A judge has sided with Sacha Baron Cohen in a lawsuit filed by former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore against the “Borat” star, with Baron Cohen beating a $95 million defamation lawsuit Moore brought in 2018.
The lawsuit stemmed from an interview Baron Cohen did with Moore on behalf of his Showtime series “This Is America.” Moore accused Baron Cohen of intentional emotional distress and fraud, claiming he was defamed by the interview.
But on Tuesday, a judge in the Southern District of New York wrote in a ruling obtained by TheWrap that the waiver Moore signed prior to the interview and the First Amendment barred both of Moore’s claims.
Moore and his wife, Kayla Moore, are appealing the ruling.
“Defendants have moved for summary judgment, arguing that Plaintiffs’ claims are barred by both a waiver clause in the agreement that Judge Moore signed prior to the interview and also...
The lawsuit stemmed from an interview Baron Cohen did with Moore on behalf of his Showtime series “This Is America.” Moore accused Baron Cohen of intentional emotional distress and fraud, claiming he was defamed by the interview.
But on Tuesday, a judge in the Southern District of New York wrote in a ruling obtained by TheWrap that the waiver Moore signed prior to the interview and the First Amendment barred both of Moore’s claims.
Moore and his wife, Kayla Moore, are appealing the ruling.
“Defendants have moved for summary judgment, arguing that Plaintiffs’ claims are barred by both a waiver clause in the agreement that Judge Moore signed prior to the interview and also...
- 7/13/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
First it was Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America? late last year, and now Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman is going after Showtime for $750 million and an injunction to shut down the premium cabler’s upcoming Roger Ailes series starring Russell Crowe as the now deceased Fox News Channel boss.
Representing ex-Fnc booker and alleged victim of Ailes’s pervading sexual misconduct Laura Luhn, the conservative attorney is utilizing many of the arguments that failed Olivia de Havilland in her now Scotus rejected battle over her depiction in FX’s Feud: Bette & Joan in his second swing at the CBS-owned outlet, as well as producers Blumhouse Television. Swinging back against an assumed portrayal of Luhn as essentially a pimp for the much-accused Ailes, who was cut loose by the Murdochs with a multi-million-dollar package in the summer of 2016, Klayman also names journalist Gabriel Sherman, whose The Loudest...
Representing ex-Fnc booker and alleged victim of Ailes’s pervading sexual misconduct Laura Luhn, the conservative attorney is utilizing many of the arguments that failed Olivia de Havilland in her now Scotus rejected battle over her depiction in FX’s Feud: Bette & Joan in his second swing at the CBS-owned outlet, as well as producers Blumhouse Television. Swinging back against an assumed portrayal of Luhn as essentially a pimp for the much-accused Ailes, who was cut loose by the Murdochs with a multi-million-dollar package in the summer of 2016, Klayman also names journalist Gabriel Sherman, whose The Loudest...
- 1/9/2019
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Golden Globe nominee Sacha Baron Cohen was all smiles at Showtime’s holiday party on Sunset Boulevard last night. But the Who Is America? creator can’t be cheered about Roy Moore’s contention today in his $95 million defamation suit that he was “fraudulently induced” to appear on the satire series earlier this year.
“There are at least two primary misrepresentations at issue,” reads the opposition by the failed Alabama Senate candidate and his spouse Kayla Moore to a motion by Cohen, Showtime and CBS to have the matter dismissed.
“The first misrepresentation was that Judge Moore was being flown to Washington D.C. to receive an award for his support of Israel, when in actuality it was so that he could be falsely portrayed as a pedophile on national television,” the Moores’ lawyer Larry Klayman, who is also representing ex-Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio in his recent $300 million suit against CNN and others,...
“There are at least two primary misrepresentations at issue,” reads the opposition by the failed Alabama Senate candidate and his spouse Kayla Moore to a motion by Cohen, Showtime and CBS to have the matter dismissed.
“The first misrepresentation was that Judge Moore was being flown to Washington D.C. to receive an award for his support of Israel, when in actuality it was so that he could be falsely portrayed as a pedophile on national television,” the Moores’ lawyer Larry Klayman, who is also representing ex-Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio in his recent $300 million suit against CNN and others,...
- 12/13/2018
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Roy Moore, the former Alabama Republican senator who was accused of attempting to have sex with a 14-year-old when he was in his thirties, has filed a $95 million defamation lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen, Showtime and CBS, the TV network’s parent company.
The politician and former chief justice of Alabama’s supreme court appeared on Cohen’s Who Is America? in a segment where Baron Cohen, disguised as an Israeli anti-terror expert, waved what looked like a metal detector over Moore and claimed it could identify child molesters; it beeped when close to Moore.
The politician and former chief justice of Alabama’s supreme court appeared on Cohen’s Who Is America? in a segment where Baron Cohen, disguised as an Israeli anti-terror expert, waved what looked like a metal detector over Moore and claimed it could identify child molesters; it beeped when close to Moore.
- 9/5/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
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