‘Borat 2’ Star Jeanise Jones Fund Gets $100k Donation From Sacha Baron Cohen - Deadline

Sacha Baron Cohen has donated $100,000 to the community church of Jeanise Jones, the woman who played the unwitting babysitter to Borat’s daughter, Tutar (Maria Bakalova) in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.

Jones’s church initially started a GoFundMe campaign to help out Jones, who won over audience hearts with her earnest affection for Bakalova, whom she thought was a 15-year-old girl who was being sold as a child bride to an older man.

Because Jones is unemployed and a church favorite, her pastor started a GoFundMe to help her out.

I would be remiss if I didn’t thank Sacha Cohen Baron and (producer) Monica Levinson for casting Jeanise in this movie.”.

At Jones’s request, the $100,000 from Baron Cohen will not go to Jones but will be spread out to her Oklahoma City community on her behalf by the local Ebenezer Baptist Church.

Pastor Derrick Scobey said none of the Baron Cohen money will be going to the church itself.