filed her lawsuit earlier this week<\/a>, claiming she was terminated from her social media manager position at Beast Industries after returning from maternity leave \u2014 following years of what she alleged to be workplace gender bias and sexual harassment. <\/p>\nIn the new filing, MrBeast \u2014 whose real name is James Stephen \u201cJimmy\u201d Donaldson \u2014 categorically denied Mavromatis\u2019 claims of retaliation for raising issues with the company\u2019s human resources department, intentionally causing emotional distress, and interference with Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA.) <\/p>\n
MrBeast (pictured above with Jimmy Fallon in February) has asked a judge to toss a lawsuit filed by an ex-employee. Todd Owyoung\/NBC via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The YouTuber categorically denied claims of harassment and retaliation, among other things, by former employee Lorrayne Mavromantis (above in a 2024 photo.) AP<\/p>\n
The documents hit back at Mavromantis\u2019 claim that her removal from her job was due to parental leave or gender bias \u2014 and asserted it was simply a \u201clawful business decision\u201d stemming from corporate restructuring. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was simply the result of hard choices the company had to make to restructure a specific business that was underperforming,\u201d according to the docs.<\/p>\n
They further accused her of using her parental leave time to bolster her personal brand, and alleged in docs that she filed her suit \u201cto gain publicity by leveraging one of the most recognized YouTube creators in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finally, they requested the former employee\u2019s lawsuit be dismissed. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis clout-chasing complaint is built on deliberate misrepresentations and categorically false statements, and we have the receipts to prove it,\u201d a company spokesperson told Page Six in a statement. The social media star is seen above in 2023. YouTube\/Lex Fridman<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will not submit to opportunistic lawyers looking to manufacture a payday from us,\u201d the statement read. MrBeast is pictured above at the 2026 TIME100 Gala. Stephen Lovekin\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis clout-chasing complaint is built on deliberate misrepresentations and categorically false statements, and we have the receipts to prove it,\u201d a company spokesperson said in a statement to Page Six on Friday. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere is extensive evidence \u2014 including Slack and WhatsApp messages, company documents, and witness testimony \u2014 that unequivocally refutes her claims. We will not submit to opportunistic lawyers looking to manufacture a payday from us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Attorneys for Mavromantis did not immediately return Page Six\u2019s request for comment on Friday. <\/p>\n
Mavromatis filed the original lawsuit in federal court in North Carolina on Wednesday \u2014 as well as a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accusing the company of retaliation and discrimination on the basis of sex and pregnancy. <\/p>\n
Mavromantis claimed in her lawsuit that Beast Industries fired her weeks after she returned from maternity leave. The YouTuber is seen above at the 2026 TIME100 Summit. Getty Images for TIME<\/p>\n
She also claimed the firing came after years of alleged workplace gender bias and sexual harassment. The YouTube star is pictured here in December in New York City. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Per the Associated Press, she claimed she worked \u201cnonstop\u201d in the delivery room and after the birth of her child. \u201cI was still bleeding, and I just had to show up,\u201d she told the AP earlier this week, claiming that she\u2019d been fired less than three weeks after returning to her job. <\/p>\n
According to the AP, the company shared a Slack message exchange in which Mavromatis canceled a meeting and wrote that she was \u201cactually in labor at the hospital as we speak\u201d on March 31, 2025 \u2014 and an employee informed her she \u201cshouldn\u2019t even be checking\u201d her messages. <\/p>\n
The company also shared a screenshot of Mavromantis\u2019 signature confirming she\u2019d been given a company handbook containing, among other information, FMLA policies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MrBeast has doubled down on his denials against a former employee\u2019s harassment claims and asked a judge to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,8679,91,94,88,9280],"class_list":{"0":"post-605158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity-lawsuits","10":"tag-celebrity-news","11":"tag-celebrity-social-media","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}