Batali found not guilty in sexual misconduct case

Mario Batali was acquitted Tuesday of allegedly groping a fan at a Boston bar in 2017. The celebrity chef, 61, was found not guilty of indecent assault and battery in a trial that lasted less than two days during which he did not testify. His accuser, 32-year-old Natali Tene, testified that she asked Batali for a selfie at Towne Stove and Spirits in March 2017, only to be assaulted while she posed smiling. “His right hand was all over my breast. All over my rear end . ... Squeezing in between my legs. Squeezing me in my vagina to pull me closer,” Tene testified Monday.