A second woman has come forward to sue celebrity hotspot Nobu Malibu over alleged sexual harassment and other actions by managers and customers.
A woman identified only as Jayne Doe II filed the latest suit Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court. The legal documents allege sexual assault and battery, gender discrimination, harassment, retaliation, failure to prevent discrimination and harassment, and negligent hiring and supervision.
The latest plaintiff joins a complaint filed on Sept. 13 by a 23-year-old hostess. That plaintiff also alleged that she and her female colleagues were routinely subjected to sexual assault by customers and managers.
The Nobu restaurants were founded by chef Nobu Matsuhisa and are coowned by actor Robert De Niro and producer Meir Teper. The restaurant is a celebrity favorite, and legal documents say the venue is frequented by such clients as the Kardashians, Beyonce, and Justin Bieber.
Nobu has not commented on the latest lawsuit...
A woman identified only as Jayne Doe II filed the latest suit Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court. The legal documents allege sexual assault and battery, gender discrimination, harassment, retaliation, failure to prevent discrimination and harassment, and negligent hiring and supervision.
The latest plaintiff joins a complaint filed on Sept. 13 by a 23-year-old hostess. That plaintiff also alleged that she and her female colleagues were routinely subjected to sexual assault by customers and managers.
The Nobu restaurants were founded by chef Nobu Matsuhisa and are coowned by actor Robert De Niro and producer Meir Teper. The restaurant is a celebrity favorite, and legal documents say the venue is frequented by such clients as the Kardashians, Beyonce, and Justin Bieber.
Nobu has not commented on the latest lawsuit...
- 9/21/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Hollywood hotspot Nobu Malibu was sued Sept. 13 by a Jane Doe plaintiff who alleges hostesses are “subjected to an intense pattern and practice” of sexual misconduct from supervisors. According to a review of court documents by The Hollywood Reporter, the lawsuit contains similar claims as at least two others filed against the Malibu location of the restaurant since 2019.
Nobu didn’t respond to email and phone inquiries for comment. The restaurant was founded by chef Nobu Matsuhisa, Robert De Niro and producer Meir Teper. Since opening in 1994, it’s become a hub for Hollywood power players, and the brand has expanded to include 56 locations across the world and a hotel chain.
The trio of lawsuits claim sexual advances and groping from supervisors after which management neglected to properly respond to the alleged misconduct to prevent retaliation from the employees’ supervisors.
The Jane Doe plaintiff who filed the lawsuit on Wednesday...
Nobu didn’t respond to email and phone inquiries for comment. The restaurant was founded by chef Nobu Matsuhisa, Robert De Niro and producer Meir Teper. Since opening in 1994, it’s become a hub for Hollywood power players, and the brand has expanded to include 56 locations across the world and a hotel chain.
The trio of lawsuits claim sexual advances and groping from supervisors after which management neglected to properly respond to the alleged misconduct to prevent retaliation from the employees’ supervisors.
The Jane Doe plaintiff who filed the lawsuit on Wednesday...
- 9/15/2023
- by Winston Cho
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Kendall Jenner can add sake master to her resume.
The model and reality TV star helped celebrity chef and restaurateur Nobu Matsuhisa relaunch Nobu Dubai at The Atlantis Palm on Friday night, performing the traditional Japanese ceremony “kagami biraki,” where one breaks open sake barrel lids to signify good fortune and harmony.
Japanese Taiko drummers kicked off the event to get the crowd going ahead of the ritual.
“Thank you for coming. I’d like to introduce my modest traditions from Japanese culture,” Matsuhisa told attendees. “Today is a very special day. I’d like to celebrate with all of you guys. Enjoy the party!”
Jenner, in a bright green dress and over-the-knee black leather boots, matched with long black gloves, joined Matsuhisa and Nobu co-founder Meir Teper and took a wooden mallet to break open the lid of sake. Celebrity guests — including singer Liam Payne, actress Nia Long and...
The model and reality TV star helped celebrity chef and restaurateur Nobu Matsuhisa relaunch Nobu Dubai at The Atlantis Palm on Friday night, performing the traditional Japanese ceremony “kagami biraki,” where one breaks open sake barrel lids to signify good fortune and harmony.
Japanese Taiko drummers kicked off the event to get the crowd going ahead of the ritual.
“Thank you for coming. I’d like to introduce my modest traditions from Japanese culture,” Matsuhisa told attendees. “Today is a very special day. I’d like to celebrate with all of you guys. Enjoy the party!”
Jenner, in a bright green dress and over-the-knee black leather boots, matched with long black gloves, joined Matsuhisa and Nobu co-founder Meir Teper and took a wooden mallet to break open the lid of sake. Celebrity guests — including singer Liam Payne, actress Nia Long and...
- 1/21/2023
- by Mesfin Fekadu
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Robert De Niro has admitted that he doesn’t know the names of all of his dogs.
The legendary actor appeared on Jessie Ware’s Table Manners podcast on Wednesday (26 October) alongside chef Nobu Matsuhisa and film producer Meir Teper, with whom he founded the sushi restaurant Nobu.
During the interview, host Ware – who presents along with her mum Lennie – asked De Niro what his favourite dish on the menu at the restaurant was.
