MrBeast Doubles Down On Denying Claims In Harassment Lawsuit

MrBeast isn’t wasting time in officially rebutting salacious allegations of sexual harassment, retaliation and more from a former member of Beast Industries’ social media team.

Having already denied Lorrayne Mavromatis’ claims in a lawsuit she filed this week against the company in North Carolina federal court, Beast Industries on Friday went to court itself to get the whole thing tossed out.

Mocking Mavromatis’ desire for “reinstatement” at Beast HQ despite her version of how things allegedly went down there, a “defendant’s answer and affirmative defenses to complaint” sets the tone right up front by referring to her as a media manipulator and “social media influencer who filed this lawsuit to gain publicity by leveraging one of the most recognized YouTube creators in the world.”

“At bottom, Plaintiff’s termination was a lawful business decision that was unrelated to her gender, her parental leave, or raising of any issues with human resources,” the filing by Charlotte-based law firm Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP states. “It was simply the result of hard choices the company had to make to restructure a specific business that was underperforming.”

The 21-page document goes on to say: “Plaintiff’s allegations do not change these facts. They ignore them.”

“What remains of Plaintiff’s complaint are hostile work environment allegations for a claim she foreshadows but does not yet bring,” it adds, referring to a part of the suit where Mavromatis and her lawyers refer to comments allegedly made by ex-Beast Industries CEO (and cousin of MrBeast aka Jimmy Donaldson) James Warren. “That unasserted claim appears to center on conduct of former employees who left the company years ago after a well-publicized 2024 culture review ordered by the company’s current management team to help the rapidly growing company evolve into what it is today. Any claims Plaintiff may try to assert about the company’s former managers are, however, time-barred.”

Earlier this week, the Donaldson-founded Beast Industries said pretty much the same thing but more starkly in a statement to Deadline after the lawsuit was filed. “There is extensive evidence — including Slack and WhatsApp messages, company documents, and witness testimony — that unequivocally refutes her claims,” a spokesperson asserted, providing a signed employee handbook and further 2022-2025 communications from Mavromatis as proof. “We will not submit to opportunistic lawyers looking to manufacture a payday from us.”

Much of that same so-called proof, as well as a photo of Mavromatis back home in Brazil with soccer star Neymar on a Beast trip, is included in today’s filing.

At the same time, MrBeast still faces a class action suit filed in September 2024 against Beast Industries and Amazon claiming that Season 1 of the their competition series Beast Games “subjected the contestants to unreasonable, unsafe, and unlawful employment conditions.” As the battle over the allegations over the $5 million prize show continues, Season 2 of Beast Games has come and gone, and a third season is supposedly in the works.