Celeb chef Madison Cowan is in a actual pickle with his Brooklyn landlord.
The British-born former champ of the Food items Network’s “Chopped” and “Iron Chef” contests owes 28 months in again hire to the tune of $73,700 on a 1-bed room Boerum Hill condominium he and his family members have occupied given that October 2019, his landlord Gus Sheha promises.
Sheha explained to The Put up Cowan – whose website notes he’s catered posh events for former President Invoice Clinton, actress Scarlett Johansson and other A-listers — has not compensated a cent of his hire considering the fact that January 2020. The every month rent ranged from $2,700 to $2,750 about the length of his now-expired two-yr lease.
Cowan took benefit of a pandemic-driven, condition moratorium on evictions that stretched from March 2020 as a result of Jan. 15, Sheha suggests, insisting his tenant has the implies to shell out his payments and is making an attempt to “beat the program.”
“He leaves his property wearing a different fur each and every working day,” mentioned Sheha. “How broke can he be? If there was no COVID-19, I would have taken him to courtroom two years in the past to get him evicted.”
When the eviction moratorium was lifted in January, Sheha’s lawyer sent Cowan and his household a “90-working day notice” informing them they must be out May perhaps 1 or the landlord would start off eviction proceedings.
Sheha claimed Cowan has but to nevertheless to answer. He additional that the housing courtroom method is so backlogged that he expects to wait at minimum one more yr ahead of the case is listened to although Cowan carries on to reside in Sheha’s State Road developing hire-cost-free.
Cowan did not return messages.
Nevertheless, Sheha shared an Aug. 31 email between the two in which Cowan stated the pandemic “negatively affect[ed]” his “income and bottom line.”
He also claimed he’s “willing to do [his] part” to enable Sheha get his hire paid out by means of a point out rental aid program, but Sheha questioned why Cowan waited right until very last June to utilize.
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