NYC judge throws out Borat lawsuits
September 11th, 2008 Posted in World Showbiz News
A New York City judge has thrown out lawsuits brought by a driving instructor and two etiquette school teachers who said the makers of the movie Borat deceived them.
Judge Loretta Preska says all three accepted money and signed agreements releasing the filmmakers from liability.
She noted in her ruling the agreements said the plaintiffs consented to appear in a "documentary-style" movie.
In the 2006 film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen plays an uncouth and anti-semitic journalist travelling the United States in pursuit of Pamela Anderson.
Cohen is known for hoaxing people with his interviews.
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