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Nusret Gokce, the famed Turkish butcher, chef and restaurateur who goes by the nickname Salt Bae, is facing a $5 million copyright infringement lawsuit from a US artist who alleges the social media star has used his artwork across the world without permission.
Brooklyn artist Logan Hicks says he and fellow artist Joseph Iurato were hired by Gokce, who is behind Nusr-Et steakhouse in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, to create a mural of him in his signature salt-sprinkling pose , according to a Manhattan federal lawsuit, as reported by the
New York Post.
While the first work appeared in his Miami steakhouse, other commissioned stencils have since been seen in the chef s Dubai, Doha, Istanbul and New York outposts, say the court papers.