Serena Williams accused a Paris resort and restaurant of denying her and her household entry into its venue. The 42-year-old tennis professional tweeted on to The Peninsula Paris on X (previously referred to as Twitter) on Monday, August 5, “Yikes @peninsulaparis I’ve been denied entry to rooftop to eat in an empty restaurant of nicer locations, however by no means with my youngsters. All the time a primary. #Olympic2024.” Now, the French venue has responded to her declare.
“In response to Mrs. Williams’ tweet, for whom we have now the utmost admiration and respect, as we do for all our esteemed visitors, we are able to solely reiterate our deepest apologies for her notion of tonight’s scenario,” The Peninsula responded in a press release, obtained by Us Weekly. “
The resort continued by including that on August 5, its “rooftop bar was certainly absolutely booked, and the one unoccupied tables at the moment belonged to our gourmand restaurant, L’Oiseau Blanc, which was additionally absolutely reserved tonight.”
Pricey Mrs. Williams,
Please settle for our deepest apologies for the frustration you encountered tonight.
Sadly, our rooftop bar was certainly absolutely booked and the one unoccupied tables you noticed belonged to our gourmand restaurant, L’Oiseau Blanc, which was absolutely reserved.— The Peninsula Paris (@peninsulaparis) August 5, 2024
On the finish of the assertion, The Peninsula insisted that Serena “has at all times been, and can at all times be, greater than welcome together with her household at The Peninsula.”
In a follow-up message, The Peninsula responded to Serena’s tweet by doubling down on the truth that their bar was fully booked.
“Pricey Mrs. Williams, Please settle for our deepest apologies for the frustration you encountered tonight [sic],” the venue added.
Serena took a visit to Paris together with her husband, Alexis Ohanian, and their daughters, Olympia and Adira, to cheer on Group USA on the Olympic Video games. Over the previous few weeks, the household have been noticed within the stands at a number of occasions, together with the volleyball males’s quarter-final match, the boys’s singles gold medal match and the ladies’s gymnastics group remaining.
Most just lately, Alexis, 41, confirmed his assist for Group USA by donating hundreds of {dollars} to Veronica Fraley. The 24-year-old discus Olympian revealed that she was struggling to pay her hire, and Taste Flav and Alexis each chimed in to assist her out.
“I compete within the Olympic Video games TOMORROW and might’t even pay my hire,” Veronica tweeted on August 1. “My faculty solely despatched about 75% of my hire whereas they pay soccer gamers (who haven’t gained something) sufficient to purchase new automobiles and homes.”
Simply hours after her put up went viral on-line, Alexis tweeted a screenshot of the quantity he despatched her: $7,760.
