The Mark hotel on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, known for hosting celebrities and the super rich. Photograph: George Etheredge/New York Times The trouble began in August 2021, according to the claims in an unusual lawsuit filed in July, when Theodore Weintraub was 17 and attempted something of an American rite of passage: buying alcohol with a fake ID. He tried, and failed, many times. But instead of going into a bodega or Midtown dive bar, he repeatedly chose the bar in one of Manhattan’s most exclusive hotels, attached to a restaurant run by celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, where...