A former worker at Beast Industries has sued the manufacturing firm based by YouTuber MrBeast (authorized title Jimmy Donaldson), alleging she was subjected to “years” of sexual harassment by firm leaders.
In the federal lawsuit, filed on April 22 within the Jap District Court docket of North Carolina, Lorrayne Mavromatis alleged she confronted sexual harassment from Beast Industries CEO James Warren.
Mavromatis, who was employed in 2022 as the top of the corporate’s Instagram group, claims that Warren made her “meet him in his house for one-on-one conferences whereas commenting on the way in which she seemed in her garments,” in keeping with the authorized paperwork.
She additionally alleges that Warren “dismissed her grievance a couple of male shopper’s unwelcome advances towards her as nothing (telling her that she needs to be honored that the shopper was hitting on her).”
Mavromatis claims that when she requested Warren why Donaldson wouldn’t “work together with her on sure tasks,” she says that Warren advised her “that she is a wonderful lady and her look had a sure sexual impact on Jimmy.”
In accordance with the authorized submitting, Mavromatis claims she was “handled otherwise than her male counterpart.”
“Plaintiff was advised to go away an in any other case all-male assembly by Donaldson. She was advised by a male colleague to ‘shut up’ or ‘cease speaking’ when she voiced her opinion at a workers assembly with staff she supervised,” the authorized docs stated.
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“Donaldson stated he would solely take part in her video shoot if she introduced him a beer — a job meant to demean her as she rushed across the manufacturing website in the hunt for a beer in entrance of the manufacturing group when it was identified Donaldson didn’t actually drink, and he certainly didn’t drink the beer,” the swimsuit alleges.
Mavromatis claims that executives at Beast Industries displayed “demeaning therapy in direction of ladies” and it was “publicly displayed at MrBeast headquarters when male executives laughed and made jokes on the workplace about feminine contestants of BeastGames who complained they didn’t have entry to female hygiene merchandise and clear underwear whereas collaborating within the present.”
Beast Video games is Donaldson’s competitors actuality present, wherein contestants compete in bodily, psychological and social challenges for an opportunity to win a $5 million money prize.
Beast Industries denied Mavromatis’ claims in a press release to Deadline and referred to the swimsuit as “not more than a shakedown.”
“This clout-chasing grievance is constructed on deliberate misrepresentations and categorically false statements, and we’ve got the receipts to show it,” Beast Industries stated. “There’s in depth proof — together with Slack and WhatsApp messages, firm paperwork, and witness testimony — that unequivocally refutes her claims. We won’t undergo opportunistic legal professionals seeking to manufacture a payday from us.”
Mavromatis stated that when she complained concerning the alleged “sexual harassment and the hostile work atmosphere” to human assets in 2023, she was advised her claims have been “unsubstantiated” and he or she was “promptly demoted and transferred to an obscure position identified by MrBeast staff because the division the place ‘careers go to die.’”
In early 2025, Mavromatis turned pregnant, she says within the swimsuit, and alleges the corporate didn’t inform her about its maternity depart coverage.
“MrBeast terminated Plaintiff lower than three weeks after she returned from FMLA [Family and Medical Leave Act] and pregnancy-related depart telling her that she was ‘too excessive caliber’ for the position she was demoted into after formally complaining about sexual harassment and the hostile work atmosphere at MrBeast,” the lawsuit says.
Mavromatis claims that close to the date of her termination, “MrBeast posted a job opening for a Social Media Content material Supervisor.”
“MrBeast didn’t supply Plaintiff this Social Media Content material Supervisor position and even a chance to use for the place. As a substitute, MrBeast provided her a severance settlement with a launch of all employment claims and strict confidentiality,” the swimsuit says. “Human Sources and her supervisor stated if she signed the severance settlement, they might give her a further month of medical insurance that lined herself and child. MrBeast stuffed the Social Media Content material Supervisor place with a male in early 2026.”
Mavromatis’ lawsuit claims that MrBeast “apparently noticed no downside with firing Plaintiff, a feminine worker with no efficiency points who had efficiently carried out roles at MrBeast, inside a number of weeks of her return from maternity depart and changing her with a person.”
She is looking for misplaced wages, misplaced advantages, reinstatement, entrance pay in lieu of reinstatement, liquidated damages, compensatory damages, punitive damages, injunctive aid, pre- and post-judgment curiosity and affordable legal professionals’ charges and prices, in keeping with the grievance.
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