Chef Mario Batali charged for indecent assault and battery

CRIMINAL CHARGES. Celebrity chef Mario Batali will be arraigned for sexual assault and battery. Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP

The alleged assault dates to April 2017. The accuser reportedly met the chef while they were dining separately at the same restaurant, the Towne Stove and Spirits, not far from Batali's restaurant Eataly. "Mario Batali abused his celebrity status... while taking the photograph, Mario Batali groped her breasts, buttocks and genitals and kissed her repeatedly without consent," Baum said in a statement.Batali's lawyer Anthony Fuller said the charges,"brought by the same individual without any new basis, are without merit."

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