Top Chef Josie Gets Harassed And Beaten In Long Island
Miami native Josie Smith-Malave, from last season's Top Chef, was beaten and harassed outside of a Long Island bar over the Labor Day weekend. The news is just coming out now, because her lawyer wants the incident investigated as a hate crime.
[Attorney Yetta Kurland] said the trouble started when the women went to Partners bar in Sea Cliff over the Labor Day weekend for a drink and began dancing together. Smith-Malave's sister is straight.Bar employees escorted the women out a side door after other patrons began making nasty remarks and the mood started getting ugly, Kurland said.
Kurland said as many as 10 "young adults" followed the women out, circled them, screamed anti-gay slurs, spit on them and then punched and kicked them. A camera belonging to one of them was stolen, she said. Nassau police said they were investigating, but had made no arrests.
Yikes! How anyone could beat up on Josie is beyond us. Sure, she's loud, but she was the friendliest and nicest of the cast members last season. Here's hoping those bruises have healed now and that the cops start making some arrests soon.
'Top Chef' contestant in bias attack [New York Daily News]
