart affiliated entities. Notwithstanding the truth or falsity of any such statements, Shakes would only have had knowledge regarding sub subjects as a result of her employment with heart and heartbeat. Such information is necessarily would have constituted confidentiality information as defined by the NBA, such as information regarding alleged personal relationships affecting the employment status of personnel at Hart affiliated companies and subjects such as Hart’s interactions with his family members.
The interview also included false and defamatory statements regarding Hart and certain legal disputes in which he has been involved. During the interview, Kibi asked Shakes whether she was subject to any non disclosure agreements. So during the interview, Tasha Kay not before, not after. In the interview, she asked her, are you subjected to any nondisclosure agreements which would prohibit you from disclosing a type of information that was in the subject of the interview? And she acknowledged that she was in fact a party to the nondisclosure agreement and claimed that the agreement had unspecified loopholes.
So whenever you start to find somebody that try to find loopholes in what you all doing, that’s not even a trustworthy person in the first place, it’s not even a trustworthy person. Anybody that looks for a loophole in the document that they signed for employment and was compensated accordingly is a person that you should not even have in your circle in the first place. Unfortunately for somebody like a Kevin Hart, how could he have known? How could he have predicted that somebody would do something so egregious and go and talk to Tasha Kay about what is going on, allegedly in his personal life? Not even true, according to these documents.
A false statement. Everything is wrong. Absolutely lies. And you out here using your credibility as an employee for my company to substantiate lies against me and my family. And ain’t no telling what he’s dealing with in this household, right? And she broke her promise. 23 in and around November 2023, an unidentified individual telephoned a heart representative stating that the individual was affiliated with Kibi. So somebody that was affiliated with Tasha K called Heartbeat or called a heart representative and that Kibi had conducted the interview with Shakes and that the interview would be included information or allegations that Kibi representative claimed would be damaging to Hart’s reputation.
The individual stated that Kibi will publish the interview unless Hart paid a ransom. Disrespectful. So she called them and said that you got to pay a ransom of a quarter of a million dollars or else. Pay a quarter of a million dollars or else. On or around November 17, 2023, she posted a teaser for the interview on YouTube, wherein she, along with shakes, touted the supposed salacious and damaging nature of the interview.
The teaser video clearly was intended as a threat to heart that a more detailed interview would be published if the ransom was not paid. The teaser included a statement from Kibi at the 206 mark of the video specifically warning that when you don’t pay, we have to get the money by any means necessary. This dude got a monster, monster legal team out here in these streets. His representatives contacted the police immediately and did not pay the ransom that she was demanding.
Yo, shout out to Kevin Hart for not allowing for somebody to bend them over because I don’t believe in terrorists. I don’t believe in supporting terrorists. I don’t believe in negotiating with terrorists. And I’m finally happy that it’s somebody that stood up for themselves and said, you know what? I don’t care what you got to say. I don’t care what kind of teaser you put up. I don’t care how many times you call.
I don’t care for how much money you ask for, whether it’s $50 or $250,000, you not getting a dime. But instead I’m going to come after you. I’m with the smoke and I support Kevin Hart as a result of it. It goes on to say on or around November 22, Hart’s attorney, Dante Mills wrote to Kibi demanded that the cease and desist of all of her legally impermissible actions toward Hart and that she refrain from publishing the interview.
A true and corrected copy of that cease and desist letter is attached hereto as exhibit C. In a cease and desist communication, Mr. Mills specifically advised Keebe that Hart had contacted law enforcement about her threats. The cease and desist letter also advises that she advises that Hart and Shakes were parties to the NDA and that shakes participation in the interview was a violation of the NDA, that Kibi’s publication of the interview would constitute intentional interference with contractual relations, in addition to various other criminal torturous conduct that Kibi had engaged in up to that point, Kibi advised Hart’s representatives that she would in fact be published in an interview that evening, approximately 06:00 p.
m. Kibi published an interview on her website, tasha K. Live, specifically at the link, and they give the link to her podcast and charge viewers $12 per month subscription fee in order to access and view the interview. Good God. And then it goes into all of the different codes and a breach of contract interference. Plaintiffs and shakes are parties to the NDA, which is supported by a valid consideration, not including, including, but not limited to Hart’s payment of $90,000 to shakes, false allegations, statements regarding her and her family members, a direct approximate result of Shakespeare’s material breaches.
This is bad. This is very bad. As a direct result, approximate result of Kibi’s conduct, plaintiffs have suffered damages in the amount according to proof, including, without limitation, not less than $90,000 Hart paid as consideration to the NDA, in addition to the damages and further amounts according to proof at trial. So Kevin Hart is actually looking to take this to trial. He said, no, no negotiation, no, none of that.
We’re going to go all the way to trial, and I’m going to have your butt. I’m going to have your head on a stick on a platter, and I’m not having it. Contractual relationship under the NDA were done with oppression, fraud, malice, with intention of depriving plaintiffs of their personal liberty, property, or legal rights, and otherwise causing injury, and such actions were despicable conduct that subjected plaintiffs to unjust hardship and conscious disregard of plaintiffs rights, such that plaintiffs are entitled to recover.
Punitive and exemplary. Let me look at the word exemplary. I’m a C student. A deserving imitation. Commendable courage was exemplary, also deserving limitation because of excellence let me look up a little bit more. Serving as an example, instance or illustration, serving as a warning, basically excellent. Worthy of synonyms is definitive, quintessential. Okay. All right. I think that he deserves an exemplary. Where was it at? Exemplary. Exemplary damages.
I think so too. Exceptional damages in addition to all actual and statutory damages to which the plaintiffs are entitled in order to set an example. They said that they want to make an example out of you to deeter such conduct. She messing it up for the whole gang, gang, gang, gang, gang out here. And that’s why I don’t just run out and just say, hey, this person did this or this person did that, unless I know for a fact or unless it comes from somebody that’s just making an accusation based off of their own interaction with it, and I just allow for them to be able to say what they want to say.
I am not the one out here that’s going to be out here talking about stuff or telling that I know that this happened. I don’t know nothing. All I know. Look at this. This is the actual nondisclosure agreement. Hold on, wait. Let me go back to this real quick. They attached the nondisclosure agreement. This is the confidentiality agreement. She signed it on eight. Eight 2017. Maisha shake. Wow.
This dummy. Good God. What an idiot. So she signed it. Signature, initial dated it. And this is the NDA. Wow. This was worth the price of admission right here, baby. This is worth it. So they attached it. They filed the initial paperwork in order to get to the bag, and so they gonna make an example out of this? This isn’t even about money, because allegedly, according to Tasha Kay, she don’t even have the money to be able to pay Cardi B.
But they want to make an example out of not only Tasha Kay, but the assistant. And I think that they’re doing an excellent job, because if you go into something and you say that I’m an assistant of somebody and I’m assigned this confidentiality. Yo, we don’t have to go through their paperwork according to what our lawyer put together to make sure that we got all of our bases covered so that we can make sure that our confidentiality agreements and our NDAs is the same as theirs.
You know what I’m saying? I think that Kevin hurt has an exceptional legal team. And so we gonna go ahead and send this documentation over there today. Documentation. And we’re gonna make sure that we get all of our documentation in accordance to what they documentation is because theirs seem to be pretty ironclad. You know what I’m saying? So that is the documents that I had to pay for from La courts in order to present to you guys.
And that is what’s being filed in superior court over there on the west coast. .
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