For Immediate Release (Los Angeles, CA) - On November 5th, 2008 Coly Den Haan and Rachel Thomas, owners of the The Must, entered into an operating/lease agreement with Sid Carter and Julie Rico, owners of Weeneez, LLC. This agreement is valid until January, 2012 with an option to extend for 5 years thereafter. The Must has not breached the contract in any way. Due to Weeneez' numerous breaches of the agreement, The Must filed for arbitration March 11, 2010. No representative of The Must received any prior notice that anything was going to happen. It paid its rent as usual on June 30. It locked its doors as usual at 2:00 a.m. on July 3rd. The move-out occurred July 3rd at approximately 2:45am. Julie Rico, Sid Carter and the supposed, "new owner", David Holtzman, hired movers to strip The Must of everything including furniture, wine, food, computers and documents. The owners, Den Haan and Thomas were notified by their restaurant manager, Casey Irvine, the next morning that The Must had been stripped of everything. Den Haan and Thomas were not notified of the apparent changes in ownership of Weeneez LLC. The Must is currently seeking relief within the California judicial system. Obviously this heinous act, which was committed during one of the largest holiday weekends of the year leaves The Must with no choice but to wait until the holiday is over in order to remedy this unfortunate situation.
The Must is Coly, Rachel, Casey, and Eric, our employees and our community. We are not going anywhere, we will always be downtown. This IS our home." Thank you for your continued support.
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