The actor was unable to remember the name of his top picks, saying: “There’s so many things that come up that I don’t know the names.”
He then continued: “I have a bunch of little dogs, I don’t even know all their names. They’re all there, I love them, but I just don’t know.”
Asked by Ware how many dogs he had, the Goodfellas actor responded: “I have a few. More...
The legendary actor appeared on Jessie Ware’s Table Manners podcast on Wednesday (26 October) alongside chef Nobu Matsuhisa and film producer Meir Teper, with whom he founded the sushi restaurant Nobu.
During the interview, host Ware – who presents along with her mum Lennie – asked De Niro what his favourite dish on the menu at the restaurant was.
The actor was unable to remember the name of his top picks, saying: “There’s so many things that come up that I don’t know the names.”
He then continued: “I have a bunch of little dogs, I don’t even know all their names. They’re all there, I love them, but I just don’t know.”
Asked by Ware how many dogs he had, the Goodfellas actor responded: “I have a few. More...
- 10/26/2022
- by Isobel Lewis
- The Independent - Film
Paul Anka is a married man!
The 75-year-old singer wed his girlfriend of six years, Lisa Pemberton, in a beautiful sunset ceremony at the Four Seasons in Los Angeles, California on Oct. 22, Et confirms.
Watch: Justin Timberlake Crashes a Wedding, Snaps Pics With the Bride and Groom
Pemberton was adorably escorted by Anka's 11-year-old son, Ethan, as she walked down an aisle covered by white rose pedals to meet Anka at the altar.
Surrounded by family and friends, the couple exchanged vows to a crowd that included Bob and Tamar Manoukian, Steve and Andrea Wynn, Warren and Astrid Buffett, Brian and Veronica Grazer, Carlos Slim, Ghada Irani, and Katya and Meir Teper.
After the ceremony, the couple and their guests headed to the dance floor, as Anka and Pemberton shared their first dance to Van Morrison's "Someone Like You."
Anka couldn't help but boast about the big event on Instagram the next day. "Yesterday I married...
The 75-year-old singer wed his girlfriend of six years, Lisa Pemberton, in a beautiful sunset ceremony at the Four Seasons in Los Angeles, California on Oct. 22, Et confirms.
Watch: Justin Timberlake Crashes a Wedding, Snaps Pics With the Bride and Groom
Pemberton was adorably escorted by Anka's 11-year-old son, Ethan, as she walked down an aisle covered by white rose pedals to meet Anka at the altar.
Surrounded by family and friends, the couple exchanged vows to a crowd that included Bob and Tamar Manoukian, Steve and Andrea Wynn, Warren and Astrid Buffett, Brian and Veronica Grazer, Carlos Slim, Ghada Irani, and Katya and Meir Teper.
After the ceremony, the couple and their guests headed to the dance floor, as Anka and Pemberton shared their first dance to Van Morrison's "Someone Like You."
Anka couldn't help but boast about the big event on Instagram the next day. "Yesterday I married...
- 10/30/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
It sure sounds crazy: actor Antonio Banderas directing wife Melanie Griffith in a summer of '65 comedy-drama that's as much about the civil rights movement as the escape of a frustrated mother from a bad husband and dead-end life. But based on Mark Childress' 1993 novel, with the author penning the screenplay, "Crazy in Alabama" is a genuinely fine, albeit lost-in-time, movie.
Uncorked at the Venice Film Festival in competition, the Columbia Pictures release (opening Oct. 22) will probably have a so-so reception at the boxoffice. But good word-of-mouth and critical support should give it strong momentum going into post-theatrical markets.
A little less graphic than the novel, "Crazy" commences after the off-screen killing of Chester, abusive husband of Lucille (Griffith). With her seven children and Chester's head in a Tupperware container, smiling, dizzy Lucille comes running to her mother and older brother Dove (David Morse), a funeral-home operator who brings his parentless nephews Peejoe (Lucas Black) and Wiley (David Speck) to live with him in the ensuing crisis.
Lucille hits the road on her own, heading for fame and fortune, taking her husband's head, and leaving the kids behind. In parallel stories, the movie shifts between her escapades and the two teenage boys in company with Dove, who become central characters after they see racial tensions turn deadly in their decidedly southern town.
Lucille is a bit cracked (she has conversations with Chester's head), star struck (she gives herself a Marilyn Monroe-like showbiz name) and definitely lucky (winning thousands by playing No. 13 at roulette in Las Vegas). She's a late-blooming Auntie Mame-type with an itch for adventures with strange men and making it in Hollywood, where she heads for an audition to appear on "I Dream of Jeannie" as arranged by a savvy agent (Robert Wagner).
Meanwhile, back in combustible Alabama, the redneck sheriff (Meat Loaf) is a little too rough breaking up a peaceful protest by black kids wanting to use the "whites-only" public swimming pool. Peejoe is by far the most tolerant of the locals in regards to equality for blacks and refuses to keep quiet when a young protester is accidentally killed and nobody raises a fuss.
