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The Massachusetts chef who ghosted his pregnant spouse and took off to a different state had racked up tens of hundreds of {dollars} in money owed after blowing his cash on Ralph Lauren garments and eating places.
Charles Withers, who turned up in Texas working as private chef for Yellowstone cretor Taylor Sheridan and his spouse Nicole after skipping out on Ashley McGuire, was sued by American Categorical in November for $55,000 he ran up on the bank card for his restaurant in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
Amex filed his bank card statements to the courtroom which confirmed him spending $816 on Ralph Lauren clothes and lots of of {dollars} at a Mexican restaurant in Falmouth.
He additionally blew $143 on tickets to Madame Tussauds in New York and $247 at a surf and skate store.
Massachusetts mother Ashley McGuire, 32, (left) took to Fb’s widespread ‘Are We Courting The Similar Man?’ group claiming her husband Charles Withers (pictured) had picked up and left their household
DailyMail.com can reveal Withers had racked up over $55,000 in debt
Charles, who had beforehand appeared on an episode of Meals Community’s Chopped in 2022, had been a rising star within the culinary world. He’s stated to have deserted his restaurant C Salt Wine Bar and Grille (pictured) in Falmouth, final summer time after ‘driving it into the bottom’
Withers’s different money owed included a $13,167 tax lien from the state of Massachusetts which was filed in January and one other in March for $15,393.
The revelations shed new gentle on Withers’s monetary troubles and why he could have fled his household and moved 1,800 miles away to begin a brand new life.
Livid prospects on the C Salt Wine Bar and Grille, Withers’s restaurant, complained in on-line boards that that they had bought reward playing cards for the institution just for them to change into nugatory when it closed down late final 12 months.
Withers, 29, was pressured into the highlight this week when McGuire, 32, posted about him on the Fb group ‘Are We Courting the Similar Man?’ after being unable to contact him for months.
Inside hours ladies within the Dallas space responded saying that they had seen him there, with some even saying he had matched with them on courting apps.
After the story went viral McGuire advised an area radio station that Withers, who’s British, had lastly gotten in contact and was ready to speak to her.
Earlier this week DailyMail.com reported that Withers deserted C Salt Wine Bar and Grille final summer time after ‘driving it into the bottom’ after which abruptly took off to Dallas, the place he labored for Sheridan, 54.
However the lawsuit filed by Amex exhibits that Withers had been struggling financially for months earlier than that.
The criticism, filed in November final 12 months, states that as of Could 2023 – across the time he disappeared – he owed a complete of $55,463.98 on his enterprise bank card.
Ashley McGuire appeared on a Boston radio station this week after her story went viral and revealed her husband had gotten in contact together with her
Mother-of-two Ashley claimed that he was ‘gone with no hint’ and stated that she now desires to harness the ‘energy’ of social media to trace him and finalize a divorce
‘Single mothers are a particular breed, and I do know loads of you might have gone by way of the identical scenario I’ve,’ she shared
A press release overlaying December 2022 states that Withers spent $816.09 on Ralph Lauren clothes.
He spent lots of of {dollars} at Casa Vallarta, a Mexican restaurant in Falmouth, together with one go to the place he paid $123.98 for a meal.
One other $143.67 went on tickets to Madame Tussauds in New York.
Some entries do seem like reputable restaurant bills reminiscent of $2,088.75 from The Clam Man, an area seafood vendor.
However different spendiing is extra questionable for a enterprise card, like $25 to an organization referred to as ‘Tumble Time Gymnastics’, which seems to be a kids’s gymnasium.
Withers stored in contact with information again within the UK together with his subscription to the Each day Telegraph, a British newspaper, for $12.99.
One other $247.45 went to Board Stiff, a surf and skate store in Falmouth which seems to don’t have any connection to the culinary trade.
The annual membership payment for the Enterprise Platinum card was a stiff $595.
The assertion signifies that Withers had amassed 552,754 reward factors which might have required substantial spending and would have been value $5,000 if he spent it on flights.
Livid prospects of C Salt Bar and Grille vented their rage on its TripAdvisor web page final 12 months when the restaurant closed down.
Withers has surfaced in Texas the place he is working as a star chef for Taylor Sheridan, the co-creator of Yellowstone, DailyMail.com can reveal
Taylor and Nicole Sheridan is not going to touch upon whether or not Withers remains to be working for them and haven’t even confirmed that he ever was. They’re pictured with their son Gus, 13
The present standing of Charles’ restaurant is formally unconfirmed however the eatery is listed as ‘completely closed’ on Google and it has come below heavy fireplace on TripAdvisor
One reviewer named Diane, wrote: ‘My daughter gave us a present card and we booked our desk for August 2. The reservation was confirmed by Open Desk’
One reviewer, named Invoice, stated he was ‘disgusted’ with Withers and slammed him as being a ‘classless proprietor.’
Discussing his reward card, the disgruntled buyer wrote: ‘I went to make use of it this November 2023 solely to search out out the restaurant has closed and stealing my reward card {dollars}! That ought to be unlawful, stealing prospects’ unused {dollars}.’
He stated ‘Charles Withers doesn’t deserve any patronage for his deceit.’
One other, named Diane, wrote: ‘My daughter gave us a present card and we booked our desk for August 2. The reservation was confirmed by OpenTable.
‘We have been actually wanting ahead to the dinner however we arrived there and it was closed. I do not know why we weren’t notified. I had supplied my contact data. Since we have been on trip to Falmouth, there shall be no alternative to go to this restaurant once more.
‘My daughter gave me a beneficiant reward card for my birthday. It was very unlucky and expensive for her and for us.’
McGuire’s hunt for her husband turned him into one of the crucial loathed males within the nation.
Jennifer Shuskha, who posts on TikTok below the identify Jay Megan, and calls herself an ‘web sleuth’ posted on Monday: ‘Would you take a look at that? It is Charles Withers, America’s scumbag’.
The Amex case towards Withers was voluntarily dismissed final month.
The debt assortment company representing Amex didn’t reply to requests for remark.
Withers’s household didn’t reply to requests for remark and numbers for Withers himself didn’t work.
Sheridan’s spokesman wouldn’t say whether or not the chef remains to be working kind – and even affirm that he ever did.
