A New York judge has tossed out lawsuits brought by a driving instructor and two etiquette school teachers who claimed the makers of the movie “Borat” conned them into appearing in film.
Judge Loretta Preska said beacuse all three individuals accepted money and signed agreements, the film-makers were released from any liability.
In the 2006 film “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen plays an uncouth and anti-Semitic journalist travelling the United States in pursuit of Pamela Anderson.
The film took in 150 million at the cinemas.
Cohen, 36, often fools people with his gag interviews and has previously been hit by a number of legal claims.
Two college students from a South Carolina university tried to sue film-makers soon after the movie’s release with claims they had suffered humiliation after appearing in the movie.
They said the movie’s producers fooled them into signing a release form after being told the film would not be shown in the US.
Residents of Glod, Romania, where part of the film was shot, sued 20th Century Fox for 15.2 million after claiming they were mis-represented.
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