By April MacIntyre Mar 24, 2009, 15:50 GMT
Sacha Baron Cohen has cleverly disguised his production company's efforts for his latest film "Bruno" by creating false company "fronts."
Ruse-you: British actor Sacha Baron Cohen applauds during the fashion show of Noramluisa at Milan Fashion Week, Italy, 26 September 2008. After invading the catwalk during the fashion show of Agatha Ruiz, in the morning, and being stopped by police, he reappeared in the afternoon in the shoes of his new comic character, the fashion reporter Bruno, who will be the protagonist of his next film. EPA/GIULIO DI MAURO
The Smoking Gun reports that Cohen's front companies were made to "trick Americans into appearing in his latest film."
The site claims his "cohorts" have erased the fictitious web sites of purported production companies, but that records show that Cohen "has more than two dozen other front firms" created for the production of "Bruno", the follow-up to the 2006 hit "Borat."
In "Bruno", Cohen appears as a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion commentator.
TSG claims that Cohen used the following companies: Amesbury Chase Productions, Chromium Films, Cold Stream Productions, and Coral Blue Productions--and launched web sites for the dummy companies.
The purpose of these false "store fronts" was to have "unwitting interview subjects have been asked to participate in a documentary for German television that was supposedly being prepared by a Los Angeles production company" according to TSG.
Now these false entities "have been scrubbed of their content and left with blank pages" according to TSG, and they also claim corporate records reveal "27 other Cohen-fronted companies were created at the same time as Amesbury Chase and the other shells."
To see the false websites, visit here link
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