A woman who appeared in a 2017 sex tape with Kevin Hart is suing him for $60 million (R886m).
Montia Sabbag, 28, claims she was secretly recorded while having consensual sex with the 40-year-old comedian in a room at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas.
And she has accused the actor, his former pal Jonathan “JT’ Jackson, and the hotel of “emotional distress, violations of privacy and negligence”.
In 2018, JT was arrested for extortion after being accused of trying to leak the tape, but Sabbag is now accusing Hart of allowing Jackson to set up a hidden video recording device in the hotel room, TMZ reports.
According to court documents, Sabbag alleges the incident was arranged to “promote [Hart’s] Irresponsible Tour which was a record-breaking comedy tour and to increase his overall pop culture status”.
She is also demanding a trial by jury.
After news of the tape broke, Kevin issued an apology to his wife, Eniko Hart, 35, and children.
He said: “I made a bad error in judgment and I put myself in a bad environment where only bad things can happen and they did. And in doing that, I know that I’m going to hurt the people closest to me, who I’ve talked to and apologised to, that would be my wife and my kids.
“And I just, you know, it’s a s***ty moment. It’s a s***ty moment when you know you’re wrong and there’s no excuses for your wrong behaviour.
“At the end of the day man, I just simply have got to do better.
“But I’m also not going to allow a person to have financial gain off of my mistakes and in this particular situation that was what was attempted. I said I’d rather fess up to my mistakes.”