Celebrity chef Mario Batali is seated at Boston Municipal Court on the second day of his sexual misconduct trial on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 in Boston. Batali pleaded not-guilty to a charge of ...

Batali was “grabbing me in a way that I was never touched before,” she told the court. “It was all happening so quickly and it was happening essentially the whole time,” she testified.

Chef Mario Batali has been found not guilty on a charge of indecent assault and battery after he was accused of allegedly groping and kissing a woman he took a selfie with in 2017.

Chef Mario Batali has settled two lawsuits with women who accused him of touching them inappropriately in separate incidents in 2016 and 2017.

Batali was accused of groping a woman, Natali Tene, at a bar in 2017. Tene testified that she saw Batali and took a photo of him without his permission, and he noticed and called her over.

Batali was an investor in this restaurant, and he used it as his personal rumpus room; the private third floor room of the Spotted Pig was nicknamed the “rape room.” ...

Mario Batali’s accuser did not appear on camera. The judge in the celebrity chef’s trial, which began in Boston on Monday, ordered that CourtTV’s airing of live testimony could not show the ...

Woman testifies that Chef Mario Batali was ‘grabbing me in a way that I was never touched before’ By Shelley Murphy and John R. Ellement Globe Staff, Updated May 9, 2022, 1:09 p.m.

If Batali is convicted, he could face up to two and a half years in prison, the New York Times reported. He could also be required to register as a sex offender.

Batali still faces indecent-assault raps in Boston for a 2017 incident in which he allegedly groped and kissed a woman at a restaurant. He pleaded not guilty, and the case is still pending.

But Mario Batali, ex-celebrity chef and onetime evangelist for refined Italian cookery, is not a criminal—not according to the New York City Police Department, which dropped an investigation ...

Mr. Batali saw her surreptitiously shoot a photo of him from a few seats away at the bar, then invited her to take some pictures with him, she said. As the photo session began, she testified, so ...