Former Rep. George Santos is suing Jimmy Kimmel.
The 35-year-old former consultant, who’s going through 23 fraud-related prices, claims that the 56-year-old late-night tv host used faux names to request Cameo movies from George Santos and then misused the clips on his discuss present.
The copyright infringement lawsuit claims fraud, breach of contract and unjust enrichment, and is looking for at the least $750,000 in damages, by way of The Hill.
The lawsuit was filed within the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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George stated that Jimmy submitted at the least 14 requests for clips on Cameo. Disney and ABC have been additionally each named as defendants within the go well with.
He allegedly gave “phony names and narratives,” and despatched requests from “fake user profiles created by Kimmel as part of the fraud.” The host additionally “chose the personal use licenses for all the Cameo videos with the intention to violate such licenses by broadcasting and commercially exploiting the Cameo videos on national television.”
According to the lawsuit, the movies have been used on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in December, with a few of them performed throughout a section titled “Will Santos Say It?”
“Could you imagine if I get sued by George Santos for a fraud,” Jimmy Kimmel beforehand joked on the present.
“I mean how good would that be? It would be like a dream come true. So since I started buying his videos his rates went way up to $500 a piece. He should be thanking me for buying these videos.”
Find out extra about why George Santos was expelled from Congress.
