There’s more trouble on the menu for the Ciprianis – the restaurant clan has been served a sexual-harassment lawsuit from a waitress.
In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Lastenia Torres charges she’s been subjected to a “hostile work environment” during her seven years at the Sherry Netherland Cipriani because she’s a Hispanic woman.
The “offensive and intentionally abusive conduct” by her male co-workers included calling her and other female staffers “stupid,” the suit claims. She says she was also told women “are only good for bed.”
Torres said she complained, but her bosses, including dad Arrigo and son Giuseppe Cipriani, did nothing.
The Ciprianis and three corporations of their U.S. restaurant group pleaded guilty in August to cheating the city and state out of millions of dollars in taxes.
A spokesman for the Ciprianis could not be reached last night.