Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is being sued for £70m after a Palestinian activist claimed his film, Bruno, “ruined his life”.
In Mr Baron Cohen’s latest movie about a gay Austrian fashion designer, his character Bruno travels to the Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp in Lebanon to meet a man claimed in the film to be a “terrorist group leader, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade”.
Mr Baron Cohen later claimed on David Letterman’s US chat show that the production team found Aymna Abu Aita through a contact in the CIA.
Mr Abu Aita, who says he is a peace activist from Bethlehem, said the scenes were actually filmed in a hotel near Bethlehem, near an Israeli army base.
