The woman featured on a sex tape with Kevin Hart has confirmed they had an ‘intimate relationship’ – as photos emerged of them partying together in a Las Vegas nightclub last month.
Montia Sabbag, 27, broke her silence Wednesday morning saying she was a victim like Hart and that she had nothing to do with the extortion attempts made against him.
‘I’m not an extortionist. I had nothing to do with these recordings,’ Sabbag said at a press conference with her celebrity lawyer, Lisa Bloom.
Kevin Hart and 27-year-old Montia Sabbag were pictured (above) partying together at Marquee Nightclub at the Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas on August 19
These nightclub photos were taken on the same wild weekend of partying that the extortion video was filmed. Sabbag is pictured above talking into Hart’s ear
It comes after Hart and Sabbag were pictured together at Marquee Nightclub in the Cosmopolitan hotel on August 19, TMZ reports.
The nightclub photos were taken on the same wild weekend of partying that the extortion video was filmed. Hart can be seen almost between Sabbag’s leg in one photo, while she was pictured talking into his ear in another.
Sabbag, who was identified on Tuesday, was filmed cavorting with Hart in the footage that forced him to publicly apologize to his pregnant wife for last weekend. He spoke out after receiving demands for $10 million from the extortionist who is now being hunted by the FBI.
Photos and videos of Hart and Sabbag from that weekend formed part of the footage that Hart said he was being blackmailed over.
One photo released this week showed Hart laughing and resting his head on Sabbag’s chest.
According to TMZ sources who have viewed the whole tape, the footage later shows a couple having sex on a bed and a man, who looks like Hart, walking around naked.
Sabbag’s lawyer insisted she has nothing to do with the video being filmed or with the extortion attempt that came in the form of an email.
The lawyer said Sabbag would sit a lie-detector test if he paid her $420,000.
Hart is pictured above speaking to Sabbag in the crowded nightclub. These photos formed part of the footage that Hart said he was being blackmailed over
The woman who appears with Kevin in the steamy video he was extorted over was identified on Tuesday as a 27-year-old travelling stripper Montia Sabbag
Hart was pictured on a lunch date in Los Angeles on Tuesday with his pregnant wife Eniko Parrish after it had been alleged he had gotten caught up in an extortion deal
Hart was pictured for the first time with his wife Eniko Parrish on Tuesday when they put on a united front to step out for lunch in Los Angeles.
A source told PEOPLE that Hart was struggling in the wake of the extortion scandal.
‘Kevin’s not doing too well,’ the source said. ‘He’s really embarrassed that all of his personal business is out there for everyone to see.
‘It obviously hasn’t been an easy week for him or Eniko and having it come out in public has affected their marriage, but she is determined to stand by him.
‘He also has a lot of friends defending him, so he has a lot of support.’
The scandal erupted on Saturday when Hart posted a cryptic Instagram video apologizing to his wife.
In a video on Saturday, Hart apologized to his family for an ‘error in judgement’ but he did not reveal specifically what he had done
He did not specify what he had done, but admitted to putting himself in an environment where ‘only bad things can happen’ and said someone was trying to extort him.
‘I’m not going to let a person have financial gain from my mistakes.
‘In this particular situation, that’s what was attempted. I said I’d rather fess up to my mistakes.’
On Sunday, it was revealed that the FBI was probing the extortion attempt and the picture from the tape came the following day.
Sources have told TMZ that the FBI knows who the woman is that interacted with Kevin and they believe that she is the one making the demands.