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Sacha Baron Cohen Pranks Rudy Giuliani – in Pink Drag

“This guy comes running in, wearing a crazy, what I would say was a pink transgender outfit,” Giuliani told the New York Post.
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July 9, 2020

Notorious prankster Sacha Baron Cohen was up to old tricks on July 9 when he pranked President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani at an interview at a New York hotel. Cohen, who had pre-arranged credentials, burst into the room yelling and screaming, dressed in a pink bikini. 

“This guy comes running in, wearing a crazy, what I would say was a pink transgender outfit,” Giuliani told the New York Post. “It was a pink bikini, with lace, underneath a translucent mesh top, it looked absurd. He had the beard, bare legs and wasn’t what I would call distractingly attractive. I thought this must be a scam or a shakedown, so I reported it to the police. He then ran away.” Since no crime was committed, no arrest was made. 

The motive for the shenanigans? Cohen is filming another season of his Showtime series “Who is America?” in which he dons disguises to ask people absurd questions and provoke a response. On June 28, an undercover Cohen infiltrated a right-wing rally in Washington state. 3.

As an actor, Cohen has several projects in the works. He plays Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman in the completed film “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and the tile role in “Mandrake the Magician” is on his future slate.

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