Wolf suing Imus over firing

For a retirement present, one New York broadcast legend has filed a lawsuit against another.

Warner Wolf is taking Don Imus and three others to the New York State Supreme Court, alleging Wolf was let go from WABC Radio’s “Imus in the Morning” show at the end of 2016 because of age discrimination and is owed severance, as well as damages for “severe mental anguish, emotional distress, humiliation,” among other maladies.

Imus is scheduled to retire from his show at the end of March. He regularly makes fun of everything and everybody.

In the suit, Imus is the first one named as a defendant, along with WABC general manager Chad Lopez, Cumulus senior vice president Mike McVay and WABC program director Craig Schwalb. The claim was filed late Thursday morning, and a copy was obtained by The Post.

Wolf’s lawyer, Douglas H. Wigdor, writes, “Imus routinely made inappropriate comments about the Plaintiff’s age, including stating that it was ‘time to put [Mr. Wolf] out to pasture’ and ‘shoot him with an elephant dart gun.’”

In 2016, the suit says, Imus replaced Wolf, then 78, because of his age and hired Sid Rosenberg, who was 30 years younger. Wolf claims that Cumulus refused to honor severance for 26 weeks of pay, amounting to $97,500. There seems to be a disagreement between the parties on whether a deal had been officially consummated.

The suit claims that “Imus in the Morning was responsible for approximately onethird of WABC’s entire revenue, and, as a result Imus was routinely left to call the shots.” Wolf said he was let go under circumstances that he claims were unlawful.