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Celebrity chef Madison Cowan has relied on soft eviction laws to avoid more than $145,000 in rent
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The British-born former champ of the Food Network’s “Chopped” and “Iron Chef” owes 53 months in back
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NYC Marshal Robert Renzulli (front) reads legal notice Wednesday on

door of celebrity chef Madison Cowan’s apartment. Renzulli arrived
planning to evict Cowan (back) but learned the chef had scheduled an
appeal hearing.

never seen anything more absurd in my life,” fumed Sheha. “This is why people are getting out
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Cowan – whose website notes he’s catered posh events for former President Clinton, actress Scarlett Bill
Johansson and other A-listers — initially took advantage of a pandemic-driven, state moratorium on
evictions from March 2020 through mid-January 2022.

Since then, judges have ordered Cowan’s eviction on five separate occasions — but he’s dodged each
time by running to court and filing new appeals.

Cowan cooking at the 2012 No Kitchen Required cooking competition in NYC.

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Sheha and his brother John, who co-owns the three-story building, learned about the latest appeal
Wednesday when, accompanied by city Marshal Robert Renzulli, they arrived to evict Cowan.
Cowan boasted been getting advice on how to avoid eviction from state Attorney General Letitia
he’s
James and then claimed to make a call to the AG’s office while standing in front of them, recalled Sheha.
James’ office said it had no knowledge of being contacted by Cowan. Renzulli did not return messages.

Cowan, his wife and daugher have lived in the State Street building since October 2019.
Helayne Seidman

Cowan is scheduled to appear in Brooklyn Housing Court Wednesday on the latest eviction bid.

He didn’t return phone messages and declined to open the door when The Post knocked Friday.
An hour two police officers responded to a 911 call for a “crime in progress” in the building but
later,
determined no crime occurred, said an NYPD spokesperson. It’s unclear who made the call.

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Diane
1 hour ago
"Icheck boxes, so I can do as I please."
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EFFECTIVE PRESENTER
8 minutes ago
NOT exactly.

Landlords do have some protections against deadbeat tenants they do check credit,
records, etc.

Most landlords we know use real estate agents to find quality tenants the agent screens
he applicant for the landlord well worth the cost usually a month's rent the agent

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RSticks
1 hour ago
Would it surprise anyone if AG James was helping him? No and that says a lot about the AG.
Reply 79 Share
john russo
57 minutes ago
Another usual suspect, it's in their DNA.......This is just the beginning vote MAGA
Reply 24 Share
INNS BRUCK
1 hour ago
they will destroy America with the newcomers too

Reply 28 Share
Commander Riker
50 minutes ago
her time is coming, so is little Fanis down in Georgia
Reply 8 Share
Stinky Pizzle
42 minutes ago
With food involved, no doubt she'd help him out, and Bragg would probably volunteer to

Reply 8 Share
William Johne
43 minutes ago
Sounds EXACTLY like a Trump move! Don’t pay your creditors!
Reply 3 Share
James Taggart
14 minutes ago
All building contractors fail to pay vendors, the vendor did not do as contracted.
if

If you owned a business, you’d know this. Now see someone about your TDS, this
had nothing to do with Trump.
Reply 6 Share
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Ray Brannen
1 hour ago
Why is it always the same perpetrators?
Reply 74 Share
Catdompa
1 hour ago
Is that Tyrell Owens?
Reply 9 Share
Big Steve
1 hour ago
Welcome to the result of CRT.
Reply 12 Share
RationalMan
1 hour ago
It is their stone age culture...which never improve.

Reply 38 Share
Not Financial Advice
1hour ago
Mass killing on an industrial level being carried out by who in 2024?!
Reply 1 Share

EL Capitan
58 minutes ago
That are squatting or not paying rent?
How many NAPWs are in the NYP articles daily from squatting or refusing to pay rent?
Why is it always the same NAPWs who don't think before posting?
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prinkfloyd
14 minutes ago
Don't you mean "NAPAs"
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Biden's Swiss Cheese Brain

1 hour ago
maybe the landlord and a bunch of people can hire him for a catering gig and not pay at the end
Reply 29 Share

Big Steve
1 hour ago
It’s stories like this is when I miss the mafia. A few crisp $100 bills and Tony would take care of
situation.
Reply 32 Share

Sam Dracula
1 hour ago
NYC makes it so easy for this to happen, they encourage it. Don't doubt that he's got Tish's
# & that he calls her all the time.
Reply 17 Share

INNS BRUCK
1 hour ago
Nothing changes with the culture.
They can't hang onto a penny.
Ever wonder why the "Continent" is perpetual poverty???

