Celebrity Justice
Sacha's Alleged Victim -- Injuries 'Life-Altering'

The attorney for the woman who claims Sacha Baron Cohen assaulted her during the filming of "Bruno" says Cohen has radically changed her life -- for the worse.

Sacha Baron Cohen

Kyle Madison of the Madison Law Group calls the injuries Richelle Olson suffered "life-altering." Olson says in her lawsuit Cohen showed up at her charity bingo match for the elderly back in 2007 in his Bruno character, and began calling numbers in a vulgar, offensive way. The suit claims ... when Olson tried grabbing the mic away ... Cohen physically assaulted her. Olson says she suffered brain bleeds and sometimes requires assistance walking.

Madison tells TMZ, "The actions of Mr. Cohen and those acting in concert with him have resulted in life-altering injuries to my client. My focus is her well-being and to secure a fair, just and equitable remedy for her claims."

Madison says Olson's suit is different from the people who sued Cohen over the "Borat" movie. Those people suffered humiliation -- Olson's injuries are physical and severe. "This claim is distinguishable from Mr. Cohen's previous lawsuits as a defendant," Madison says.

To read Madison's full statement to TMZ, click here.



Tags: bruno, lawsuit, Richelle Olson, RichelleOlson, sacha baron cohen, SachaBaronCohen

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31. I completely agree with post no. 3. I do not see anything remotely funny in making fun of other people. It is idiotic, infantile and puerile and it demeans us as a nation if we find this humorous. I personally would never watch his movies or idiotic stunts but then I never watch any "reality" television whatsoever either.

Posted at 11:24AM on Jun 5th 2009 by Ariana

32. she just another piece of crap trying o screw people outta of there money..if she was so hurt why is she just now sueing him can u say fraud

Posted at 11:36AM on Jun 5th 2009 by Dawn

33. it is very interesting that people are defending Cohen. I hope this woman gets a load of cash from this prick, then we can all have the laugh at him for a change. Payback is a bitch, especially when you are a jerk and hurt an old woman. Why doesn't someone follow him around with a camera and get in his face the way he gets in other peoples faces. I hope he gets what is coming to him, if not from this lady then from someone else, like a big cigar smoking leather daddy.

Posted at 11:58AM on Jun 5th 2009 by Pug

34. As an avid player of bingo at Angels. I was there that night. While the cameras were rolling she was all giddy and having fun. When this jerk was invited to call bingo, everything was all good when he started talking about his gay lover and we were laughing and this went on for a while. If you are a true bingo player you become easily annoyed with interruptions. Some of the players began to get annoyed and this is when Rochelle went into action to stop him. This jerk was to the left of the caller stand and she was on the right. There was one camera guy on or next to the caller stand, the other camera was on the southeast side of the building with a couple of crew members. There were about 5 people from Sasha's crew including one female. The last thing Rochelle said before she left the stage is, this is how you treat a person with cancer? Walked off the stage about 20 feet into a back room and passed out and hit her head. No one saw this. All you heard after that was give her some air and call the paramedics. if 5 people (if 1 person) attack me, you best believe the police would be called. When was Rochelle attacked? Maybe i am too elderly to remember (am 31). I have seen their security physically remove people from bingo. Why is it that she is the only one traumatized by the incident when there was clearly 250 other traumatized people in the room. The same people are showing up there. This incident was not talked about long after it happened, just in the last 3 months. I bet 3/4 of the people that were in that place that night, don't remember what actually happened. The ones closest to her have been coached and i am sure they share the same stories. The judge need to subpoena everyone in that place and under oath ask them their version of what happened and i bet you will have 250 different versions. We the players had no idea of what was in store, they were aware. Why aren't we filing a lawsuit against this jerk. Rochelle was coming into the bingo pre may 2007 in a wheel chair at times because of her liver cancer. She according to her husband was getting chemotherapy.. Dangle a couple million dollars in front of her on a string, she will get out of that wheel chair. This is how much she loves us, in this lawsuit she has never once said, not ony did you traumatized me, but you traumatized some of my players especially all the so called elderly people (which was about 20) that night. If she does receive any money from this, she need to divide it among all the people who lied for her so that they can bail themselves out of jail for perjury. Hummmmmmmm physically attacked by a camera crew no police called, not one player, security or her husband came to her rescue. Offer her something, so she can stop with all this madness!!!!

