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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46. It said she was injured in 2007 but she’s suing now it doesn’t make sense and did he even start making Bruno then he was working on other thing in 2007 so I think it’s weird that in the 2 years she deciding to sue now when he’s in the public eye now more then ever.

Posted at 7:18PM on Jun 4th 2009 by kaitlyn

47. Hopefully this jerk goes to jail. He is a no talent piece of crap. Any idiot can do his schtik.

Posted at 11:48PM on Jun 3rd 2009 by Rick

48. There is a movie from 2006 with Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connelly called " Little Children " .
In one scene , the registered sex offender's mother (Phyllis Somerville )is suddenly woken up very late at night by a disgraced ex-police officer (Noah Emmerich ) yelling on a bull horn to the neighborhood to keep their children safe and beware of the sex offender, however the scuffle that takes place between the mother and the ex police officer yelling in the bullhorn is exactly how I envision this happening between Sasha and the little old lady ...

Not funny ( yet that scene in the movie was hysterical ) but there are so many other factors involved and they need to investigate her medical records to see if she was previously ailing from any underlying illness.
Her anger coupled with the drama would not affect someone in their 40's, 50's , even 60's , but it is enough to send a frail elderly person over the edge...

Posted at 11:56PM on Jun 3rd 2009 by poor thing

49. Every time you watch one of his movies its like giving him a quarter to show his crotch to some old lady on the street or to make a fat kid eat a worm. This stuff was supposed to stop being funny in grade school. I hope he pays. That would be funny. :)

Posted at 12:02AM on Jun 4th 2009 by nico

50. I find this guy extremely obnoxious and crude, and I hope his nothing career comes to an end SOON. He is an embarrassment. I can't stand him!

Posted at 11:59PM on Jun 3rd 2009 by becky

51. #33, you seem to hate Jews. Tell us how you really feel, homo.

Posted at 12:20AM on Jun 4th 2009 by Fat people crying in this thread

52. Nothing that a few mil can't take care of right? Lol

Posted at 12:23AM on Jun 4th 2009 by Fina

53. I had the misfortune of seeing Borat, followed by that nascar type movie he did with the SNL guy. After seeing those two movies, I hope she wins. I'm sick of these no talent douchebag celebrities getting famous for being douchebags (ie: Heidi, Spencer, Paris, The Osbournes and the list goes on). I think they should be sent to Afghanistan so our troops can get in a lil target practice. Besides, some of the movies the newer crop of douchebags are doing, they're like wmd's. I won't even get into all of the douchebag tossers who are trying to pretend they're musicians these days.


Posted at 12:24AM on Jun 4th 2009 by dev

54. okay, now that someone has gotten hurt by him can we please make him go away? He's NOT funny. He's offensive.

Posted at 1:56AM on Jun 4th 2009 by He's NOT funny

55. His humor is the kind of 'shock humor' that he and people like Howard Stern stop to because they have no natural comedic talent.

Personally, I thought Borat was STUPID.

LOKI

Posted at 12:37AM on Jun 4th 2009 by LOKI

56. Wow she fell, hit her head and bleed, How infrequent is that. Better get her history before you go makin' assupmtions!

Posted at 2:09AM on Jun 4th 2009 by dish

57. i'm not sure how much she is suing for, but didn't the previous story say that she was in a scuffle with baron cohen and his "people"? if that is true, there is some sort of responsibility there on their part. she was righteously trying to take away the mic from an obnoxious, foul-mouthed stranger "celebrity": she was not in on the joke. instead of just sitting back open-mouthed, she actually did something! you have to admire her. as for all the mean-spirited comments about old people, sad. if something like this happened to my grandma or my "grandma-in-law" (who preferred mah jong), this case probably wouldn't be settled in court, if you know what i mean. that doesn't mean that she should get a gazillion dollars, but did baron cohen even try to settle this like a gentleman and own up to his wrongs?

Posted at 1:31AM on Jun 4th 2009 by amy

58. You people would let a celebrity get away with anything, if this was any other person, pushing an elderly person down causing TWO brain bleeds you would be outraged but a media person and you trip over each other to make excuses. Sickens me, and it is pathetic how this lame actor has to do these stupid "comedy media ploys" to get attention before his crap movie comes out. I feel terrilbe for this poor woman and I wonder if this was YOUR family member would you be so quick to ignore it? IT IS TERRIBLE HOW THE ELDERLY ARE TREATED IN THIS COUNTRY.

Posted at 1:47AM on Jun 4th 2009 by YODA SPEAKS

59. Has anyone considered the possibility that this woman filed her lawsuit now because the statute for doing so may be up if she doesn't? It's generally two years, and for all you know, she may have been working with his representatives to resolve this issue peaceably, but to no avail (let's face it - no lawsuit, no publicity, right?).

And, btw, his "comedy" is inane; don't understand why he's making the kinds of money he continues to make - and no, I'm not anywhere close to being a senior citizen; apparently just have a more evolved sense of humor!

Posted at 3:26AM on Jun 6th 2009 by MizRenee

60. He hurt her so much, she waited 2 years to sue. Likely story. Also, I'm going to go ahead and guess the bleeding in her brain is from, I don't know, falling and hitting her head? How old is she anyway?

Posted at 4:36PM on Jun 4th 2009 by Joe

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