Mr.Beast has doubled down on its denials of harassment claims by former employees and asked a judge to throw out the lawsuit.
In documents filed in North Carolina and obtained by Page Six on Friday, the YouTube star and his companies (MrBeastYouTube, LLC and GameChanger 24/7, LLC) strongly deny all allegations of wrongdoing after Lorraine Mavromatis sued the company.
Mavromatis filed a lawsuit earlier this week alleging years of gender bias and sexual harassment at work and that she was fired from her job as social media manager at Beast Industries after returning from maternity leave.
In a new filing, Mr. Beast, whose real name is James Stephen “Jimmy” Donaldson, flatly denies Mr. Mavromatis’ claims that he was retaliating for raising the issue with the company’s human resources department, intentionally inflicting emotional distress, and interfering with the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
The document countered Mavromantis’ claims that his removal from the job was due to parental leave or gender discrimination, arguing that it was simply a “legitimate management decision” resulting from a company restructuring.
“This was simply the result of difficult choices the company had to make in order to restructure certain underperforming businesses,” the document said.
They also accused her of using her parental leave to strengthen her personal brand, and claimed in the document that she filed the lawsuit “to exploit one of the world’s most famous YouTube creators to gain recognition.”
Finally, they asked for the former employees’ lawsuits to be dismissed.
“This influence complaint is based on intentional misrepresentation and materially false statements, and we have the receipts to prove it,” a company spokesperson said in a statement to Page Six on Friday.
“We have extensive evidence, including Slack and WhatsApp messages, company documents, and witness testimony, that unequivocally refutes her claims. We will not yield to opportunistic lawyers who seek to defraud us of our paychecks.”
Mavromantis’ attorney did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment Friday.
Mavromatis filed her first lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in North Carolina, and also filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accusing the company of retaliation and discrimination based on sex and pregnancy.
She claimed to have worked “nonstop” in the delivery room after giving birth, according to the Associated Press. “I had no choice but to come to work because I was still bleeding,” she told The Associated Press earlier this week, claiming she was fired less than three weeks after returning to work.
The company shared a Slack message exchange in which Ms. Mavromatis canceled a meeting and wrote that she was “actually in labor at the hospital as we speak” on March 31, 2025, but an employee told her “not to check” the messages, according to the Associated Press.
The company also shared a screenshot of Ms. Mavromantis’ signature confirming that she was given the company handbook, which includes the FMLA policy.
