The media company led by MrBeast, the YouTube megastar whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, has been sued by a former employee, who alleges she was subjected to years of sexual harassment, gender bias and retaliation by Donaldson and other senior leadership. Donaldson’s company, Beast Industries, denied the allegations and called them “categorically false.”

MrBeast’s Beast Industries has over 500 employees. Donaldson is the most-followed creator on YouTube, currently with 479 million subscribers for his MrBeast channel alone.

Lorrayne Mavromatis is a former exec who worked for MrBeast from Aug. 22, 2022, until Nov. 6, 2025. In her complaint (available at this link), filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Mavromatis describes a workplace culture in which harassment of women employees was normalized and complaints were dismissed. She says she was terminated after raising concerns about the company’s hostile work environment to her employer and taking maternity leave.

Mavromatis was hired as Beast Industries’ head of Instagram, at an annual salary of $100,000. In June 2023, she was promoted to head of creative, and her annual salary was increased to $120,000. Shortly afterwards, Mavromatis was promoted again and her salary increased to $250,000, according to her lawsuit. Per the lawsuit, Mavromatis managed a team of approximately 20 employees and a monthly budget of roughly $500,000.

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