Celebrity Justice
Meet the Woman Who's Suing Bruno

Richelle Olson suing Sacha Baron CohenThis is the woman who is suing Sacha Baron Cohen over the alleged violent attack at the bingo parlor during the filming of "Bruno."

Her name is Richelle Olson. She's 39 years old and lives in Palmdale, CA. Olson claims Cohen came to her charity bingo match for the elderly in the character "Bruno" and began calling numbers in a vulgar and offensive way. Olson says when she tried grabbing the mic away from him, Cohen attacked her, as did several of his cameramen.

Olson says she fell to the ground, suffered brain bleeds and has been forced to use a wheelchair or a walker ever since.

Her friends tell us Olson has deteriorated since the incident. The pic was taken either before or shortly after the alleged attack.

It was first printed this morning by the Antelope Valley Press.



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16. Peterson32 is a moron. Douchebag dorky 'shady' knew everything.

Posted at 5:16PM on Jun 4th 2009 by habitat

17. I hope this A-hole sasha baron genital wart gets sued up da azz or someone should hurt this guy.

Posted at 5:24PM on Jun 4th 2009 by juan locdog

18. Who cares what she looks like? She was injured unneccessarily and that's unfortunate no matter what.

Posted at 5:28PM on Jun 4th 2009 by Jessica

19. #5--She can't fake the brain bleeds, but she also can't prove he's responsible. After all, she initiated physical contact with him, not vice-versa. And the fall on to the concrete which caused the injury happened after she left his presence. How is he responsible? And, you can see them knocking her down ? With cameras rolling? Not likely.

#10--The fact that she tried to take the microphone away from Sacha and he pushed her away DOES NOT add legitimacy to her complaints. It shows that she assaulted him and was injured in the process. It's not legally his fault. In all likelihood Sacha will NOT pay (and he shouldn't).

Posted at 5:30PM on Jun 4th 2009 by Anon

20. Olson says she fell to the ground, suffered brain bleeds and has been forced to use and wheelchair or a walker ever since.

It is a really dangerous world out there when just falling to the ground causes brain bleeds. I think the sleepless nights and anxiety usual claims would have sounded better. Even more amazing are the morons here that read what I just pasted and don't question it. Maybe the elderly people should sue her for taking their wheel chair. 39 year old whiner. sucubus.

Posted at 5:30PM on Jun 4th 2009 by wtf

21. She needs to have brain bleeds, she is an ugly bitch liar. Bruno rocks!

Posted at 5:37PM on Jun 4th 2009 by PhillipP

22. Have any of you ever been to Palmdale, Ca.? When low class bums roaming anywhere in California scrape the crap off of their shoes they throw it on a bus and ship it to Palmdale. It is not a huge town and used to be nice until it was "discovered" and almost overnight became a new home paradise with really low prices...then all of the welfare agencies in Los Angeles began stuffing brochures about Palmdale in along with the checks to all of the gangster neighborhoods and (once again) almost overnight it became a drug/gang infested sewer. A somewhat small town and all of a sudden it had a dozen streets being barricaded from friday to sunday to try and stem the tide of drug buying and prostitution. So...Sorry, though I cannot stand this Cohen clown I would not believe anyone from Palmdale about anything ...even if they said the sun was going to rise tomorrow.

Posted at 5:47PM on Jun 4th 2009 by wombat

23. I would like to join this fight and develop some strong feeling in support of one side or the other, but Cohen's comedy is so boring and uninteresting to me that I can't. This is like the only strand on TMZ that has ever left me feeling completely and utterly indifferent.

Posted at 5:51PM on Jun 4th 2009 by Da Fadda Figga

24. Playing bingo with the elderly. Get a life you gold digging beeeeeitch

Posted at 5:54PM on Jun 4th 2009 by Jeff D

25. Jimbo - she's definitely no older than 39. Fact: after 30, unless they have plastic surgery (which many do), women age ridiculously fast. Consequently you get 39 yr olds like her who actually look like they're in their early 50's. I don't know why this is.

Posted at 5:53PM on Jun 4th 2009 by Another Gold Digger

26. Another Gold Digger, my wife is 38, never had surgery and never wears makeup, and still gets carded! "Aging fast" varies from woman to woman. Sure, there are 39 year olds that don't take care of themselves, but then there are women like Sophia Loren who is 76 and STILL looks a lot nicer than this scary bitch!

Posted at 6:01PM on Jun 4th 2009 by El

27. OMG I can't beleive people would take Sacha Baron Cohen's side on this and call this woman a gold digger (that term is used for women that marry well anyways)
But you can't fake a bleeding brain!!! Cohan has no talent and needs to be put in his place he's ugly and is not funny in the least he makes jokes at other people's expence and makes money on it. And anyone that pays any money to see this moron is just as dumb as his little skits.
It's a sad world when someone can get seriously hurt and people take the wrong doer's side.
Proof that the world is full of stupid and unfeeling people.
If this woman was your mother or sister I'm sure you would all feel different and call the first lawyer you could find.

Posted at 6:04PM on Jun 4th 2009 by azchick

28.
Many, many ladies "of a certain age" down here in Southern Cal claim to be 39, interpret that however you want.
That is a commonly claimed age with the 50's set.
Everyone else is 18 or 29.

If she has it on film, then that's that. Sasha was quite boisterous when he was showing up all over in this area while filming Bruno. It was funny to see his choas on the evening news when he was recognized trying to film Bruno.
I'm sure if it turns out he is responsible, he'll step up.

Posted at 6:04PM on Jun 4th 2009 by AnaisnunLA

29. That is the weirdest picture I've seen in a long time. It looks like she's underwarter or something. She looks weird!!

Posted at 6:09PM on Jun 4th 2009 by kathryn

30. OHHHHHH SHE'S FROM PALMDALE!! That explains EVERYTHING!!!

Certifiable GOLD-DIGGER!!!

Posted at 6:11PM on Jun 4th 2009 by Melissa

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