Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani caught in compromising position with young actress in Borat film ‘gotcha’

Mr Giuliani was invited to a hotel in Manhattan in July to be interviewed by an actress pretending to be a Russian journalist

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Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and former New York mayor, has been caught in a compromising situation with a young actress while unsuspectingly being filmed for the latest Borat film.

Mr Giuliani was invited to a hotel in Manhattan in July by a member of comedian and director Sacha Baron Cohen’s team posing as a Russian reporter who said she wanted to talk about the president’s coronavirus handling.

The journalist, played by Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova, 24, starts off by discussing the virus and where it might have started with Mr Giuliani, 76.

“Not with a bat,” Mr Giuliani says. “Have you ever eaten a bat?” he asks the reporter, who gets him to agree to try one.

After they stop filming, she then invites the two-term mayor into the bedroom next door for a drink. She tells him she is nervous, to which he replies: “I’ll relax you, you want me to ask you a question?”

Baron-Cohen and Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova (24) in a scene from Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

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The actress then sits him on the bed and unbuckles his trousers in order to remove his microphone. Mr Giuliani then reaches his hands down his pants to tuck in his shirt.

At which point, Mr Cohen, dressed improbably in a wig and women’s underwear, bursts into the room and tells Mr Giuliani “she’s too old for you, she’s 15!” In other parts of the film, Ms Bakalova plays Borat’s 15-year-old daughter Tutar, though there is no suggestion Mr Giuliani thinks she is underage.

The attorney then calls the police, a detail that was reported back in July.

“I only later realised it must have been Sacha Baron Cohen,” Mr Giuliani told reporters. I thought about all the people he previously fooled and I felt good about myself because he didn’t get me.” 

Actor Sacha Baron Cohen arrives for premiere of "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit the Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" 

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The police found no crime had been committed. He made no immediate comment on the footage released on Wednesday.

British actor and filmmaker Mr Cohen, who is known for his gonzo-style political satires and “gotcha” journalism, has focused his attention this time around on the US ahead of the November election.

In the film ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’, which is due for release on Friday, Mr Cohen returns as popular character Borat, a Kazakh journalist who is sent to America to curry the favour of strongman president “McDonald Trump” by presenting a gift to his “vice premier,” “Mikhael” Pence. 

Donald Trump with then mayor Rudy Giuliani in 2015

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Mr Giuliani has become a key figure in Mr Trump’s campaign, as he was in 2016 in the run-up to his election.

He obtained a laptop hard drive purportedly belonging to Democrat nominee Joe Biden’s son Hunter reportedly left at a repair shop in Delaware.