A former contestant on the Bravo competition series “Top Chef” has filed a lawsuit against the landlord of his Washington, D.C., restaurant, claiming that he tried to sabotage his business because it draws an African American crowd. In the suit, Tim Dean, who competed on Season 7 of the reality series, says that he and his partners entered into a lease with Union Place Phase I in 2012, “during an economic down time in the District of Columbia.” The next year, the lawsuit claims, the community began to undergo a gentrification, turning from “a majority minority community to a majority White community.
- 2/3/2016
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
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