Kevin Hart Being Dragged Back To Court in $1 Million Battle
Kevin Hart’s ex-business partners are dragging the comedian back to court in their $1 million battle.
According to court documents obtained by The Blast, Hart’s former partners, iGo Marketing & Entertainment, have filed an appeal in their ongoing legal dispute.
iGo Marketing & Entertainment sued Hart accusing him of owing them commissions. A judge recently sided with them and ordered Hart to pay up $701,593.73.
The company believed the $701k judgment was improperly calculated. iGo Marketing demanded the judgment be increased to $952,793.54.
Hart asked the judge to deny the $1 million request. A judge agreed and denied iGo’s motion to increase the amount. The case was closed days later.
However, iGo Marketing has now informed Hart they are appealing the decision over the additional money. Hart will now have to go back to court and fight the appeal.
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Back in 2017, iGo Marketing & Entertainment sued Hart claiming they entered into a deal with him to negotiate marketing and celebrity tie-in deals on his behalf. iGo has worked with Jerry Seinfeld, Jamie Foxx, John Legend and many others.
They claim their deal with Hart called for them to get paid 15% on any deal they negotiated for Hart.
In the lawsuit, iGo claimed they secured numerous deals for Hart over the years with the likes of Miller-Coors, Coke-Zero, Vitamin Water, Electronic Arts, two deals with Caesars Entertainment, the Cosmopolitan Hotel and a deal with Verizon Wireless.
They claim Hart always made good on the deal … that is, until it came to a deal with Rally Healthcare in 2015.
iGo claims they negotiated a three-year deal between Kevin Hart and Rally that called for the comedian to get paid partly in cash and part in stock options.
In 2015, Hart then terminated the deal with iGo but they claim that didn’t allow him to stop paying the commission on deals they locked down. They claim Hart did not pay them their 15% on the third year option of the deal or for the value of the stock option.
They sued for breach of contract and sought no less than $1.8 million from the comedian.
Hart responded to the lawsuit, claiming he never had a written agreement with iGo. He also claimed since the third-year option to the Rally deal kicked in after they parted ways, he didn’t owe them 15% of that money.
Hart counter-sued iGo for allegedly using his name and likeness for marketing on their website without his permission.
The comedian demanded the lawsuit against him be dismissed and he be awarded unspecified damages for the use of his image. He also sought an injunction against his ex-business partner from continuing to use his name and likeness to market themselves.
Hart recently had a separate $7 million court trial postponed following his crash. The comedian was also hit with a $60 million lawsuit by his sex tape partner.
