SEA CLIFF, N.Y.—Two women have been arrested in an anti-gay attack on a former “Top Chef” reality show contestant and her friends, police said.

Nassau County police announced the arrests Nov. 17, a day after victim Josie Smith-Malave’s attorney said she had filed a complaint accusing investigators of not pursuing the case energetically enough.

Smith-Malave, who is openly gay and competed on the Bravo channel show, and three other women were assaulted by about a dozen people after being thrown out of a Sea Cliff bar Sept. 1, according to police. The attackers hurled slurs about the women’s perceived sexual orientation, spat on them and hit them, according to police.

Melissa Trimarchi, 21, was arrested on a misdemeanor assault charge, police said. She was released on an appearance ticket until a Nov. 30 court date.

Police also said that Elizabeth Borroughs, 20, had been arrested Nov. 13 on a misdemeanor charge of aggravated harassment. She also was released on an appearance ticket and is due in court Nov. 23.

A homeless man, 20-year-old Matthew W. Walli, was arrested in September on a charge of robbery as a bias crime; he was accused of stealing a victim’s video camera during the attack.

Smith-Malave’s lawyer, Yetta Kurland, rapped the investigation before the arrests were announced, saying police hadn’t gone after all suspects vigorously and had failed “to treat the vicious attack…as the violent hate crime that it was.”