Rochard reportedly said that Santos was never a professional drag performer, but instead only did it for fun and to dress up.
The personal story that he campaigned on was largely disproven shortly before his first term in office was about to begin following a bombshell report in the New York Times. is under investigation by local, state and federal officials — while prosecutors in Brazil have reopened a fraud case against him from 2008.
Santos, who is the first openly gay non-incumbent Republican elected to the House, has resisted calls to resign. Rochard, speaking with Kabas, said she saw Santos on Brazilian television recently and messaged her friends from when she knew Santos that she thought it was him. When her friends doubted her, she found the old photo and“The picture was taken in 2008 at the Pride Parade at Icarai Beach in Niteroi,” she told Kabas. “George had disappeared for a little while, and then returned to Brazil with a lot of money, and that was about the same time when the picture was taken.
“He did not have what it takes to be a professional,” she reportedly said. “George did not have the glamour for that.”“He used to create stories, usually involving money – like that his dad was rich,” she recounted to Kabas. “But then people wondered why his mom was a cleaning lady. There’s nothing wrong with being a cleaning lady, but if his dad was rich, why then?”
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