Mario Batali Drugged, Assaulted Woman At The Spotted Pig: Report

WEST VILLAGE, NY — Disgraced celebrity chef Mario Batali is under investigation by the NYPD after a woman told "60 Minutes" that she was drugged and assaulted by Batali in 2005.

Multiple women first came forward in December to accuse Batali of a range of inappropriate behavior, telling Eater that the prolific restaurateur had groped, assaulted or made inappropriate comments to them.

In a new segment on Sunday night, multiple women told "60 Minutes" host Anderson Cooper additional details about their accusations against Batali.

"The NYPD is investigating allegations raised in the 60 Minutes report," NYPD Lieutenant John Grimpel confirmed in a statement to Patch. Police did not say which specific allegations they were investigating.

One woman, who remained anonymous, told Cooper that she worked at Batali's popular West Village restaurant Babbo in 2005. The woman said that Batali invited her to a party at The Spotted Pig, and that she remembers little from that night after things started to get "foggy."

"I woke up by myself on the floor, I don't know where I am, of an empty room, wooden floor," the woman said. "The first thing I think is, 'I've been drugged.' That was the first thing I thought is, 'I've been—I've been assaulted.'"

The woman said she saw deep scratches on her right leg, and what she assumed was DNA on her clothes.

"You believe he broke the law with you?" Cooper asked the woman during Sunday's show.

"Yes, and that's why I called the crisis hotline, because I knew something very wrong happened to me," the woman said in response.

Batali issued a statement to CBS that said, "I vehemently deny the allegation that I sexually assaulted this woman."

Another woman interviewed by Cooper said she witnessed Batali reaching under an unconscious woman's dress while at the The Spotted Pig, where Batali was an investor and frequent visitor.

Jamie Seet, a former manager at the trendry restaurant restaurant, said that in 2008, she and three other employees of the restaurant saw Batali grope an unconscious woman in the trendy eatery's private third-floor party room. Seet said that Batali reached his hands up between the legs of the woman while she sat unconscious. Seet said she and other employees intervened and called Batali a cab.

Seet told Cooper she had "no doubt" that Batali had assaulted an unconscious or only partially conscious woman that night.

"Yeah, no doubt at all, and to this day I'm — I feel ashamed that I never called the police," she said.

The "60 Minutes" segment detailed additional allegations of sexual misconduct against Batali, as well as new accusations of sexual assault against Ken Friedman, another prolific restaurateur who is the co-owner of the Spotted Pig.

Last year, the New York Times spoke to numerous women, most of them former employees of Friedman, who said he would frequently made inappropriate comments or grope them and that he fostered an culture of harassment at the restaurant, located at 314 W. 11th St.

Erin Fein, a bartender at The Spotted Pig, told "60 Minutes" that Friedman assaulted her in his car while it was parked outside the restaurant in September 2014. Later that night, she said, he asked for "sexy" photos of her.

"He lunged forward, he grabbed my face, he started kissing me very sort of sloppily," Fein said. "He pulled up my shirt. He put his hands on me. And I felt frozen."

A spokesman for Friedman told "60 Minutes" that Friedman "vehemently denies any non-consensual activity."

Friedman's longtime business partner and the co-owner of the Spotted Big, April Bloomfield, said in a statement to "60 Minutes" that she was in the process of "severing" her partnership with Friedman.

You can watch the full "60 Minutes" segment here.

This post has been updated with additional information.

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