Bamboozled By Borat?
Now suing, ex-frat boy loves 'gettin' drunk and havin' a good time'
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Bamboozled By Borat?
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NOVEMBER 13--Justin Seay, one of the many unwitting co-stars of 'Borat,' would prefer these days to be known only as 'John Doe.' The University of South Carolina graduate, 24, is one of two former fraternity members to file a lawsuit last week (using the fictitious Doe handle) against the comedy's producers and Twentieth Century Fox. An excerpt from the Los Angeles Superior court filing appears below. A drunken Seay appears in the film with two fellow Chi Psi frat brothers, and the boisterous trio acquits themselves exactly as you'd expect. In his lawsuit, Seay contends that last October the 'Borat' crew got him and his pals drunk and encouraged them to engage in 'behavior that they otherwise would not have engaged in.' As a result, Seay/Doe claims that he has suffered humiliation, mental anguish, and emotional and mental distress, for which he wants to be paid damages. We'll let the courts handle those claims, but Seay--pictured above in a still from the movie--does not seem like an amateur when it comes to partying. On his MySpace page, Seay lists 'gettin' drunk and havin' a good time' as one of his interests, along with NASCAR and 'pretty much any typical guy stuff.' In an August poem to Seay, a friend writes, 'Hey Hey Justin Seay, Drinks like a fish everyday!' A followup message opens with the salutation, 'Hi Drunk Friend!!!' But it is the photos of Seay that will probably draw the interest of lawyers defending the producers of the movie, which stars comedian Sacha Baron Cohen as a clueless, anti-Semitic journalist from Kazakhstan. Seay, it seems, is rarely photographed without alcohol in his hand, as seen in a series of eight MySpace photos reproduced here. Reached today on his cell phone, Seay, a former Chi Psi vice president, declined comment on his lawsuit. (10 pages)
