BOSTON, May 9 Celebrity chef Mario Batali goes on trial today over allegations that he forcibly groped and kissed a woman in the only criminal case to result from multiple #MeToo-era claims of sexual harassment and assault that helped fuel his downfall. Batali will appear in Boston Municipal.
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Celebrity chef Mario Batali, 58, is arraigned on a charge of indecent assault and battery at Boston Municpal Court in Boston May 24, 2019. Reuters pic
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NEW YORK, July 24 ― US celebrity chefs Mario Batali and Joseph Bastianich agreed to pay US$600,000 (RM2.53 million) in a settlement to 20 former employees over sexual harassment allegations, the New York Attorney General said yesterday.
A four-year investigation launched after accusations of sexual harassment were leveled against Batali concluded that “more than 20 employees were subjected to a hostile work environment in which female and male employees were sexually harassed by Batali, restaurant managers and other coworkers,” said a statement from the attorney general s office.