Jimmy Kimmel slams ‘preposterous’ George Santos lawsuit: ‘Like getting sued for paternity by Nick Cannon’

nypost.com:

to a complaint filed Saturday in Manhattan federal court, Santos claims Kimmel duped him into producing over a dozen personalized videos through the video platform Cameo, which Kimmel then featured on his ABC talk show.Santos was expelled from the House of Representatives Dec.

1, a little more than a year after he won the election, despite fabricating much of his personal and professional history, lying about his campaign’s finances and defrauding donors.Among other things, Santos lied about attending prep school, attending Baruch College and NYU, working at Goldman Sachs, his mother dying in the 9/11 terror attacks, employing victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting, founding a pet rescue charity and getting mugged.

Following his ouster, Santos began shilling his image on Cameo, where celebrities can sell personalized videos. There, he unknowingly made at least 14 clips for pseudonymous requests from Kimmel for $500 a pop, according to the complaint.In addition to allegedly violating Cameo’s terms of service and Santos’ copyright, the suit claims Kimmel committed fraud by using aliases to solicit videos “for the sole purpose of capitalizing on and ridiculing [Santos’] gregarious personality” — and even bragged on his show about his duplicity.Santos is seeking at least $750,000 in damages.

ABC and Disney are also named in the complaint.“Jimmy, sorry that my Christmas gift to you came late, but here’s to making wishes come true,” Santos told The Post. “I hope you enjoy reading your lawsuit for fraud that you’ve been looking forward to.”Kimmel further explained on his show, “George has rudely filed a lawsuit against me, our show, and the Walt Disney company, because we did a nice thing.