{"id":19816,"date":"2011-12-22T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/mario-batali-accused-of-condoning-sexual-harassment-in-butt-slapping-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2011-12-22T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T21:23:00","slug":"mario-batali-accused-of-condoning-sexual-harassment-in-butt-slapping-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/22\/mario-batali-accused-of-condoning-sexual-harassment-in-butt-slapping-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Batali Accused of Condoning Sexual Harassment in Butt-Slapping Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mario Batali<\/span> Accused in Butt-Slapping Suit<\/span> Of Ignoring Sexual Misdeeds<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mario Batali<\/strong>‘s name has been dragged into a sexual harassment lawsuit in New York — in which an ex-waiter claims the famous chef stood by for months … while his fellow workers tortured him with butt slaps and masturbation stories.<\/p>\n

Eugene Gibbons<\/strong> filed the suit in NY Supreme Court, claiming several co-workers ruthlessly harassed him while he worked at Batali’s Babbo Restaurant<\/strong> in NYC — co-owned by “MasterChef<\/strong>” judge Joe Bastianich<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

According to the suit, Eugene’s co-workers “smacked his buttocks on a weekly basis,” repeatedly grabbed his genitals, and made crude sexual comments … including one instance when an employee told Eugene he masturbated to Eugene’s pictures after his wife went to sleep.<\/p>\n

Eugene claims Batali and Bastianich were fully aware of the harassment — but did nothing to stop it …\u00a0 the suit claims … by their inaction the two chefs condoned the campaign of humiliation.<\/p>\n

Eugene ultimately quit — he’s now suing his former co-workers and the restaurant for unspecified damages. Batali and Bastianich were not named as defendants. Calls to Mario and the restaurant were not returned.<\/p>\n

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