A devout Jewish “American Idol” contestant is suing the baby mama of his unborn child for calling him a Nazi on YouTube, according to the $1.5 million libel lawsuit.
Jonathan Jay Stone, 31, whose duo, Bagels n’ Box, was featured in 2009 on the talent show, had a fling with Israeli-American Hagit Hamus, 35, after the two met at a Kips Bay deli in January, he says in the Manhattan Supreme Court suit.
They had sex at Stone’s nearby luxury loft in February and broke up the day after Valentine’s, Stone reports in court papers. A month later, Hamus found out she was pregnant.
When she allegedly threatened to flee with the fetus to Israel, Stone got a court order to keep her in the US.
Hamus allegedly retaliated “by directly attacking Mr. Stone’s credibility and standing within Jewish and Israeli communities.”
Stone performs his act, where he riffs off Jewish prayer with a cantor, across the world.
“In 10 publications [Hamus] states that Mr. Stone is a ‘NATZI,’ which would be horrific libel for anyone, but is particularly cruel when hurled at a Jew,” the legal papers explain.
The musician and business consultant, who mentors kids, got a restraining order against his ex in March for her “increasingly hostile and harassing behavior.”
She allegedly violated the court order by commenting on Stone’s online videos in places like YouTube, Vimeo and ShalomTV.
The mom-to-be claimed Stone told the Family Court judge, “Israel is a place of harm and danger to his unborn child,” to keep her in the United States.
“Oh well, he is a cool beat-boxer, no more, no less,” she snipes in the posting.
The comments, flagged as spam on at least one of the sites, have exposed Stone to “public shame, contempt, ridicule, ostracism, degradation, suspicion and disgrace,” he complains in the lawsuit.
The badmouthing has hit the artist financially because it “portrayed Mr. Stone in a false manner to a significantly large, international, public audience.”
Stone’s taken his show on the road to synagogues across America, as well as to hip Manhattan venues like the Living Room and City Winery.
Stone says Hamus took a pregnancy test at his Lexington Avenue loft and showed her the positive results.
His suit says Hamus “has made numerous threats to Mr. Stone that she intends to permanently relocate to Israel for the sole purpose of denying Mr. Stone his parental rights.”
Hamus admitted to the Post that the Nazi comment was “very, very harsh” and unfair. But, she said, he allegedly told her he would gain sole custody by telling the court she was “crazy.”
And, the four months pregnant mom added, he harassed her first and she received an order of protection against him in criminal court.
Hamus said she wanted to give birth in Israel so her family could support her through the process.