A former employee of Howard Stern claims in a new lawsuit that the SiriusXM star and his wife Beth Stern imposed unusually strict, and sometimes very personal, rules on his household staff.
Leslie Kuhn, the former executive assistant who managed the Sterns’ Hamptons home, has accused the couple of creating a hostile work environment, according to a lawsuit filed in New York Supreme Court over the weekend.
According to documents obtained by Page Six, Mr. Kuhn was asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement prohibiting him from discussing Howard and Beth’s personal as well as professional matters.
The agreement would prohibit Kuhn from disclosing the Stern family’s “daily activities or personal habits,” even their “food preferences, sleeping habits, (and) hobbies.”
She will also be prohibited from discussing her use of consumer products, her choice of restaurants, hotels and other establishments, her entertainment preferences, her political affiliations and “any other matters affecting or relating to the Company and its business and the personal and business affairs of the Company,” according to the complaint.
Other off-limits subjects allegedly included “the location or contents of residences and other property” and their “travel arrangements.”
In the lawsuit, Kuhn claimed that she was tasked with managing the staff at the Southampton mansion, handling household duties, as well as overseeing Beth’s “extensive in-home cat rescue and fostering operation.”
According to the documents, Kuhn claimed she received a letter from Howard’s production company in December 2025 stating that her salary would increase to $265,000 in 2026 with an $80,000 bonus, but that she was fired in February.
According to court documents, Kuhn believes her termination was the result of a hostile work environment as well as “immense pressure on the family created by the irresponsible and unsustainable animal rescue and fostering practices taking place on-site, as well as highly disorganized and questionable business operations and accounting practices.”
The former staffer also claimed in the filing that Howard’s production company presented her with a non-disclosure agreement, which she denies ever signing.
She asked the court to make the NDA unenforceable to silence her from talking about hiring and firing. Conversely, it is said that Howard, 72, and Beth, 53, cannot protect her from speaking freely about her.
“Such a contractual relationship places Mr. Kuhn (a mere at-will employee with significantly less influence and resources than the Stern family and its affiliates and associates) at a clear personal, professional, and public disadvantage,” the filing states.
Page Six has reached out to Howard and Beth Stern for comment.
