MrBeast has doubled down on his denials against a former employee’s harassment claims and asked a judge to toss her 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 denied all allegations of wrongdoing after Lorrayne Mavromatis sued his company.
Mavromatis filed her lawsuit earlier this week, claiming she was terminated from her social media manager position at Beast Industries after returning from maternity leave — following years of what she alleged to be workplace gender bias and sexual harassment.
In the new filing, MrBeast — whose real name is James Stephen “Jimmy” Donaldson — categorically denied Mavromatis’ claims of retaliation for raising issues with the company’s human resources department, intentionally causing emotional distress, and interference with Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA.)
The documents hit back at Mavromantis’ claim that her removal from her job was due to parental leave or gender bias — and asserted it was simply a “lawful business decision” stemming from corporate restructuring.
“It was simply the result of hard choices the company had to make to restructure a specific business that was underperforming,” according to the docs.
They further accused her of using her parental leave time to bolster her personal brand, and alleged in docs that she filed her suit “to gain publicity by leveraging one of the most recognized YouTube creators in the world.”
Finally, they requested the former employee’s lawsuit be dismissed.
“This clout-chasing complaint is built on deliberate misrepresentations and categorically false statements, and we have the receipts to prove it,” a company spokesperson said in a statement to Page Six on Friday.
“There is extensive evidence — including Slack and WhatsApp messages, company documents, and witness testimony — that unequivocally refutes her claims. We will not submit to opportunistic lawyers looking to manufacture a payday from us.”
Attorneys for Mavromantis did not immediately return Page Six’s request for comment on Friday.
Mavromatis filed the original lawsuit in federal court in North Carolina on Wednesday — 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.
Per the Associated Press, she claimed she worked “nonstop” in the delivery room and after the birth of her child. “I was still bleeding, and I just had to show up,” she told the AP earlier this week, claiming that she’d been fired less than three weeks after returning to her job.
According to the AP, the company shared a Slack message exchange in which Mavromatis canceled a meeting and wrote that she was “actually in labor at the hospital as we speak” on March 31, 2025 — and an employee informed her she “shouldn’t even be checking” her messages.
The company also shared a screenshot of Mavromantis’ signature confirming she’d been given a company handbook containing, among other information, FMLA policies.