Sacha Baron Cohen gets his first lawsuit for ‘Bruno’
Fox News and MTV are reporting that a California charity worker who organizes weekly bingo for the elderly is suing Borat and Bruno star Sacha Baron Cohen, 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…
