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12/15/2010 // WPB, FL, USA // Personal Injury Lawyers News // Nicole Howley
New York, NY— Late-night television talk show host, Jimmy Kimmel, has been sued for one his comedic spoofs. A Borough Park man, known locally and on the Internet as the “Flying Rabbi,” filed the lawsuit on Monday, December 13, 2010 in the Brooklyn Supreme Court, as reported by the Baltimore Sun.
Dovid Sondik was the star of a YouTube video, titled the “Flying Rabbi,” which showed him raving in Yiddish in the street.
Kimmel reportedly ran a short in August on his television show “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” where Kimmel pokes fun at basketball superstar Lebron James for consulting with Rabbi Yishayahu Yosef Pinto.
Kimmel’s short depicts Kimmel receiving advice from an orthodox Jew, who is speaking furiously in Yiddish. But, the Jew was not Rabbi Yishayahu Yosef Pinto; it was Dovid Sandek.
Sondik’s lawyers claim that Sondik was just “goofing around” when the video was shot, and he never intended to be broadcasted to Kimmel’s 1.5 million viewers.
Sondik told the New York Post that, “it has caused me difficulty and pain.” He is not a rabbi, but he would often recite scripture to people in his neighborhood. “Now they think I’m a joke, a comedian.”
The lawsuit is seeking unspecified damages for appropriation of his likeness and violating YouTube’s service terms.
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