Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen Sued Over Bingo Game

Posted on June 3rd, 2009

Sacha Baron Cohen aka hip hopper ‘Ali G’, Kazakh journalist Borat, and the outrageously gay ‘Bruno’ is being sued over a row at a charity bingo game in Palmdale California. Richelle Olson has sued Cohen and NBC Universal alleging that Cohen in the persona of ‘Bruno’, a gay Austrian fashion journalist assaulted her at a charity bingo game. Olsen claims she was injured by Cohen and his film crew and is now disabled and confined to a wheelchair.

This is not the first time Cohen has been sued for his antics. Cohen’s 2006 film, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” triggered numerous lawsuits by people who claimed they were ‘humiliated, and duped by the comedian.
In his new movie ‘Bruno’ he portrays an outlandish gay character Austrian fashionista. Olsen’s lawsuit claims that Cohen has 30 fake companies to help him pull off his pranks and this is how he was invited to be a bingo caller at Desert Valley Charities’ bingo tournament in May 2007. Cohen posed as a ‘celebrity’ who was filming a documentary on bingo.

The lawsuit states that ‘Bruno’ used vulgarities while calling the second bingo game in front of a mostly elderly audience. Olsen tried to grab the microphone and a struggle took place. Olsen claims he called his camera crew who attacked her trying to provoke an ‘emotional response.’ Olsen then ran from the stage and fell hitting her head on a concrete slab causing brain bleeding. Olsen describes the would be bingo caller as “extreme, outrageous, offensive caricature of a gay man dressed in sexually revealing clothing with an Austrian accent…”

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