On her first day working as Mario Batali’s assistant in 1999, Laurie Woolever, then 25, got in a cab with the famous chef to go to a TV shoot. “Slide those thighs on over,” he told her.

This story contains mentions of sexual assault. Mario Batali races around his kitchen as he explains the difference between Pecorino and Parmesan. Two stockpots boil away on his stovetop while he ...

Getty Images He’s cooking again. After being publicly silent since 2017, when several women accused him of sexual assault and harassment, Mario Batali is planning a controversial comeback with a ...

Mario Batali found not guilty of sexual assault in Boston trial The evidence, the film suggests, is walking among us: Batali remains a free man even after multiple accusations of sexual assault ...

A woman who has accused celebrity chef Mario Batali of sexual misconduct anonymously has now gone on the record in a newly released Discovery+ documentary. "Batali: The Fall of a Superstar Chef ...

A woman who accused celebrity chef Mario Batali of sexual assault while unconscious is putting herself in the line of fire, identifying herself publicly for the first time since the alleged ...

By Julia Moskin and Kim Severson Last month, when the celebrity chef Mario Batali settled two lawsuits brought by women in Boston who said he had groped them in public in 2017, it seemed as if the ...

BOSTON — Mario Batali has agreed to settle two Massachusetts lawsuits that accused the celebrity chef of sexual assault, attorneys for the women said Wednesday. The decision to settle the cases ...

Disgraced celebrity chef Mario Batali settled separate sexual misconduct lawsuits against him by two women in Boston, lawyers for the accusers confirmed Tuesday, after he was found not guilty of ...

Mario Batali has agreed to settle two Massachusetts lawsuits that accused the celebrity chef of sexual assault, attorneys for the women said on Wednesday. The decision to settle the cases comes ...

Two months after a judge found him not guilty of charges of sexual misconduct, disgraced chef Mario Batali has settled lawsuits with two women who sued the chef for allegedly sexually assaulting them.