Last year George Santos denied he was ever a drag queen. Now he’s going to perform in drag online.

Disgraced gay former Congressman George Santos (R-NY) told a lot of lies about his past, including previously denying a part of his life where he was a drag queen in Brazil who went by Kitara Rivache, something queens in the Rio drag scene shared pictures and videos of with journalists.

Now that he’s no longer in Congress, Santos is apparently excited to perform in front of audiences again as Kitara.

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“Y’all weren’t ready for this drop,” Santos wrote on X. “I’ve decided to bring Kitara out of the closet after 18 years!”

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He then linked his Cameo account. Cameo is an app where people can pay celebrities—or George Santos—to send them greetings or short messages of encouragement. Santos started on the platform almost immediately after he got kicked out of Congress and has claimed that he’s making thousands of dollars from video requests on the platform.

He charges $275 for videos at the moment, and there is a $27.50 processing fee. His name on the platform right now is Kitara Ravache, and he changed his profile picture to a picture of him in drag that went viral last year.

He claims that 20% of the proceeds from these Cameo videos will go to two nonprofits – the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, benefiting first responders, and The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews – but many allegations against Santos include accusations that he pretended to raise money for charity only to keep the cash for himself. In fact, evidence that he usurped campaign donations was enough to convince the House Ethics Committee, which published a report on their investigation that led to Santos getting expelled from the House.

Y'all weren't ready for this drop?

I've decided to bring Kitara out of the closet after 18 years!🤣🤣🤣

for a limited time & with 20% of the proceeds going to @Tunnel2Towers & @TheFellowship

Book your Kitara @BookCameo on the link below!💅 👇https://t.co/rRbyBLp8tm

— George Santos (@MrSantosNY) April 29, 2024

In January 2023, shortly after Santos was sworn in to Congress, an MSNBC journalist published an article about Santos’s time as a drag performer in Brazil that included pictures of Santos as Kitara.

Eula Rochard remembered Santos from when he started in drag as a teenager in Brazil, saying he was a “poor” drag queen in 2005 who could only afford a black dress. But “he came back to Niterói with a lot of money” in 2008 and wore an extravagant pink dress. He competed in a pageant that year, she said, but he lost.

“The most recent obsession from the media claiming that I am a drag Queen or ‘performed’ as a drag Queen is categorically false,” Santos wrote on Twitter at the time.

“The media continues to make outrageous claims about my life while I am working to deliver results,” he continued. “I will not be distracted nor fazed by this.”

“He’s changed a lot, but he was always a liar,” Rochard told MSNBC. “He was always such a dreamer.”

NEW: I just spoke by phone with Eula Rochard, a Brazilian drag queen who was friends with George Santos when he lived near Rio. She said everyone knew him as Anthony (*never* George), or by his drag name, Kitara, and confirms this photo is from a 2008 drag show at Icaraí Beach. pic.twitter.com/1MeeDR1O2O

— . (@MarisaKabas) January 18, 2023

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