Celebrity restaurant owners - a list by ddbraves

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Britney Spears

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Like her marriages, Britney Spears' brief venture into restaurant ownership was marked for death. The night she opened NYLA in June 2002, hostile bouncers kept would-be VIPs waiting outside in a driving rainstorm; inside, her partner Bobby Ochs was served with a lawsuit stemming from the failure of his last restaurant, Marla Maples' Peaches. Less than six months later, Ochs was gone and NYLA had its own lawsuits from unpaid suppliers.

Updated Mar 6, 2007

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Tony Hawk

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The "Dogtown and Z-Boys" hero invested in Del Mar, CA restaurant Market. It's gotten great reviews and why not -- it stole key members of Bradley Ogden's staff from Arterra.

Updated Mar 3, 2007

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Jennifer Lopez

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Jennifer Lopez was an investor in the late La Boca del Conga (along with Jimmy Smits and Sheila E.), which tried to add Nuevo Latino to the Conga Room. Both went down in flames and today it's a sports bar. However, J. Lo still owns Cuban eatery Madre's in Pasadena -- now approaching its fifth anniversary.

Updated Mar 3, 2007

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WESLEY SNIPES

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Before Wesley Snipes aligned himself with tax-dodging and black nationalist cults, he dished out Orange Chicken and Spring Rolls at his now-defunct West Hollywood restaurant, China One.

Updated Mar 3, 2007

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Diego Luna

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Diego Luna is an owner of Mexico's City's La Bipolar. The name might refer to the menu -- it ranges from ribeye tacos to tofu burritos -- but last year co-owner Carlos Meza Yazpik told style.com, "bipolarity is really common in Mexico now for some reason." Oh.

Updated Mar 3, 2007

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Phil Rosenthal

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Funny, he doesn't look like a restaurant mogul. "Everybody Loves Raymond" creator Phil Rosenthal has succeeded where Denzel Washington failed, consistently investing in winning restaurants. So far, he's got Jar, AOC, Hungry Cat and Mozza; soon to come are Osteria Mozza and a Hungry Cat outpost in Santa Barbara.

Updated Mar 7, 2007

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That 70s Show

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No, no, no. First you get the hit sitcom, then waste the money on a restaurant with your friends. Instead, Ashton Kutcher, Wilmer Valderrama, Danny Masterson and Laura Prepon (among others) invested in the successful Dolce Group, which owns Geisha House, Les Deux, Dolce and the upcoming Ketchup (among others).

Updated Mar 6, 2007

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Justin Timberlake

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Remember Chi? In the Hyatt West Hollywood? Yeah, we don't, either. There's only so much room in this town for Asian-fusion restaurant-clubs with indoor-outdoor waterfalls.

Updated Mar 5, 2007

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Jeri Ryan

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Ryan and her husband, Christopher Eme, own Ortolan, a restaurant named for a small bird that becomes illegal if you cook and eat it whole. It's not on the menu, although you could argue there's a Star Trek influence in Eme's fondness for serving soup in test tubes.

Updated Mar 6, 2007

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Robert De Niro

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He's the poster boy for successful restaurant investments: TriBeCa Grill in New York, Ago in L.A., Rubicon in San Francisco, Nobu everywhere. (We'll overlook the unfortunate flirtation with hummus and belly dancing that was Layla.) The true measure of his commitment to the restaurant business? In January, the state of New York was forced to remind him that he owed Nobu workers more than $300,000 in overtime.

Updated Mar 6, 2007

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