ARIANA Madix and Katie Maloney’s merchandise sales for their sandwich shop have been revealed in their legal battle with their ex-chef.
Ariana, 39, Katie, 37, and Chef Penny Davidi filed trademarks for Something About Her LLC, and now, the Vanderpump Rules stars are opposing Penny’s filing — nearly a year after they allegedly gave her permission to file the trademark in the first place.
According to court documents exclusively obtained by The U.S. Sun, Ariana and Katie will be stuck in the case for another nearly two years.
They have until April 2025 to submit discovery for their trademark dispute against Chef Penny Davidi.
Following this, they have until next year to submit pretrial disclosures, rebuttal disclosures, and other briefs.
Per the docs, Ariana and Katie’s reply brief deadline is set for January 2026, and a request for an oral hearing, if they decide to take that route, is due by February 2026.
The Bravolebrities filed an opposition to Penny’s trademark on June 25, filed through her business Put A Fork In It LLC, and also filed an application for their own trademark on July 9.
In Something About Her LLC’s opposition, filed July 26, Ariana and Katie blast Chef Penny — after she previously told The U.S. Sun she had “proof” that the ladies gave her permission — claimed her application, filed in August 2023, was “filed without seeking the approval of SAHR (Something About Her) or its managers and members for the filing of the Application as submitted to USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office).
They then claim, per the docs obtained by The U.S. Sun, that they are “not connected to Opposer (Put A Fork In It LLC) in any way. Applicant and Opposer are wholly separate business entities with no members, managers, or officers in common.”
Furthermore, they insist that an issuance of a registration for Penny’s Something About Her trademark will “substantially damage Opposer’s investment and goodwill in the Something About Her Mark.”
They also claim Penny has "committed fraud."
"As a result of Applicant’s willful and materially false statements made in connection with the Application, including in a sworn Declaration, Applicant has committed fraud against the USPTO, which invalidates the Application," the docs state.
Ariana and Katie leave out any mention of Chef Penny ever being a “partner” in their business and instead boast about how their sandwich shop, which is located in West Hollywood, has gained national recognition and how the stars, themselves, are more famous than Chef Penny “with 2.3 million and 1.7 million followers on Instagram, respectively.”
The business owners claim, “Since March 2023, products bearing and sold under the Something About Her mark have generated sales in excess of $1.8 million.”
Prior to opening, the shop’s website, which “receives an average over 150,000 visitors per month,” sold merchandise – and continues to sell merchandise – including hoodies, T-shirts and previously sold socks and baseball caps among other things."
The docs point out, "Ms. Madix hosts Love Island USA, appeared on season 32 of the televised dance competition series Dancing with the Stars, and has played the role of Roxie Hart in the Broadway musical Chicago, a role which Ms. Madix will reprise as of August 1, 2024."
The stars provide a timeline of when Something About Her was an idea brought up in a January 2022 episode of Vanderpump Rules, which they say had 650,000 viewers.
They then add that they filmed a “soft launch” tasting event of Something About Her, which filmed in September 2022 but aired in May 2023 and brought in “over 1.4 million viewers.”
The café, which eventually opened in May 2024, was “highly-anticipated and widely reported on by the press.” The ladies allege their “sandwich shop connect and brand focused on celebrating femininity and fostering female empowerment and connection.”
Penny's attorney responded to The U.S. Sun, “The only statement I would make on Penny’s behalf is that she respectfully disagrees with the opposition that was filed and intends to fully address these matters in the appropriate legal proceedings.”
ANOTHER LEGAL WAR
Apart from the trademark dispute, Chef Penny, and Ariana and Katie are embroiled in a lawsuit in Los Angeles court.
Penny filed a civil suit on July 18, 2024, claiming the ladies failed to uphold their end of the agreement they had when she took on the role of COO/Director of Culinary.
In June 2023, she claims she was promised a 10 percent partnership if she helped develop and operate Something About Her, according to TMZ.
She was supposed to be paid $7,5000 a month until January 2024, at which point her rate would increase to $10k per month.
The parties have a case management conference set for December of this year.
Meanwhile, Ariana is still involved in a lawsuit with her ex Tom Sandoval after the former couple was sued by Rachel Leviss for revenge porn earlier this year.
Chef Penny, for her part, is currently helping her 24-year-old daughter, Sophia, battle brain cancer by setting up a GoFundMe fundraiser to help raise funds.
