Kevin Hart Dealt Authorized Blow In Tasha Okay Defamation Case

A Los Angeles County choose denied Kevin Hart’s request for a short lived restraining order in his authorized battle with Tasha Okay on Thursday (January 25). In accordance with Courthouse Information and Rolling Stone, Decide Mitchell Beckloff discovered no cause to make Tasha Okay take away a tell-all interview with Hart’s former assistant from her web site.

“I believe the request is overbroad,” the choose stated. “The request is imprecise. I’m undecided what ‘any content material regarding Kevin Hart’ is.”

Hart wished the choose to pressure Tasha Okay to take down the interview, which is behind a paywall. The comic claimed the interview defamed him and violated his ex-assistant’s NDA.

“There’s no questioning them,” Hart’s lawyer Donte Mills stated. “There are issues stated by the audio system which can be unlawful. It’s defamatory, it’s extortion, and it completely exhibits malice on their half. Not as soon as was there ever any declare stating that my shopper dedicated a criminal offense till this video. I believe that’s necessary. Adultery is one factor, however adultery is just not unlawful.”

Decide Beckloff was unconvinced, noting how Hart’s workforce didn’t submit a transcript of the interview. Mills informed the choose no transcript was filed as a result of the knowledge could be accessible by way of public data, defeating the aim of the momentary restraining order.

Hart filed his lawsuit over the tell-all interview in December 2023. He sued his ex-assistant Miesha Shakes and Tasha Okay for defamation, extortion and invasion of privateness.

The lawsuit particularly focused Shakes for breach of contract. Tasha Okay was accused of intentional interference with contractual relations.

Hart joined the rising record of celebrities who’ve sued Tasha Okay. The vlogger famously misplaced a defamation case to Cardi B with a jury awarding greater than $4 million to the rapper. Tasha Okay filed for chapter after shedding her attraction within the Cardi B case.