Wolfgang Puck Sued for Crappy Dining Experience

Wolfgang Puck is being sued over a restaurant bathroom -- not because a woman claims it was covered in "urine and feces" -- but because someone allegedly ripped her off the crapper while she was in mid-squat.

Spago

The woman claims she just wanted to take care of some toilet business during a lunch at Puck's most famous Beverly Hills restaurant, Spago back in 2007. But according to the lawsuit, filed in L.A. County Superior Court, the bathroom floor was covered in "standing pools of urine and feces" -- and the only usable toilet didn't have a lock on the door.

Here's where it gets messy -- the woman, Majorie Linden, claims she had to use one of her hands to hold the door closed while she took care of business on the throne. But mid-squat, with her hand stuck firmly on the handle, another woman allegedly yanked the door open causing Linden to fall "face-first onto the tile floor."

Marjorie claims the fall broke her back, messed up her knee, and caused serious mental damage -- among other things. Needless to say, she's suing.

But reps for Spago claim the woman is completely full of crap when it comes to the cleanliness of their bathrooms -- "In our 27 years of business we've never had an issue close to this ... that portion of the claim is totally without merit."

Tags: beverly hills, BeverlyHills, feces, lawsuit, Majorie Linden, MajorieLinden, spago, urine, wolfgang puck, WolfgangPuck

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1. the health department would have shut them down if it was true

Posted at 2:34AM on Apr 28th 2009 by amanda

2. The woman is "full of crap"? Do I smell some bad TMZ irony here?

Posted at 2:46AM on Apr 28th 2009 by Ann

3. Don`t do the smit if you can`t close the shielt!.PHONE cams photo`s of me smitting were`nt cool but I closed the deal and GOT.Same old smit time after time messy but when you got`a go...secure your smit than get.How about a broken bypass bage full of smit/blood and someone yelling for help laying in it and a million people running away.First aid in the blood N smit isn`t glory it`s called being a human being!.

Posted at 2:47AM on Apr 28th 2009 by BATH room SS

4. Wolfgang Puck sales an so-called organtic canned soup commercially, with ungodly amounts of sodium in it. He should be ashamed of himself!!!

Posted at 2:58AM on Apr 28th 2009 by Omni

5. Addendum: Wolfgang Puck sales a so-called organtic canned soup commercially, with ungodly amounts of sodium in it. He should be ashamed of himself!!!

Posted at 3:00AM on Apr 28th 2009 by Omni

6. I had dinner at Spago's 20yrs. ago and I wouldn't doubt that urine/feces was on the floor in the bathroom.

The entire staff except head chef and waitstaff consists of illegal immigrants and one of them actually grabbed my friends butt when she walked to the bathroom.

The dining area was dingy 20 yrs ago.

Don't believe the hype of this location. Its has been run down for years.

My native Californian friend didn't want to eat there but as a tourist I did. She said tourists and wanna be seen pretentious phonies eat there. Occasionally an actor/ friend of Pucks will pop in for notoriety.

The food was over priced and okay to be honest.....but then it could have been the chef on duty.

Seriously.....the food at any Friday's or O'Charleys is just as tasty.

Posted at 4:06AM on Apr 28th 2009 by Jenn

7. I hate that women...yaaaaak

Posted at 5:40AM on Apr 28th 2009 by sachin

8. Note that they said never in their 27 years of business, did they have anything "close to this" . That sounds like they did have similar incidents, but not as bad.

Posted at 6:20AM on Apr 28th 2009 by Linda Mott

9. One of the classiest restaurants have a bathroom this way? I don't believe it in a minute. I hear and read that's where all the celebrities go and they wouldn't if the place is what the woman described. As far as her sueing, people are sue-happy anymore and I hope she loses. Remember those girls who said that McDonald's made them fat and tried to sue? It's sad anymore....

Posted at 6:33AM on Apr 28th 2009 by Karen Ann

10. Hey, it can happen to any restaurant and it has nothing to do with class. A toilet could have overflowed just before the woman entered and the staff didn't even know about it yet. The restaurant is still liable. It's been my experience that the upscale restaurants are always the ones with broken stall locks too.

Posted at 6:49AM on Apr 28th 2009 by No way!

11. #3...W H A T...T H E... F U C K are you talking about? are you smoking crack, shooting heroin, smoking bud, snorting coke or smoking meth??? not only do you sound like a complete douchenozzle, but you also make zero sense,,,,i know this is TMZ (the lowest class of smut available) but, SERIOUSLY get an effing grip on yourself before posting a comment.,,,was your post a lame ass attempt at impersonating wolfgang puck? i would call you a 'tard, but i think thats giving you waaaay too much credit so i will just stick with F~U~C~K ~I~N~G T~O~O~L

Posted at 6:55AM on Apr 28th 2009 by boo

12. Let me tell you, all te red lobsters I know have never had this problem and it's a normal resturant. Same goes for applebees, etc. Those upperclass restaurants are a pain in the azz

Posted at 7:00AM on Apr 28th 2009 by Katherine

13. Why did she wait two years before suing??

Posted at 8:08AM on Apr 28th 2009 by RACEHEAD

14. Hey # 3 WTF Boo is right. If your going to make a comment a least make some F&*KING sense. GET HELP F*&CKWAD

Posted at 8:23AM on Apr 28th 2009 by Whamo

15. Nah, holding onto a bathroom stall door while someone is pulling would NOT result in you baing knocked to the floor and breaking body parts. Sounds like she fell off of a ladder while at home and then decided to sue Puck. I know someone who actually did this while he worked for UPS. He then claimed he hurt himself at work and collected from his job. And soon everyone in the family talked about the accident as if it had happened that way, despite the fact that I'd seen the actual accident occur.

Posted at 12:46PM on Apr 28th 2009 by louis

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