Celebrity Justice
Sacha's Alleged Victim Goes Downhill

We've been checking all day on the story we broke about Sacha Baron Cohen being sued for allegedly attacking a woman at a bingo game -- and we've learned the woman who's suing is in really bad shape.

As we reported, Richelle Olson is suing Cohen, NBC Universal and others over an incident in 2007, when she was emceeing a charity bingo match for the elderly. Olson says she was told a celebrity would come to call numbers, and none other than Bruno appeared. She claims she tried grabbing the mic back after he was "vulgar and offensive," and he allegedly attacked her. Olson says she suffered brain bleeds and is confined to a wheelchair.

Now we're told that since the incident, people who play bingo with Olson say they have watched her deteriorate before their eyes. She's lost "drastic amounts of weight" and is extremely frail. In fact, we're told just last Saturday Olson fell during a bingo game, hit her head and bled. An ambulance came ... she eventually went to the ER where she was treated.

One bingo player says Olson looks like she has aged 20 years in the last year-and-a-half.



Tags: bingo, richelle olson, RichelleOlson, sacha baron cohen, SachaBaronCohen

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16. You guys are all losers!! He's gonna make millions of dollars from this film. Ya'll can go back to flippin fries!! Ha!!
It's obvious that this old hag is just being set up by some lawyer. She's gonna get some money from Cohen, Cohen is still a millionaire, and you guys are still losers!! Sad when a comedian can expose the racism and predudice of redneck Americans!!

Posted at 7:49PM on Jun 3rd 2009 by bubu

17. This guy has a bad case of "the world revolves around me". His bad comedy finally came back to bit him in the ass. Poor woman, it's beyond me why he's not in jail.

Posted at 8:06PM on Jun 3rd 2009 by Mary02748

18. Danka Fred!
but i bet Bruno gets away with this one like he did last movie when peeps sued this jude.

Posted at 7:51PM on Jun 3rd 2009 by Mo Gridder

19. Sometimes lame jokes backfire. Not everyone likes ambush comedy.

Posted at 7:52PM on Jun 3rd 2009 by ugh

20. He is a one trick pony and had to stoop to scr*wing with a bingo group to find people who aren't on to his tired act yet. In an effort to be 'funny' at someone else's expensive his lack of concern for the other person has caught up with him. Whether or not she was on the edge of failing health his bit could only have pushed her sooner over that edge.
Cohen, we have seen your a**, ba**s, you done your voices, and pulled the wool over the old and unsuspecting. All you have done is taken one part of Tom Green and Jacka** and made it into a 'career'. Truly genius work...enjoy telling these stories when you are sitting in a bingo hall crapping in your diaper.

Posted at 7:56PM on Jun 3rd 2009 by thomas

21. This guy is not funny at all. How he got Isla Fisher is a mystery.

Posted at 8:21PM on Jun 3rd 2009 by Anon

22. HA! That's just too funny. Poor bitch.

Posted at 8:22PM on Jun 3rd 2009 by Laura

23. dang how old was she seems like she was already in pretty bad shape from the beginning nobody just falls and bleeds and all those old people and bingo talking about they had to watch her deteriorate i bet they all deteriorating before each others eyes

Posted at 8:27PM on Jun 3rd 2009 by nichol1210

24. i hope she gets millions. he's annoying.

Posted at 8:33PM on Jun 3rd 2009 by marshamarshamarsha

25. I never thought his stunts were funny and now someone has gotten really hurt. I hope she wins her lawsuit.

Posted at 8:33PM on Jun 3rd 2009 by Sabrina

26. I know, if this is true, I'm going to hell for this comment but:

Who else thinks that this is hysterical?

Posted at 8:46PM on Jun 3rd 2009 by Nooo she didint

27. There was a time when Ali G was pretty funny. That time was long long......LONG ago. And LONG before 2007. What the hell was he playing that sissy mary for anyways, I never did care for that character. Anyways, he uses some pretty f'd up judgment by rudely interrupting a senior citizen bingo game. These people are in they're golden years and he wants to mess with their game? Call this a case of instant karma.

Posted at 9:05PM on Jun 3rd 2009 by Campy

28. Case will be thrown out. He's not at fault. Anyone can make someone cry or feel humiliated, but its not their fault if the person falls and gets injured in a DIFFERENT ROOM.

Posted at 9:11PM on Jun 3rd 2009 by whhaaat

29. I agree that Sasha Baron Cohen should go back to England and stay there. He is a disgusting person; no conscience. I hope that lady winds up feeling better. She may be going 'downhill' because of depression. Did anyone think of that? A lot of older people don't deteriorate so fast. I have 3 members of my family to 'testify'; well, they are gone now.. But each was active in their 80's.

Posted at 9:43PM on Jun 3rd 2009 by Joanne

30. I cannot figure out why nobody hasn't just beat the F@#K out of this guy.

Posted at 9:56PM on Jun 3rd 2009 by Over logging

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