The Michelin Guide has officially stripped West Palm Beach restaurant Konro of its lone Michelin star months after police arrested its chef-owner, Jacob Bickelhaupt, on domestic-violence charges that have since been upgraded to attempted second-degree murder.

The French tire company has scrubbed the restaurant from its website along with its guide entry, a decision that marks the first time Palm Beach County has earned — and then lost — a Michelin star. It’s unclear whether the restaurant will reopen; while its website is down, its social media pages remain online.

In an email response to the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Tuesday, the Michelin Guide stated it had removed Konro’s star because the “restaurant has closed.”

“The team keeps the selections up to date and given the restaurant has closed, it has been removed from the selection,” said Carly Grieff, a Michelin spokesperson.

Michelin’s statement seems to differ from its original response in June, when it told the Sun Sentinel that while it “firmly condemns all acts of violence, aggression and harassment,” it took no action following the chef’s arrest, arguing that “MICHELIN Stars are annual distinctions and therefore our Inspectors revisit the restaurants annually.”

Bickelhaupt, 41, remains in Palm Beach County jail as of Wednesday, according to inmate records, and faces charges of attempted second-degree murder and false imprisonment following his June 2 arrest over an alleged assault at his home that investigators say lasted roughly two hours. Bickelhaupt has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

The Palm Beach County Public Defender’s Office, which represents him, told the Sun Sentinel in a brief phone call on Tuesday that it does not comment on open cases.

According to Palm Beach County court records, Bickelhaupt’s next hearing is scheduled for Sept. 8.

Timeline: What happened to Bickelhaupt and Konro?

Bickelhaupt’s acclaimed 10-seat chef counter Konro closed in June, nearly two years after it debuted in Flamingo Park Market on the edge of downtown West Palm Beach.

The sit-down was so named for the Japanese charcoal grill used in many courses, which included Japanese A5 Wagyu steak, edible floral arrangements of microgreens and crackling chicken-skin cones filled with foie gras and cloudberry jam.

On June 2, almost two months after winning Konro’s — and by extension Palm Beach County’s — first Michelin star, Bickelhaupt was arrested on charges of aggravated battery causing bodily harm or disability and battery causing bodily harm.

The attack began when the victim, a woman who worked with Bickelhaupt, approached him asleep on the couch in the early-morning hours to persuade him to come back to bed, according to a probable cause affidavit. An argument ensued and Bickelhaupt allegedly followed her into the bedroom and started punching her in the face and kicking her, and kept on attacking even as she crawled away.

The victim managed to escape and take a rideshare to Palm Beach International Airport to return to Denver, where she had grown up. However, she suffered a seizure, collapsed at the ticket counter and paramedics rushed her to St. Mary’s Medical Center, according to an arrest report.

Had she gotten on the flight, doctors later told her family, she would probably have died.

“They caught her in the nick of time,” the victim’s sister told the Sun Sentinel.

The woman initially told Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies that she had been in a car accident. But medical staff told deputies that the woman’s injuries — two blackened eyes, facial swelling, bruising from shoulders to wrists, a subdural hematoma requiring emergency surgery — weren’t consistent with a car accident.

Eventually, the victim gave a sworn statement to police identifying Bickelhaupt as the man who attacked her for two hours as she tried to escape. When officers visited her home later, they found blood splatter in multiple rooms, on bedding, walls and furniture, according to the arrest report.

Following Bickelhaupt’s June 3 court appearance, a judge declared him indigent and granted him a public defender, setting his bond at $90,000 along with a no-contact order with the victim.

The Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office later filed additional felony witness-tampering charges against Bickelhaupt, accusing him of violating the no-contact order by calling the woman on two occasions. (These charges were later downgraded to a misdemeanor: violating pre-trial release conditions.)

Then, on June 11, felony battery charges were upgraded to attempted second-degree murder and false imprisonment.

The victim’s condition was not immediately available, as hospitals do not give out information on domestic violence victims. Voicemails and text messages left with the victim on Tuesday were not returned.

A pattern of behavior

In a 2022 profile of Konro, Bickelhaupt told the Sun Sentinel he had moved to West Palm Beach that June along with his wife with two equally ambitious goals: rebuilding his life and earning more Michelin stars.

At his acclaimed Chicago restaurant 42 Grams, Bickelhaupt had climbed the pinnacle of the culinary world, picking up two Michelin stars in 2014, 2015 and 2016. He also won Food & Wine’s Best Chef in 2015 and received James Beard Award semifinalist nods in 2016 and 2017.

But then those laurels, along with his reputation, slipped away in an act of violence that touched off years of controversy.

Documents filed in Cook County Circuit Court describe a June 4, 2017, attack by Bickelhaupt against his then-ex-wife, Alexa Welsh, in which he grabbed her “hair and threw (her) to ground, then struck victim in head with [a sparkling water] bottle, causing injury.” The attack resulted in lacerations requiring staples, according to Eater Chicago.

“She stepped toward me, and I reacted,” he says in “86’ed,” a 2021 documentary he self-financed and promoted through Konro’s official website. “I don’t remember hitting her over the head with a bottle like that. I hurt her bad and I freaked out … I asked [an employee] to call 911 and left in a panic back to my apartment. I had a bunch of beer and whiskey at home and was going to kill myself.”

42 Grams permanently closed the next day, and police charged Bickelhaupt with a simple battery. He pleaded guilty.

The Internet backlash was swift. “Just go away and realize Michelin is never gonna give wife beater ANY MORE STARS,” one commenter wrote on social media. “Someone needs to beat the s— out of Jacob publicly,” another wrote.

“What I did was a very situational, passionate, alcoholic long story,” he recounted to the Sun Sentinel in October 2022. “It was horrible, and it never should have happened, and what I did was 100% wrong. And that’s why I’m trying to make amends to all that stuff. I’m going to live with what I did forever. I punish myself more than anyone else can punish me, I promise you that.”

Reached through social media this past June, his ex-wife told the Sun Sentinel she wasn’t surprised to hear he was accused of harming someone else.

“Violence is a cycle. How does the saying go?” Welsh said. “‘Those who do not learn history …’ I sent [the victim] a message of support. I hope she’s able to make a full recovery.”