The chef co-owners of Hollywood hotspot Horses are escalating their battle for control of the restaurant, with Will Aghajanian taking his wife Elizabeth Johnson to court.
Aghajanian alleges in a complaint filed on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court that Johnson is trying to oust him from their business after she cut him out of a Chinese restaurant they planned to open behind Horses, in part, by lying about animal abuse and assault allegations.
The suit was filed after a Los Angeles Superior Court judge in May extended Johnson’s temporary restraining order against Aghajanian until June. He filed in January to divorce her, denying the allegations and saying he’s the victim of Johnson’s “long-term abuse that has occurred through our relationship.”
In the fall of 2022, around the time Johnson was initially granted a restraining order against Aghajanian, the complaint claims she started to undermine his work and authority to assume full control of the restaurant and block him from obtaining his management fees. The suit details a dysfunctional environment at Horses.
“Defendant personally told employees of Horses a number of things which she knew were not true, including that Plaintiff did not like the staff of Horses and many other false statements designed to turn the staff of Horses against Plaintiff,” reads the filing. “Defendant made these statements in order to obtain a tactical advantage in her attempts to have Plaintiff’s Management Fee paid to Defendant.”
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