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How Borat Duped the Wellington Hotel

Where: 871 Seventh Avenue [map], New York, ny, United States, 10019-3830

Well, it looks like the folks at Wellington Hotel, where Borat crashed for a few nights during his controversial movie, wouldn't speak to us or other outlets but someone inside decided to speak with Page Six.

And surprise, surprise, Borat and his alter-ego Sasha Baron Cohen are no longer welcomed at the midtown hotel because of the way he duped the place:

He checked in as a travel writer from Kazakhstan and asked for a special rate, $100 a night, which we gave him - and then he tried to get it down to $30," a hotel insider said. But what really irked management was when, "in the middle of the night, his crew started carrying furniture out of the hotel. The night manager stopped them, and it turned out it was furniture that had been taken from a Sheraton in New Jersey. The police were called, and Borat ran out of the hotel as fast as he could."

Ok, this makes us laugh. Stealing furniture from a hotel in Jersey? They should have filmed that part. But the bargaining down to $30...not so cool. For the record, we don't do that. Then again, we don't have any fluffy mustaches to accent our good looks and charm. Perhaps if Borat's had been just a wee bit fluffier, he could have haggled successfully.

Related Stories:
· Wellington Hotel Talks Borat [HotelChatter]
· Guest from Hell [Page Six]