Just when you thought the train of Borat lawsuits were over when the movie hit the DVD shelves, here comes this one from another one of the film’s “stars,” if by “stars” you mean poor sap who didn’t realize they were talking to an actor and got the piss humiliated out of them for our amusement.
According to TMZ, the etiquette coach in the movie has filed a lawsuit against the folks behind Borat.
According to the story, the woman who filed the suit claims the producers of the film committed “commercial misappropriation, fraud, unjust enrichment, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.” She must have thought she was being interviewed by Geraldo Rivera.
She, of course, was the woman who tried to coach Borat before his big dinner meeting in Alabama and Borat showed her a stream of nude pictures of his supposed son. Shoot, he should have sued her for setting him up in a meal served within Alabama’s borders.
In the woman’s defense, she’s not the first person to sue the makers of the Borat film. The college kids in the Winnebago and a man he chased down the street filed similar lawsuits. Also, all of the men who saw the men who saw the film sued for being tricked into seeing two hairy men wrestling naked.
6 responses so far ↓
1 Mickie // Nov 8, 2007 at 3:51 am
Oh my god, that is so stupid. People just seem to think that every thing that happens to them should end in a lawsuit. Wake up people, get over your greedy selves and have a good laugh, you got duped… did you sign a waver when they took your picture in school? No. but you couldn’t sue them if they posted your picure all over thier advertising propeganda, because it belongs to the photographer!!!! GET OVER IT!
2 Brian // Nov 8, 2007 at 5:38 pm
I am so damn sick of pathetic crybabys and their lowlife shitbag lawyers suing everytime someone sneezes within the same time zone. Get a life, and a job, losers.
3 kim // Nov 28, 2007 at 3:18 pm
wrong you can sue them for using your image with out premission
4 jesus // Dec 1, 2007 at 12:40 am
no you cant
5 'tog // Dec 28, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Actually, you can, depending on the use. Commercial use requires a model release. Editorial and artistic use does not require a release.
Be smart though, and consult an FA attorney prior to use.
6 Mike // Apr 4, 2008 at 10:47 am
This is actually one of the few “wierd” lawsuits that I agree with.
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