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Sacha Baron Cohen gets his first lawsuit for ‘Bruno’

4 June 2009 184 views No Comment

Fox News and MTV are reporting that a California charity worker who organizes weekly bingo for the elderly is suing Borat and Bruno star , alleging that he beat her up, “crippled” her and caused the demise of her marriage in a bingo melee.

Richelle Olson was organizing a bingo game in Palmdale, Calif., that she says Cohen (in character as gay Austrian TV personality Brüno) offered to guest-call as a European celebrity.  When he showed up in his notoriously revealing costume, a violent struggle ensued over the bingo microphone — she alleges that “defendants attacked [her] for a period of one to five minutes to intentionally create a dramatic emotional response … while [they] recorded her humiliation and embarrassment.”

In what she describes in court documents as an emotional breakdown after the assault, she hit her head on a concrete slab and has been confined to a wheelchair and walker since due to “brain bleeding.”

And this is most likely just the beggining…

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