‘Disabled’ woman sues Sacha Cohen
p2pnet news view | Movies:- Sacha Noam Baron Cohen of Borat fame is being sued by an American woman, Richelle Olson, who says an incident that occurred while Cohen’s latest movie, Bruno, was being filmed left her ‘disabled’.
She claims she was, “severely injured during filming following a struggle with Baron Cohen and his film crew at a charity bingo tournament,” says the BBC, going on the lawsuit alleges Olson, 37, “now needs a wheelchair or cane to move around”.
Cohen, “attended the event in the guise of his alter ego, Brüno — described by Olson as an ‘extreme, outrageous, offensive caricature of a gay man dressed in sexually revealing clothing with an Austrian accent’,” says The Guardian, adding:
“She alleges that Baron Cohen ‘offensively touched, pushed and battered her’ when she tried to wrest back the bingo caller’s microphone, resulting in her falling to the ground.
For good measure, “the suit claims that this assault was abetted by several camera operators who ‘attacked [her] for a period of one to five minutes to intentionally create a dramatic emotional response … while [they] recorded her humiliation and embarrassment’.”
BBC – Cohen sued over new Bruno movie, June 4, 2009
The Guardian – Sacha Baron Cohen sued over Brüno prank, , June 4, 2009
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June 4th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Sounds like a greedy money-chaser.
June 4th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
I’ll wait for the photos that surface of her walking around her yard with no wheelchair
June 5th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Sounds great, can’t wait for the movie!!
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:25 am
Mon June 22, 8:49 pm ET
MARSEILLE (Reuters Life) Irreverent comedian Sacha Baron Cohen took his new persona a notch higher on the political incorrectness scale when his team rented a local French jail for a high-spirited song and dance advertisement for famed “Savon de Marseille”.
Cohen is all over Europe’s most trendy destinations these days, building up attention of the European release of ‘Bruno’, a cavalcade of antics from his new incarnation as a gay Austrian fashion reporter.
“Daddy’s Soap” is a Madonna-like choreographed faux commercial starring twenty local juvenile delinquents and a look-alike of Jean Genet, a famous French poet and gay icon who did time in a number of French prisons. In the number, Cohen enacts his impression of an art nouveau soap dish holder while dancers revel around him acting out a rape fantasy. The British-born provocateur extraordinaire is skirting sensitivities to make even more of a splash than he did in 2006 with the hit movie “Borat”.