Sacha Baron Cohen has beaten former Senate candidate Roy Moore’s 95 million defamation lawsuit against him.The Alabama politician sued Cohen after his 2018 “Who Is America?” sketch aired on Showtime.
The satirical series included Cohen joking about Moore’s multiple sexual assault allegations from then-underage women that were uncovered during his 2017 Senate campaign to fill the seat vacated when Jeff Sessions became U.S.
Attorney General.
He lost to Democrat Doug Jones.
No criminal charges were brought against Moore, who denied any wrongdoing, but that didn’t stop Cohen from making a crack over it.During the “Who Is America?” segment, Cohen steps into the role of a faux Israeli anti-terrorism expert named General Erran Morad, who pulls out a metal detector that he claims can also alert to a pedophile’s presence.
Despite Moore’s disclosure agreement before appearing in the series, he and wife Kayla Moore sued Cohen
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