'Bruno' cleared in bingo lawsuit
Actor Sacha Baron Cohen has been cleared of all charges relating to an incident alleged to have taken place during a bingo game in 2007 while making his 2009 film, Bruno.
According to online magazine TMZ.com, California resident Richelle Olson claimed to have suffered "life-altering" injuries after she tried to prevent Cohen, in the guise of his gay Austrian character Bruno, from continuing to call bingo numbers in a vulgar, offensive way.
The character was to appear at a charity bingo game for the elderly arranged by Olsen back in 2007, but the lawsuit claimed that, when she tried to intervene when events took the unexpected turn by grabbing the mic away, Cohen physically assaulted her. Olson said she suffered two brain bleeds and sometimes required assistance walking after falling and hitting her head during the incident.
After footage taken at the time by the film crew revealed that no such assault took place, Olsen changed the claim to one for "emotional damage" instead. However, the judge at the Los Angeles Superior Court hearing dismissed the suit altogether and ordered her to pay the actors legal fees of $17,000.
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