Trump Sues Two Celebrity Chefs Who Abandoned Restaurant Plans
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has filed a second lawsuit in Washington that accuses a celebrity chef of breaking a contract to open a restaurant in the new Trump hotel in downtown Washington.
August 09, 2015 at 07:04 PM
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Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has filed a second lawsuit in Washington that accuses a celebrity chef of breaking a contract to open a restaurant in the new Trump hotel in downtown Washington.
The complaint against Geoffrey Zakarian comes days after Trump sued chef and restaurateur José Andrés over his decision to pull out of Trump's hotel project. Zakarian, like Andrés, scrapped plans for a restaurant in the hotel in response to Trump's controversial remarks about immigration. Seyfarth Shaw partner Rebecca Woods is the lead attorney for Trump in both cases.
In a complaint filed on Aug. 3 in District of Columbia Superior Court, Trump said Zakarian breached the terms of their contract. Andrés and Zakarian's restaurants had been advertised as major features of Trump's renovation of D.C.'s Old Post Office building. The suit was filed against CZ-National LLC, the company formed for Zakarian's D.C. restaurant, and BVS Acquisition Co. LLC.
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