Posted at 12:00PM on Jun 5th 2009 by lover of bingo

35. what the f**k is a brain bleed?????how do ya get one??? can i call work saying i got the brain bleeds, this woman has just opened a world of possibilities for me.....

Posted at 2:11PM on Jun 5th 2009 by dhearbhla

36. I still think she's full of it and is looking for an easy handout now that she knows he's famous and rich.

Posted at 1:27PM on Jun 5th 2009 by LisaL

37. How is it his fault if she passed out and hit her head some time after she left the room where he and his people were?

Posted at 2:13PM on Jun 5th 2009 by JimJamJimmyJamJam

38. WAS gonna watch this movie cuz Borat was pretty FUNNY.......but when he did physically hurt someone and why should we support someone who's trying to get us to laugh at someone elses expense, he might as well of "beat -her-down".......like his previous lawsuit, they suffered "humiliation", but this women suffered PHYSICAL INJURIES....dont seem funny anymore when a man assaults a women for no good reason, and he knew what to expect since he had the people experience from the Borat movie.....IF it were me being humiliated id be fine, life goes on....but not for this women, she has to live with that day and the pain!

Posted at 4:09PM on Jun 5th 2009 by Mwah!

39. To cause "brain bleeds" takes some serious impact on the head. What about witnesses? She is soooo after the $$$!

Posted at 3:59PM on Jun 5th 2009 by Alice in Wonderland

40. she's full of crap. she waited this long to sue him? obviously she wanted to make sure he had enough money for her to sue over. if she had just let him do his job this wouldn't have happened to her. sometimes people create their own misfortunes. if she didnt like what he was doing, she should have just left. simple as that. the people who hired him knew what he's all about and they still hired him, she's the only one who had a problem with it. and by the way, i am not a big fan of his. i've never seen his movies, im just sick and tired of people suing everything that moves

Posted at 4:20PM on Jun 5th 2009 by hora

41. The lady recognized the dude and tries to make money of him, I bet she's charging a ton of money for interviews. Too bad her brain injuries would have left her very much dead before one hour passes, not wait a whole year and a half to tie in with the release of the movie.

The sad reality is that this guy makes of other people, but not just any people, mostly racists homophobic people that think he's like them he's he says something crazy and they agree.

The vast mayority of the world agrees this is funny, you probably are part of the group being laughed at by these characters.

Posted at 9:25PM on Jun 7th 2009 by Coolio

42. Instead of demonstrating how awful Americans are in his so-called satires, all Sacha Baron Cohen proves is what a self-absorbed offensive ass he is. I hope he gets sued for every cent he's worth. So, Cohen should get a free pass to do what he wants because he's making a movie? I don't think so. He's a jerk and when he breaks the law he should be punished like anyone else.

Posted at 4:01PM on Jun 21st 2009 by gifthorse

43. To #9 "Who Gives A Chit": I think you must be the stupidest person on this post. You hope the "bitch" has a "good lawyer"? Why? So she can sue your stupid ass for going her a bitch? Why is she a "bitch"? Do you know who she is? Did you see what happened? Were you there? Yeah, I didn't think so. Why don't you go open your garbage pail, dig out the brains you threw in there, and put them back into your head. Because that is as much intelligent as you have displayed in your "f'n" post.

If you're going to start calling people names, at least have a g-ddamn good reason to do so.

Posted at 11:44AM on Sep 1st 2009 by Clearsky54

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