Reply 19 Share
Corn Pop
1 hour ago
Low IQ. "I got me $100. I will buy $200 sneaker."
Reply 11 Share
Florida Sun
5 minutes ago
I can afford $100 a week, not $400 a month mentality.
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EL Capitan
57 minutes ago
How does gold plated high tops with the American flag sound? Only $399
Reply Share

EL Capitan
55 minutes ago
Never seen a person cry so much about a country they aren't from. Stay in Europe

Reply 1 Share

Flim Flam
1 hour ago
No shame, no class, no repercussions
Reply 39 Share

Hunters Gun
1 hour ago
He’s DEI’er he knows every scam
a in the book, it’s how they’re raised.
Reply 31 Share

booradley202
1 hour ago
Give them an inch........
Reply 32 Share

Longshanks
1 hour ago
“Celebrity” never head of the guy
Reply 16 Share
Cyberdaactyl
1 hour ago
He's the 'Low-Life Chef' on the 'Food Channel'.
Reply 11 Share

Jimmy Magoo
1 hour ago
What a hero. do these people ever do anything not related to criminal activity. So sad
Reply 56 Share
RationalMan
1 hour ago
Almost never. It is their culture. Just look at the continent from where they came. The
continent mired in the stone age. Why? The weather?
Reply 24 Share
EFFECTIVE PRESENTER
1 hour ago
This guy is a sophisticated scam artist a criminal NOT a brutha from the

This guy is successfully playing the system, this landlord will NEVER see the rent
him.

We wonder what the deadbeat tenant has done with his $140K windfall.?

Has he saved the downpayment for a house?

Has he paid debts?

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EatFastEat Repeat
1 hour ago
A celebrity chef,wait... a thief. Yeah. a thief for not paying rent.
Reply 17 Share

MuddBlower
1 hour ago
Return the Watermelon to sender
Reply 12 Share
Concerned Citizen
1 hour ago
Send him back to the UK
Reply 3 Share

Roberta Rosinski
1 hour ago
This is now the second black chef Food Network decided to promote who’s run afoul of the law.

Reply 19 Share

Sane and Cogent

1 hour ago
Squatter!
Reply 18 Share

DoubleU undefined
30 minutes ago
That's unusual. They're known for paying their bills on time.
Reply 4 Share

RationalMan
1 hour ago
DEI in action. "The" minority in action. Fascist NY state in action.
Reply 20 Share
EL Capitan
52 minutes ago
How does DEI have anything to do with this guy not paying his rent? Oh he rents the
ome from KJP? Kamala? Disney? Boeing? Who else? Hollywood? Any other

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Usaright
1 hour ago
have fun this will come to an end
Reply 5 Share
EFFECTIVE PRESENTER
1 hour ago
NOT so fast it will. This criminal claim he had Leticia James on his side.
Reply 3 Share

Paul B
54 minutes ago
His kind have been enabled their whole lives and are used to getting stuff for the free
Reply 6 Share
Pow Pow Got Your Six
49 minutes ago
With the filth in the WH, that is in hypersonic mode now.
Reply 3 Share

Ruben Kincaid
1 hour ago
How did this guy pass a background check for the lease? Probably not the first time this
squatter has done this.
Reply 5 Share
tippytoes
54 minutes ago
Don't you know it's considered racist and illegal to run background checks? Since the
steemed DeBlasio administration, NYC has been expunging criminal records to protect
criminals from scrutiny.
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EFFECTIVE PRESENTER
29 minutes ago
DeBlasio was blowing smoke that was just a media public relations stunt.
Landlords still check credit, still check criminal records, etc.

Landlords want incomes of 3 times the annual rent or white parents to serve as
the lease.
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Ruben Kincaid
11 minutes ago
Getting a lease in NYC requires a background check that includes credit, criminal
eviction history.
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SlickWillies
32 minutes ago
I knew before I knew. They cannot "legally" function in Western Civilization.
Reply 4 Share

billy g
1 hour ago
justanother worthless one wanting a free ride, that tells you he's a terrible cook
Reply 14 Share

Jay Ceen
1 hour ago
That's the pot calling the kettle black
Reply 6 Share

Jackhammer
40 minutes ago
It's the Wakandan way
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Byrdmania
50 minutes ago
Same race, different face.
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Longface
15 minutes ago
You don't have to be a celebrity to drag out these evictions. A normal eviction is taking a
inimal of 2 plus years in the Bronx even longer. Don't believe me go look it up. They get free
funded lawyers, and if they can not get them the judges keep giving adjournments
they can. Been ...

