[Movies] More Lawsuits For Borat Posted by Ashish on 11.20.2006
Wanna sue Borat? Get in line.
Cindy Streit, the lady who owns an etiquette business, has filed a lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen and the people behind the new Borat movie. Streit is requesting an investigation into possible violations of the California Unfair Trade Practices Act. Streit was approached by a representative from a Los Angeles-based company called Springland Films wishing to arrange an etiquette session for an "international guest from Belarus Television." The resulting footage ended up in the successful Borat film. Streit's lawyer, insists her client was told the episode "will be filmed as part of a documentary for Belarus Television and for those purposes only." However, a spokesman for the movie's distributor, 20th Century Fox, brands the claims "nonsense."
A scene where Borat brings a bag of his own feces to Streight's dinner table during a dinner party is one of the film's more talked-about scenes.
Cohen and the film have already had several lawsuits filed against them by many of the people featured in the film as well as others claiming to be the "real" Borat that Cohen based his character off of.
