Drake and a night of violence: How one LA nightclub business allows its employees to be vulnerable to mistreatment by celebrities

• In March 2018, a server at Los Angeles celebrity hotspot Delilah was brutally beaten in an assault caught on the restaurant's surveillance cameras.
• The server, Bennett Sipes, sued the restaurant, Drake, Cleveland Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., and model Younes Bendjima over the incident.
• Sipes claims that Drake ordered the beating after the rapper made a "throat slash" gesture to his entourage.
• Insider started digging into Drake and his relationship with Delilah's parent company, The H.Wood Group, which owns more than a dozen clubs, restaurants, and bars in LA.
• We discovered a close relationship between Drake and H.Wood's owners, who have put their employees at risk to curry favor with their celebrity clientele.
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In the early hours of March 24, 2018, last call had come and gone, but the party was still going strong at the West Hollywood hotspot Delilah. The opulent 1920s-themed restaurant would make Jay Gatsby feel at home with its many mirrors, palms, and Art Deco chandeliers. Celebrities regularly hold court in the pastel pink and green velvet booths, where they're served plates of lobster gnocchi and flutes of Moët by attractive young men in white tuxedos and women in black pencil skirts. On some nights, burlesque dancers entertain patrons in lingerie, a callback to the speakeasies from which Delilah takes its inspiration.

It wasn't until 12:52 a.m. that the biggest star showed up — Drake. The rapper came in through the back entrance, wearing a green-and-black track suit, according to video from TMZ. Drinking with him that night at the bar was NFL player Odell Beckham Jr. Fans of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" might also have recognized Younes Bendjima, the Algerian model who at the time was dating Kourtney Kardashian.

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