Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes’ glitzy steakhouse rocked by lawsuit claiming partners siphoned millions and ‘extorted’ lawyer as he battled blood cancer

Travis Kelce’s restaurant business partners are accused of wrongly ‘siphoning’ millions of dollars from their firm and ‘extorting’ their general counsel while he recovered from blood cancer.

Kelce and Kansas City Chiefs fellow star Patrick Mahomes partnered with glitzy restaurant firm Noble 33 last year to open 1587 Prime, a Kansas City steakhouse and celebrity haunt.

On its VIP opening night on September 9, Mahomes, Kelce and his megastar fiancée Taylor Swift dined there to celebrate their new business venture. The glamorous evening went off without a hitch for the front-of-house.

But in the back, a multi-million-dollar feud exploded – as Noble 33 co-founders Tosh Berman and Michael Tanha allegedly ambushed their partner and chief legal officer Matthew Syken with his termination from their hospitality firm, The Madera Group (TMG), in what he claims was retaliation for exposing misconduct.

Now the Chiefs stars’ restaurant play might be fumbling on the first drive, as a tense legal battle threatens to engulf the firm with allegations of fraud, embezzlement and discrimination.

Syken has claimed in lawsuits filed in Nevada and California that his sudden firing on opening night was part of a vicious retaliation, after he exposed Berman and Tanha’s alleged plot to siphon millions of dollars from a gift card scheme while Syken was off work dealing with a blood cancer diagnosis.

Kelce and Mahomes have not been named in the lawsuit, and are not accused of any wrongdoing.

The chief legal officer wrote in legal filings that Noble33 partnered with a gift card company called inKind, in a deal that paid Noble ‘millions of dollars in advance payments in exchange for the sale of store credits redeemable at Toca Madera restaurants’ – their culinary chain.

Syken, Berman and Tanha’s partnership has included popular fast-casual restaurants Tocaya Organica and Tender Greens, as well as upscale LA restaurant Casa Madera and Mexican steakhouse chain Toca Madera.

Syken claimed Berman and Tanha improperly poured those millions from inKind into their own private accounts.

‘Although presented as a marketing and financing program, these arrangements allowed Berman and Tanha to generate significant up-front cash that was later distributed to themselves,’ Syken wrote in a motion filed in a Clark County, Nevada court where part of their legal battle has been waged.

Syken claims in his court filings that when he found out and confronted the pair, Berman and Tanha tried to ‘extort’ him by threatening his legal license. They also claimed they withheld his pay, fired him, and canceled his medical insurance during his cancer recovery.