June 29, 2023, published at 7:30 PM ET
Real Housewives of Atlanta star Cynthia Bailey‘s ex-husband Peter Thomas was hit with a lawsuit accusing him of refusing to pay rent for his planned restaurant, RadarOnline.com has learned.
According to court documents obtained by RadarOnline.com, in January a company called DTS DT Retail sued Peter, his restaurant Bar One Miami Beach and his separate company 1 Society.
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Peter has been running the successful Bar One Miami Beach since 2019. In 2022, Peter announced he would be opening a new “luxury supper club” called 1 Society and planned to spend $3 million on the project.
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The company set up for 1 Society dissolved and the restaurant never opened.
In the lawsuit, DTS DT Retail said it owned and leased real estate at Miami Central Station.
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In February 2022, DTS leased a building to Thomas voor 1 Maatschappij. The agreement would last for 120 months.
In the lawsuit, DTS accused Thomas of violating the lease and failing to pay rent as of October 2022. At the time the lawsuit was filed, DTS said the business owner owed $61,000 in back rent.
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Further, DTS said Thomas violated other provisions of the deal by failing to submit tenant plans within 30 days of lease execution.
The company said Thomas refused to surrender the property despite being notified of the breaches.
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The DTS lawsuit demanded that Thomas vacate the premises and pay the unpaid rent. Thomas and Bar One were sued because they were listed as guarantors on the lease.
In response, Thomas and Bar One denied all allegations of wrongdoing. They argued that DTS first breached the deal by not providing “sufficient access to the property”. He said DTS’s actions “excused its obligations under the lease until the breach was remedied.
DTS fired back, claiming that while Thomas and Bar One responded to the lawsuit, 1 Society did not file a response.
A few weeks later, the judge presiding over the case ruled against 1 Society and ordered the property returned to DTS.
The judge closed the whole case.
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Thomas and Bailey were married for seven years before divorcing in 2017.