Former Republican Rep. George Santos has filed a lawsuit against late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and Disney, the parent company of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” home ABC, for fraud and copyright infringement after Kimmel paid $400 each for a series of Cameo videos from Santos for fake people. It doesn’t appear that he appreciates a joke at his expense.
In documents filed Saturday in New York and obtained by TheWrap, Santos insisted, “At the heart of this dispute lies the deliberate deception and wrongful appropriation of the Plaintiff’s digital content by the Defendants, orchestrated through the platform Cameo.com, where celebrities and public figures are meant to connect with their fans through personalized video messages.”