Mario Batali Gives Up NYC Eateries: Report

GREENWICH VILLAGE — Celebrity chef Mario Batali severed ties with his NYC restaurants after sexual harassment and assault allegations, the New York Times reported.

The Times reported that Batali and the Bastianich family of restaurateurs ended their two-decades-long partnership more than a year after women first began accusing Batali of sexual misconduct.

The chef "will no longer profit from the restaurants in any way, shape or form," Tanya Bastianich Manuali told the Times. Bastianich Manuali will head operations for a new company, which will be named to replace the Batali & Bastianich Hospitality Group, according to the Times.

Batali said in a statement to the Times, "I have reached an agreement with Joe and no longer have any stake in the restaurants we built together. I wish him the best of luck in the future."

Last May, a woman told Anderson Cooper on "60 Minutes" she was drugged and assaulted at The Spotted Pig, where, per the Times, Batali was an investor and a regular customer.

The woman worked at Batali's West Village eatery, Babbo, in 2005, and he had invited her to a party at The Spotted Pig.

In December 2017, the chef was fired from 'The Chew' after four women accused him of inappropriate touching in an Eater report.