Posted Jul 25th 2009 5:30AM by TMZ Staff
Mo' money mo' problems for Puff Daddy.
Records show the rap mogul's popular soul food eatery in Atlanta, Justin's Restaurant, owes $7,373 in back taxes -- this according to The Detroit News.
Diddy's reps claim it was all just a misunderstanding and say the government was sending notices to the restaurant's headquarters office in NYC -- which closed over ten years ago.
Bottom line -- Diddy says the check's in the mail.
Filed under: Food Glorious Food
Tags: diddy, p diddy, PDiddy, puff daddy, PuffDaddy, restuarant, taxes
Posted May 15th 2009 5:34PM by TMZ Staff
The restaurant Justin Timberlake helped open in NY has just been hit with a sexual harassment suit, after a former employee claims JT's business partners forced her to watch porn to the point she broke into tears.
In the suit, obtained by the NY Daily News, Alison McDaniel alleges "vile" acts courtesy of Southern Hospitality. McDaniel says she was spit on and called numerous expletives.
McDaniel claims Justin's business partners -- Eytan Sugarman and Ronnie Kaplan -- made her watch "pornography while in a locked room... and made fun of her when she began crying."
The suit claims Alison was fired after complaining.
Justin, along with Sugarman and Kaplan and Trace Ayala, are all named as defendants.
UPDATE: Justin's people just send us this comment: "While Justin and Trace Ayala continue their friendship with Eytan Sugarman who owns Southern Hospitality, they are not investors, owners, or partners, nor do they have any knowledge of or involvement in the operations of the restaurant."
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Filed under: Justin Timberlake
Tags: Alison McDaniel, AlisonMcdaniel, Eytan Sugarman, EytanSugarman, Justin timberlake, JustinTimberlake, lawsuit, new york, NewYork, NYC, restuarant, sexual harassment, SexualHarassment, Southern Hospitality, SouthernHospitality