Chef Barbara Lynch is hosting an estate sale in Gloucester as she faces a lawsuit for $1.7 million in unpaid property taxes, featuring items from art to designer clothes.

The news of the estate sale comes weeks after the City of Boston filed a lawsuit against the chef over unpaid taxes. The post Chef Barbara Lynch will hold estate sale at Gloucester home appeared first on Boston.

In October, Lynch announced she would be closing and selling her remaining restaurants, and the following month she was sued by Boston officials for unpaid property taxes.

Embattled world-renowned chef and Massachusetts restaurateur Barbara Lynch is selling more than 400 of her possessions in an estate sale on the North Shore of Massachusetts.

Barbara Lynch owes quite a lot in back taxes, according to the city, so Boston's own born-and-bred celebrity chef is selling off artwork, cooking items and mementos from her career. Why it matters: The rare estate sale in plena vita looks like an attempt to empty out Lynch's Gloucester home of everything from framed paintings and chef's smocks to outdoor statues and a snow blower.

Barbara Lynch, a popular chef whose Boston restaurants are shutting down at the end of the year, is now holding an estate sale at her Gloucester home