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"   Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has been slapped with a $10.8 million lawsuit from former business partner. Rowen Seibel,who has licensed the Serendipity trademarks for restaurants in Las Vegas, Florida, and Washington D.C., is accusing Ramsay of running their joint LA venture, the Fat Cow, into the ground. According to court documents Seibel claims, &amp;quot;Gordon Ramsay attempted to run the business and make decisions \u2026 similar to his television personality on Hell&amp;#039;s Kitchen \u2014 as a dictatorship, without the proper authority and without consent of his partner.&amp;quot; More From Delish: Was Gordon Ramsay Joking When He Admitted to Spying on His Teenage Daughter? According to the New York Post, Seibel invested $800,000 into the burger joint back in September 2012. They had a 50/50 partnership in the restaurant, however, Seibel claims despite knowledge of possible trademark infringement issues, Ramsay moved forward with naming the restaurant The Fat Cow. Seibel claims Ramsay wasn&amp;#039;t worried about any trademark issues saying, &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t worry, I&amp;#039;m the trademark queen.&amp;quot; But less than two years after the two opened The Fat Cow, according to legal documents from Seibel&amp;#039;s team, Ramsay shut down the restaurant and cited trademark problems as the reason. More From Delish: Gordon Ramsay Tried to Smuggle a Bottle of Dom P\u00E9rignon into Qatar Seibel&amp;#039;s lawsuit says: &amp;quot;Ramsay fraudulently induced Seibel to invest over $800,000 in Fat Cow Restaurant \u2014 an investment that went towards an expensive build-out of the lease space with a new kitchen, new fixtures and furnishings, and to train the restaurant staff \u2014 but then intentionally forced Fat Cow Restaurant to close so that he could use Seibel&amp;#039;s investment to benefit another Gordon Ramsay restaurant.&amp;quot; Ramsay&amp;#039;s team claimed Seibel&amp;#039;s lawsuit is &amp;quot;ridiculous&amp;quot; and that &amp;quot;he and his team were responsible for the day-to-day running of The Fat Cow and spectacularly mismanaged it, resulting in a string of financial and legal issues. Gordon Ramsay and his team immediately stepped in and tried to resolve these issues, but Seibel refused to engage in any meaningful conversations, rendering the restaurant unsustainable.&amp;quot; In addition to the suit from Seibel, the restaurant was sued by workers and a former contractor for unpaid wages. Who do you think is at fault? Find more great food content on Delish: Search for the perfect recipe from our homepageFind out the latest food newsGet a recipe book to save your favorite dishesSign up for our free newsletters Check us out on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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