While the sheriff is zealous about catching Lucille for the murder of Chester, he's also slowly backed into a corner and lashes out at Peejoe. Dove's trashy wife (Cathy Moriarty) voices the casual and pervasive racist attitudes of the times that only make Peejoe more determined. Dove is no crusader for truth and justice, but it's part of the film's delicate balancing act that we're never encouraged to make superficial judgments about characters. When Lucille is arrested and brought to trial, Peejoe is a prime witness and many wrongs are righted with the help of an eccentric judge (the show-stopping Rod Steiger).
Ranging from serious drama to nostalgic comedy to courtroom farce, "Crazy" is winning entertainment largely because of first-time director Banderas' lively, perceptive and often moody approach to the material. The performances are also a big help -- with Griffith going to town in one of her best roles in years and extremely likable Black proving that "Sling Blade" was no fluke. The costumes, hairdos, sets, cars and songs on the soundtrack are all out-of-sight.
CRAZY IN ALABAMA
Columbia Pictures
A Green Moon production
in association with a Meir Teper production
Director: Antonio Banderas
Screenwriter: Mark Childress
Producers: Meir Teper, Linda Goldstein Knowlton, Diane Sillan Isaacs, Debra
Hill
Executive producer: Jim Dyer
Director of photography: Julio Macat
Production designer: Cecilia Montiel
Editor: Maysie Hoy
Costume designer: Graciela Mazon
Music: Mark Snow
Casting: Mindy Marin
Color/stereo
Cast:
Lucille: Melanie Griffith
Peejoe: Lucas Black
Wiley: David Speck
Dove Bullis: David Morse
Earlene Bullis: Cathy Moriarty
Sherriff John Doggett: Meat Loaf
Judge Mead: Rod Steiger
Harry Hall: Robert Wagner
Running time -- 111 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Uncorked at the Venice Film Festival in competition, the Columbia Pictures release (opening Oct. 22) will probably have a so-so reception at the boxoffice. But good word-of-mouth and critical support should give it strong momentum going into post-theatrical markets.
A little less graphic than the novel, "Crazy" commences after the off-screen killing of Chester, abusive husband of Lucille (Griffith). With her seven children and Chester's head in a Tupperware container, smiling, dizzy Lucille comes running to her mother and older brother Dove (David Morse), a funeral-home operator who brings his parentless nephews Peejoe (Lucas Black) and Wiley (David Speck) to live with him in the ensuing crisis.
Lucille hits the road on her own, heading for fame and fortune, taking her husband's head, and leaving the kids behind. In parallel stories, the movie shifts between her escapades and the two teenage boys in company with Dove, who become central characters after they see racial tensions turn deadly in their decidedly southern town.
Lucille is a bit cracked (she has conversations with Chester's head), star struck (she gives herself a Marilyn Monroe-like showbiz name) and definitely lucky (winning thousands by playing No. 13 at roulette in Las Vegas). She's a late-blooming Auntie Mame-type with an itch for adventures with strange men and making it in Hollywood, where she heads for an audition to appear on "I Dream of Jeannie" as arranged by a savvy agent (Robert Wagner).
Meanwhile, back in combustible Alabama, the redneck sheriff (Meat Loaf) is a little too rough breaking up a peaceful protest by black kids wanting to use the "whites-only" public swimming pool. Peejoe is by far the most tolerant of the locals in regards to equality for blacks and refuses to keep quiet when a young protester is accidentally killed and nobody raises a fuss.
While the sheriff is zealous about catching Lucille for the murder of Chester, he's also slowly backed into a corner and lashes out at Peejoe. Dove's trashy wife (Cathy Moriarty) voices the casual and pervasive racist attitudes of the times that only make Peejoe more determined. Dove is no crusader for truth and justice, but it's part of the film's delicate balancing act that we're never encouraged to make superficial judgments about characters. When Lucille is arrested and brought to trial, Peejoe is a prime witness and many wrongs are righted with the help of an eccentric judge (the show-stopping Rod Steiger).
Ranging from serious drama to nostalgic comedy to courtroom farce, "Crazy" is winning entertainment largely because of first-time director Banderas' lively, perceptive and often moody approach to the material. The performances are also a big help -- with Griffith going to town in one of her best roles in years and extremely likable Black proving that "Sling Blade" was no fluke. The costumes, hairdos, sets, cars and songs on the soundtrack are all out-of-sight.
CRAZY IN ALABAMA
Columbia Pictures
A Green Moon production
in association with a Meir Teper production
Director: Antonio Banderas
Screenwriter: Mark Childress
Producers: Meir Teper, Linda Goldstein Knowlton, Diane Sillan Isaacs, Debra
Hill
Executive producer: Jim Dyer
Director of photography: Julio Macat
Production designer: Cecilia Montiel
Editor: Maysie Hoy
Costume designer: Graciela Mazon
Music: Mark Snow
Casting: Mindy Marin
Color/stereo
Cast:
Lucille: Melanie Griffith
Peejoe: Lucas Black
Wiley: David Speck
Dove Bullis: David Morse
Earlene Bullis: Cathy Moriarty
Sherriff John Doggett: Meat Loaf
Judge Mead: Rod Steiger
Harry Hall: Robert Wagner
Running time -- 111 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 9/10/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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