Grand Cent. pizza gal in grope suit
SHE WANTS a slice of justice.
A sacked server sued celebrity criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos and Food Network star Donatella Arpaia on Thursday, alleging they were liable as owners of the pizza bar in Grand Central Terminal where she was groped.
Carmela Harding, 36, said in papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court that she was wrongly fired from Prova Pizzabar in August after complaining to management about the harassment of a colleague, Kwame Murdock, 30.
An attorney for the pizza bar wrote in a letter included in the lawsuit that Harding was fired for being chronically late and that she did not make any complaint about the groping.
Kwame “vehemently” denied he groped her.
Harding seeks damages to be determined at trial.