Rita Ora’s team are alleged to have offered Notting Hill’s Casa Cruz restaurant £5,000 in order to ‘facilitate’ the singer’s lockdown breaching 30th birthday party in November.
A hearing took place on Thursday with the Kensington and Chelsea council’s licensing sub-committee debating whether the restaurant’s license should be revoked for allowing the party to go ahead despite lockdown rules at the time banning indoor meetings.
Scottie Bhattarai, a former manager at Casa Cruz, who has since been sacked by the restaurant claimed at the hearing that Ora’s representatives had offered them £5000 to ‘facilitate the event’ while most of the staff were on furlough.
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