MrBeast’s former Head of Creative files suit against his company, alleging “boy’s club” culture of sexual harassment

MrBeast‘s former Head of Creative has filed suit against his company, alleging she was sexually harassed by coworkers and clients, expected to work during her set period of maternity leave, and was fired after returning from leave.

Lorrayne Mavromatis, a Brazilian Instagrammer with over a million followers, filed suit in North Carolina April 22. She joined Beast Industries in 2022 as Head of Instagram, and was promoted twice within her first year; at one point, she was making $250K/year as Head of Creative, before being demoted, and then fired in 2025.

Her complaint alleges that during her time at Beast Industries, she experienced a “boy’s club” where she was forced to work in a “dimly lit” room in former CEO James Warren‘s personal home instead of the company’s office, and would have one-on-one meetings with him where he commented on her looks.

Mavromatis also alleges MrBeast–aka Jimmy Donaldson–refused to work with her on certain projects. When she asked Warren about this, he responded, “Jimmy gets really awkward around beautiful women. Let’s just say that when you’re around and he goes to the restroom, he’s not actually using the restroom,” per the suit.

In another case, Mavromatis expressed discomfort to Warren over a client hitting on her; he allegedly replied that she should be “honored” by the client’s advances.

Warren was not the only member of Donaldson’s company to make inappropriate comments, the suit alleges. Mavromatis claims that in one exchange, Donaldson said he would only participate in a video shoot with her “if she brought him a beer.” Mavromatis says she was also told to “shut up” or “stop talking” by a male colleague when she raised issues in a meeting.

In another instance, she witnessed male executives mocking female contestants on the first season of Beast Games “who complained they did not have access to feminine hygiene products and clean underwear while participating in the show,” per the suit.

“In this male-centric workplace, Plaintiff, one of the few women in a high-level role, was excluded from otherwise all-male meetings, demeaned in front of colleagues, harassed, and suffered from males [being] given preferential treatment in employment decisions,” the suit alleges.

This is not the first time Mavromatis has reported her concerns. She filed a formal report with Beast Industries’ head of HR in November 2023, noting “the sexually inappropriate encounters and harassment, and demeaning and hostile work environment she and other female employees had been living and experiencing working at MrBeast,” the suit says.

However, head of HR at the time was Sue Parisher–Donaldson’s mother.

After an investigation into her report, Mavromatis was demoted to Social Media Manager of Merchandise, a role “known by [company] employees as the division where ‘careers go to die,'” the suit alleges.

Mavromatis’s suit further claims Donaldson’s company violated the Family and Medical Leave Act, which allows employees to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specific family and medical reasons, including giving birth.

Following her demotion, Mavromatis went on leave to have her baby, but said she was expected to keep working. The suit claims she was pressured to join a conference call while actively in labor, and that she worked “nonstop” following her baby’s birth. “I was still bleeding, and I just had to show up,” she told The Associated Press.

The suit claims Mavromatis has suffered “mental anguish, humiliation, embarrassment” and “damage to her emotional and psychological well-being.” It seeks damages in the form of “lost wages, lost benefits, [and] reinstatement.”

MrBeast’s company has refuted all Mavromatis’s claims, calling her suit “clout-chasing” and saying it will not “submit to opportunistic lawyers looking to manufacture a payday from us.”

It claims Mavromatis’s position was eliminated as part of a reorg brought on by Beast Industries’ new Head of Ecommerce.

In regards to Mavromatis’s allegations about being forced to work during maternity leave, the company produced a March 31, 2025 screenshot from Slack where Mavromatis tells a coworker she’s “actually in labor at the hospital as we speak,” and the coworker responds by telling her she “shouldn’t even be checking” her messages.

Onstage at the Time100 Summit hours after Mavromatis’s complaint was filed, MrBeast was asked about “attention” on his company’s “culture,” and if there’s anything he would change.

Donaldson replied, “Yeah, I mean that’s always something that people talk about. I started this business when I was 11, so obviously, I didn’t know what that word meant back then. It’s obviously evolved over the lifetime of the company, but, you know, a couple of years ago, especially now we’re at 750 employees, I brought in more experienced people because, you know, shocker, as a person who’s studied YouTube videos and studied content, isn’t, you know, maybe the best to set a culture of a company at this scale.”