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$26.4 Million Buys Borat Potential Lawsuit

By Dylan on November 6, 2006 12:14 PM

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As we’ve exhaustively noted, Borat did a bang-up job on the box office this weekend, earning $26.4 million. The nerds at Wired noticed that the Sacha Baron Cohen character bore similarities to late-’90s Internet celebrity Mahir Cagri, whose Web site, www.ikissyou.org, “implored women of the world to visit his native Turkey, ‘stay my home,’ and, yes, kiss him.”

Cagri tells Wired he intends to sue Baron Cohen: “All people know Sacha Baron Cohen imitate only me. He is stealing my character and giving bad message to USA people.”

Cagri adds: “I start first grow mustache, 10 or 15 year ago.”

FishbowlNY’s Borat Coverage:

  • Borat Provides Copywriters ‘Glorious Hand Relief’
  • The Vanity Fair Borat Cover That Never Happened
  • Borat: Cultural Consequences Of Staying In Character
  • Borat: The Halloween Costume
  • Borat Soundtrack To Include ‘Throw Jew Down The Well’; iTunes Gets It Week Early
  • ‘Make Click’ On Borat‘s ‘Official Home Site’
  • Borat’s Revenge! Cohen Character Makes Cover Of Entertainment Weekly
  • Borat‘s Vanity Fair Snub? Carter Goes With Clooney Over Cohen For November Cover
  • Borat Damage Control: Kazakhstan Takes Out 4-Page Times Ad

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