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ZaSu Pitts
10 minutes ago
His celebrity status should be used to shame him, his employers, and anyone living with him.
Let everyone even tangentially know he is a deadbeat and break him down into a Denny's job.
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Kookie Monster
50 minutes ago
Doesn’t anyone ever consider the landlord’s financial burden? Come on, people! Do better.
yourself through this life!
Reply 1 Share
EFFECTIVE PRESENTER
45 minutes ago
We know landlords who have lost their properties due to criminals like this guy that
every day.

Banks want mortgage payments, taxes, insurance, etc.

A perfect storm can rise, and the landlord can lose their property.
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Pow Pow Got Your Six
45 minutes ago
Their kind don't care... "They" deserve it, remember?
Reply 3 Share

newport1
12 minutes ago
In my Brooklyn neighborhood, we settled issues like this with a wise guy and a bat.
Reply 2 Share
Love It Or Leave It Hippies
6 minutes ago
It’s called a “‘’tude adjuster” Long Live the Mob
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ZL
58 minutes ago
The actions of a grifter and a parasite.
Reply 6 Share

Dan Tanna
1 hour ago
Not much of a celebrity if he can’t pay his rent. Loser comes to mind
Reply 4 Share
EFFECTIVE PRESENTER
1 hour ago
Loser, criminal, scam-artist, squatter, etc.

We know landlords who have lost their property due to tenants, courts like this.

Landlords must be VERY careful who they take as a tenant and still tenants get sick, lose
go to jail, etc.

It is NOT easy to be a landlord, this landlord is out $140K PLUS legal fees, etc.
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Corn Pop
1 hour ago
He can. He just doesn't want to.
Reply 2 Share

William Brand
1 hour ago
This is insane
Reply 5 Share
EFFECTIVE PRESENTER
1 hour ago
This happens often Housing Court.
in
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Stinky Pizzle
1 hour ago
After reading this how could anyone ever hire this lowlife? You'd have to be crazy to eat
made by someone of such low character.
Reply 4 Share
EFFECTIVE PRESENTER
1 hour ago
This guy would NEVER work for us.

If we landed at a venue of any kind where he was Celebrity/Executive Chef we would

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M F
51 minutes ago
And who is exactly this “we” and “us” that you’re mentioning? Would this be your
friends?
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Pow Pow Got Your Six
42 minutes ago
Do you really expect them to mention their company, if true?...lol..
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Corn Pop
1 hour ago
He is a showbiz clown. They love blacks. The cooking shows will hire him for DEI and his
laugh.
Reply 3 Share
EFFECTIVE PRESENTER
50 minutes ago
Ewic, Mayor Ewic Adams is a show-biz clown.

"Me b Ewic Mayor Ewic Adams da sanctuary, city be dhat us New York City. "

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EFFECTIVE PRESENTER
53 minutes ago
But he is from England this thug should know better he is Meghan Markles cousin
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RetiredTNLEO
6minutes ago
The US is rapidly turning into a nation with two races – – One race pays their way and helps
ay the way for countless others thru taxes.. A second race doesn’t pay their way and takes
from government which has confiscated money from wages earners. I submit the above
as Exhibit A proving my post.
Reply 1 Share
EFFECTIVE PRESENTER
4minutes ago
One race pays the other race does NOT pay is nothing new in America.
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Slippery Pete
4 minutes ago
I think this would be a wonderful opportunity to pause for a moment and give thanks for the
reat contributions of the black community to our society. Their peaceful and generous nature
them ideal neighbors, lending testimony to their exceptional family values and
skills unrivaled ...
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Claytonius Bigsby
27 minutes ago
Cowan boasted he’s been getting advice on how to avoid eviction from state Attorney General
etitia James and then claimed to make a call to the AG’s office while standing in front of
recalled Sheha.
Brilliant, regressive, liberal NYC DemocRat voters sure know how to elect AGs that stand with
riminals. Now I understand why they are so full of themselves when they look down on
who lives outside their 3rd world, yo!
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Corn Pop
1 hour ago
Check his IG. It's filled with virtue signal posts. Those who do this the most are the biggest

