Allegedly Mario Batali Had A ‘Rape Room’

Mario Batali has been accused of sexual assault by multiple women, and the latest claims that he drugged and raped her in 2005 — and she woke up on the third floor of the West Villages’s The Spotted Pig surrounded by broken bottles with scratches on her legs and semen on her skirt.

The woman worked at Mario’s restaurant Babbo in the village and she told 60 Minutes in an interview that she was sitting with Maria until, “It gets completely foggy for me.”

She continued, “And this is — part of the messy, scary part for me, there is a part where it — it all disappears. I remember a moment where I was on his lap, kissing him. Like, he was kissing me. And then I remember throwing up — in a toilet. And that is all.”

She remembered waking up at dawn on the restaurant’s third floor, which Batali and owner Ken Friedman nicknamed the “rape room” where anything-goes sexual antics and drug use were commonplace, Page Six reports. “I woke up by myself on the floor, I don’t know where I am, of an empty room, wooden floor. I see broken bottles. 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. ‘“

Batali “vehemently” denied the woman’s allegations in a statement to CBS.