General Lee stuntman who jumped Somerset fountain gets scammed, loses access to business’ Facebook account

LEXINGTON, Ky. (FOX 56) — The video is hard to forget: a replica of the Dukes of Hazzard’s General Lee car soaring over Somerset’s historic Fountain Square. When it happened in June, videos of the jump spread like wildfire on social media, making headlines worldwide.

But the lead stuntman behind that jump said a recent incident has made him feel like his world has come crashing down.

Raymond Kohn has spent the past 18 years as a stuntman, completing 31 harrowing jumps. After the Somerset jump, there was a lot of attention on him and his business, the Northeast Ohio Dukes.

“We were on top of the world. We were getting calls and emails and messages from everyone,” Kohn said.

Nearly a month later, everything came to a complete stop.

Kohn told FOX 56 that he was approached by what seemed to be a podcast called The Kim Gravel Show to do an interview about the jump on Facebook Live. After doing some background research on the podcast, he agreed to the interview.

He soon discovered that it was really scam artists posing as staff for The Kim Gravel Show who hacked into the Northeast Ohio Dukes’ Facebook page.

“They hacked into our Facebook account during the Zoom interview, and next thing you know, our over 150,000-fan page was gone. They renamed it, and they wiped it from us completely. Took all of our content. Nearly 20 years of my life. Completely gone in a matter of seconds,” he said.

Kohn even had to change all of his bank account information because the Facebook page was connected to the business’s bank account.

The page was renamed Walking With God, but Kohn said its posts are anything but godly.

This isn’t the first time Kohn has faced a major setback, though. In 2023, he underwent surgery to remove a life-threatening brain tumor.

“I got back in the car, and I beat that, and it’s like to go through that, to get back in the car and do the biggest jumps of my career and then have it stolen from you… It just adds insult to the injury,” Kohn said.

Since the hack, the real Kim Gravel Show has been in contact with Kohn, confirming that it was a scam and that they have received several reports of scams like this happening to other people.

But when it comes to Facebook and its parent company, Meta, Kohn said he hasn’t had the same level of communication.

“They have no customer service. And somebody is allowed to come into your life, steal your Facebook, your business Facebook, and take everything away from you. And there is nothing that you or I can do about it,” Kohn said.

Kohn told FOX 56 that he even received a message from Facebook and Meta saying their investigation found no fault and that the case is closed. Kohn appealed it.

At the end of the day, Kohn said he’s not asking for much—he just wants his page back.

“It’s taken us a long time to get past 150,000 likes. And where do we go from here? Start over? I’m 47 years old… I don’t want to start over. I want my page back,” he said.

Since the hack, Kohn has created a new Northeast Ohio Dukes Facebook page and encouraged people to follow it. But he warned anyone who followed the original page not to unfollow or block it—because if he is able to regain access, he said blocking the page would prevent fans from seeing updates again.

On a more hopeful note, Kohn told FOX 56 about the Northeast Ohio Dukes’ future plans.

Given the success and widespread attention the General Lee Jump got in Somerset, he is hoping to soon take a jump to the national stage.

Kohn said, “That was a very historical thing. And it was a very American thing. And we even launched an idea to President Trump to do a freedom job where we build an American version of a Dodge Charger, and we jump it in front of the White House for our nation’s 250th birthday for next year.”

The Northeast Ohio Dukes team has created a Facebook page for that jump as well.