‘Disabled’ woman sues Sacha Cohen

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.

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‘Disabled’ woman sues Sacha Cohen

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