Two fisted kitchen hellion GORDON RAMSAY rips the lid off steaming pot of duplicity!
TV chef Ramsay has gone after his wife’s family with the lawsuit from hell – a messy $2.3 million claim that appears to have exposed a shocking double life.
In sensational court papers filed in Britain, Ramsay – backed by his wife Tana – charges that his father-in-law Chris Hutcheson and other in-laws conspired to rip him off for millions.
He claims the fortune was spent supporting Hutcheson’s alleged secret lifestyle that reportedly includes a mistress, a former mistress, two sons, plus lavish vacations and homes.
The lawsuit tosses into the frying pan Hutcheson and his wife Greta, Ramsay’s sister-in-law Orlanda Butland, her brother Adam and his wife Adelaide – a clean sweep of Tana’s family.
“Clearly, this whole episode has been hugely distressing for Gordon and Tana,” said a rep. “All they want to do is move on, but given the enormity of what has been uncovered they have no option but to let the legal process take its course.”
Furious, Tana’s family members are serving up counterclaims that they were unfairly dismissed from Ramsay’s company.
After 12 years of employment, Hutcheson was canned from Gordon Ramsay Holdings, which owns the popular U.S. and British TV shows, restaurants and other properties.
Ramsay, 44, charges that Hutcheson regularly wrote $32,000 checks to himself from company accounts, stashed $1.4 million in French bank accounts and paid his alleged mistress more than $8,000 per month for a do-nothing job.
As the icing on the cake, Ramsay says Hutcheson installed a $35,000 kitchen in a vacation home, billed to the company, took out hidden salary advances and had himself improperly listed as the sole owner of a Ramsay restaurant.
The lawsuit further claims that Hutcheson and other family members mounted a spying operation – hiring a computer expert to hack into Ramsay’s personal e-mails and confidential company information.
Ramsay says he used nearly a whopping $8 million of his own money to save the flagging corporation while his in-laws feasted on the company funds
