Celebrity chef Mario Batali and his business partner have agreed to pay $600,000 to at least 20 former employees after an investigation found their Manhattan restaurants were rife with sexual harassment, the New York attorney-general announced on Friday.
Celebrity chef Mario Batali talks during an interview with Reuters at his restaurant, Del Posto, in New York.
After waiters and other workers came forward with complaints, Batali sold his stake in his restaurants in 2019. Del Posto closed in April. The attorney-general's investigation found that Batali himself grabbed a female server's hand and pulled it towards his crotch, and that he showed a male server an “unwelcome” pornographic video, according to a summary of the settlement.
Batali could not immediately be reached for comment, but told the New York Times he would not be publicly discussing the settlement.
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