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 NEW YORK (AP) - A businessman seen fleeing from a hug from British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in the hit movie "Borat" has sued filmmaker 20th Century Fox, saying his civil rights were violated.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, seeks unspecified damages on behalf of the businessman, who listed himself as John Doe. The New York Post reported Thursday that the businessman was Jeffrey Lemerond, 31.
Lemerond, a Dartmouth College graduate and financial analyst, was shown running and yelling "Go away!" as Cohen's Borat character, a phony Kazakh journalist, chased him down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in an attempt to hug strangers. His lawyer did not immediately return a telephone message for comment Thursday.
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