Reply 3 Share

You Don't See It Coming

30 minutes ago
This is shocking, a black person behind on their bills.
Reply 5 Share

Tony Baldelli
1 hour ago
Celebrity chef? Who he be?
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Mibalz Ishari
1 hour ago
No accountability in NYC
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Pow Pow Got Your Six

47 minutes ago
"Thanks Dad"!!! You are my role model for life, that's how you do it my children. Culture is

Reply 3 Share

Socalav8tor
7 minutes ago
"Protective Pigmentation" strikes again
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Tfw21
1 hour ago
Diversity makes NYC great
Reply 2 Share

Maluk Popeye
29 minutes ago
Just part of the feral culture.
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Jerry Walker
1 hour ago
Utterly criminal
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FML
1 hour ago
Never do any kind of business with them
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KenWest
10 minutes ago
When you go to housing court in Bklyn you can plainly see why you can't evict a person of

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Tippu Tip
41 minutes ago
Obama needs a chef, his last one tragically and mysteriously drowned on the mansion grounds.
Reply 2 Share

Red Pineapple
35 minutes ago
Food Network should pay his bills. They're big and proud libs.
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Wick John
1 hour ago
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Benny
37 minutes ago
Phoning in a false report to the NYPD?
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Mike Safe
8 minutes ago
Cowan boasted been getting advice on how to avoid eviction from state Attorney General
he’s
etitia James and then claimed to make a call to the AG’s office while standing in front of them,
Sheha. I BELEIVE IT !! The Cowans must be white !!!
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Tippu Tip
44 minutes ago
For the landlord, at best, they will vacate without trashing the place and paying nothing.
who in their right mind would rent to this fraudster?
I wonder how other deadbeats find housing after pulling the same scam.

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Facts Matter
5 minutes ago
There should be an investigation into his claim NY AG James is assisting this criminal. She
be suspended from being AG for the duration of the investigation
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Fred C Smith
24 minutes ago
DEI man intimidating the law because he's black.
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Jenny Layton
3 minutes ago
His career just ended. He’ll still be living in a one -bedroom in a zip code faraway
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Patricia Morrow
13 minutes ago
They should be able to file ONE appeal.
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SniffMyNeck
1 hour ago
Uhhh ... *145k over 53 months is just $2700/no...!?!*

Where can you find a studio, much less retail space, for $3k....???

Either an egregious typo or massive amounts of info missing here....

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AmericanCitizen
4 minutes ago
Of course his advisor is Letitia James. And look how much better our NYC and NY State are for
of effort she gives to our laws—unless your name is Trump!
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James Taggart
16 minutes ago
If I owned the building, I would turn off water and electric.
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jimmy fresh
12 minutes ago
landlord just need to pay the right people to deal with him there are more ways to remove this

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A patriot!
15 minutes ago
I heard Sam the cook made probation, now the county workhouse needs a new cook
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Nutsnbolts
19 minutes ago
Unreal…Food Network should be so proud.
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Loco4DaCoco
1 hour ago
Listen, we are all together in this and still reeling from Covid not to mention all of the systemic
ppression this young Black man has had to endure to become a Black entrepreneur in
We should all contribute to His welfare and need to ask ourselves as a society what
can do to elevate, ...

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Worthington
7 minutes ago
"Madison, Mike Wallace is here ".

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Jeff Smith
7 minutes ago
Ridiculous laws in NY. So glad I moved out of that state! I won’t be back!
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Jazz Man
17 minutes ago
And here come the Ray cyst termites crawling out of the woodwork.
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JoJo Gee
3 minutes ago
Totally nuts how people can scam the system to a tune of not paying a dime. It's shameful &
up.
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Snik Hip
5 minutes ago
You have to answer to Jesus one day buddy good luck with your “defense”.
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Florida Sun
7 minutes ago
His entire sham is a crime in progress.
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Roadrunner
36 minutes ago
Another dem DEI grifter
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Powerplay
hour ago
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Slippery Pete
8 minutes ago
Thief. Looting the stores or looting the landlord it's always the same crowd.

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Metzg2538
4 minutes ago
He doned be a Proud Black Man and doned did notting rong!

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K-man
6 minutes ago
This gentleman needs a good 4channing..
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mr.easygoing
19 minutes ago
Who has privileges? Oh that's right, the same group that's causing all the crime. White

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Omen55
35 minutes ago
Only fools build or buy apartments in NYC.
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Humpty D
14 minutes ago
Parasite!
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