Photos: The man behind Kevin Hart's sex-tape extortion, caught! And it's his friend

One of Kevin Hart’s longtime friends was arrested earlier this week after he was accused of trying to extort the comedian with an alleged sex tape that was filmed last summer.

According to TMZ, Jonathan Todd Jackson is now facing two felony counts related to the scandal: one is for attempted extortion and the other for extortion by threatening letter. Jackson, who also goes by “J.T.,” has reportedly been in Hart’s life for the past 15 years, and has appeared in multiple films like S.W.A.T., Naked, and Hart’s 2014 comedy Think Like a Man Too.
Hart was caught up in another cheating scandal back in July, when Radar Online published a paparazzi-filmed video that supposedly showed the Jumanji star cheating on his wife, Eniko Parish Hart, with an unidentified woman. The following month, Jackson allegedly attempted to extort an undisclosed amount of money from the 38-year-old actor, using a video that supposedly showed Hart’s sexual encounter with a woman who wasn’t his wife.

Mind blown...Hurt...at a lost for words and simply in complete disbelief at the moment. WOW

— Kevin Hart (@KevinHart4real) May 2, 2018

This is one cool ass dude right here yall. Mad respect for the homie. #nohashtagsneeded

A post shared by Jt Jackson (@jtactionjackson) on Aug 3, 2017 at 6:19pm PDT