June 25, 2026, 6:09 p.m. ET
Kylie Jenner is going through a 3rd lawsuit from a former worker over office situations.
A former non-public chef for the wonder mogul, 28, filed a grievance in Los Angeles Superior Court docket June 22 on greater than two dozen claims, together with discrimination, harassment, emotional misery, wrongful termination, retaliation and failure to pay correct wages, in keeping with paperwork obtained by USA TODAY.
The chef, who held the place from November 2024 by means of March 2025, alleges she was assigned “extreme hours, bodily demanding duties, and high-pressure occasions” regardless of informing Jenner and her administration group of her high-risk being pregnant, which required lodging.
Legal professional Della Shaker of Shaker Regulation Group addressed the swimsuit on behalf of the chef in a press release to USA TODAY on Thursday, June 25: “For our consumer, this case is about discovering justice after one of the painful chapters of her life. She appears to be like ahead to having the reality come to mild by means of the judicial course of.”
USA TODAY reached out to a consultant for Jenner for remark.
Former Kylie Jenner chef particulars ‘extreme workload’
Whereas pregnant, the chef says she was subjected to verbal hostility and mistreatment by her supervisors. One occasion occurred in December 2024 when the chef alleges she was instructed “to carry and transport heavy meals gadgets throughout the road and uphill with out help,” inflicting a medical emergency.
The chef says she “grew to become dizzy, started choking and gasping for air, and required help from safety personnel” throughout the incident. Later that day, she alleges a supervisor “reprimanded” her for upsetting Jenner together with her conduct.
Throughout a party for Jenner’s youngster on Feb. 1, 2025, the chef was allegedly assigned an “extreme workload” and denied requests for help, main her to interrupt down emotionally in the midst of the occasion. That evening, she says she “skilled excessive bodily exhaustion and heaviness all through her physique because of the extended and intense workload.”
The subsequent morning, the chef says she awoke “experiencing extreme hemorrhaging and drove herself to the emergency room,” the place she “was knowledgeable that there was no detectable heartbeat and that she had misplaced her unborn youngster.”
After returning to work, she disclosed her miscarriage and alleged she was falsely blamed for leaving Jenner’s home in “disarray” following the Feb. 1 occasion. On Feb. 8, 2025, the chef suffered one other hemorrhage and was hospitalized.
The chef alleges a supervisor had “repeatedly recommended” she relocate to New York to be nearer to household. After emailing that supervisor to request the transfer, she claims her employers characterised her “communication about her medical situation and relocation as a voluntary resignation regardless of [her] intent to stay employed.”
On March 14, shortly after returning to the job, the chef says she was instructed “she had been faraway from the Kylie Jenner family project and that March 31, 2025, can be her closing day.”
The next week, the chef was allegedly requested “what it could take” to work a future occasion for Jenner, and he or she “clarified that she had by no means resigned and was confused as a result of she believed she had already been terminated.” A supervisor mentioned they might focus on the matter with the group, however the chef was later knowledgeable “it was not going to work out,” the grievance says.
The chef alleges throughout her employment, she was by no means supplied “compliant meal intervals, relaxation intervals, time beyond regulation compensation, mileage reimbursement, and correct wage statements.” After being let go, she reported “discrimination, harassment, retaliation, pregnancy-related mistreatment, lodging failures, and wage violations” to administration agency Tri Star, named as a co-defendant.
On Could 22, 2025, a Tri Star group member emailed the chef “proposing a settlement and launch settlement on behalf of herself and Defendant Kylie Jenner and her companies,” which might have barred the chef from suing in change for fee if she agreed.
The submitting additional accuses Jenner and her co-defendants of failing to adequately help the chef regardless of understanding about her well being circumstances, mistreatment and desires to stay employed. “As a direct and proximate results of Defendants’ illegal conduct, Plaintiff suffered extreme emotional misery, anxiousness, despair, humiliation, psychological anguish, and different damages,” the grievance concludes.
The chef is asking for damages, together with again pay, misplaced wages, misplaced earnings and misplaced employment advantages, entrance pay in lieu of reinstatement, all unpaid wages, attorneys’ prices and costs, and a jury trial.
Jenner is going through two different lawsuits by former housekeepers. Angelica Hernandez Vasquez, additionally represented by Shaker, filed her grievance on April 17 alleging “a hostile work atmosphere” by which she skilled “discrimination, harassment, and retaliation … primarily based on her race, nationwide origin, faith, and incapacity.”
Juana Delgado Soto filed in April 29 for wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, failure to pay wages and intentional infliction of emotional misery.
Contributing: KiMi Robinson, Edward Segarra, USA TODAY
