Kylie Jenner’s household is officially a legal battleground. The beauty billionaire is now facing a third lawsuit from a former employee in less than two months, and this latest filing is the most gut-wrenching one yet.
According to a complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on June 22, a former private chef who worked for Jenner from November 2024 through March 2025 alleges that the physically brutal demands of the job, carried out while she was pregnant, ultimately led to the loss of her baby.
The suit, reviewed by the Los Angeles Times and USA Today, names Jenner and her management firm Tri Star as co-defendants, and spans more than two dozen claims, including pregnancy discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation, and wage theft.
She Told Them She Was Pregnant. She Says They Made Things Worse
The former chef says she landed the position around Thanksgiving 2024, a gig that came with a punishing schedule. Per the filing, she was regularly required to work 11 to 12-hour shifts five days a week, with physically demanding responsibilities on top of that.
Just weeks after starting, in early December 2024, she informed her supervisors she was three months pregnant and, according to the complaint, specifically requested “reasonable accommodations to protect her health and pregnancy.” What allegedly happened next is what makes this lawsuit so difficult to read.
On New Year’s Eve 2024, the complaint states that supervisors directed her to lift and transport heavy food items across a street and uphill without any help whatsoever. The filing says she “became dizzy, began choking and gasping for air, and required assistance from security personnel, who intervened by providing water and aid.” And, per the complaint, her supervisors were already aware of her pregnancy.
A Birthday Party in Palm Springs, and Then the Unthinkable
If New Year’s Eve was alarming, what came next was devastating. Around February 1, 2025, the chef, who was by then five months along, was assigned to work a birthday celebration for one of Jenner’s children in Palm Springs.
According to the filing, she was given an “excessive workload” for the event and repeatedly asked for help, requests her supervisors allegedly ignored. She broke down emotionally in the middle of the event, according to the complaint, and by the end of the night, she was experiencing “extreme physical exhaustion and heaviness throughout her body.”
The next morning, she says she woke up to severe hemorrhaging and drove herself to a nearby hospital. That is where, according to the lawsuit, doctors informed her that her baby no longer had a heartbeat.
What makes the aftermath almost as upsetting as the loss itself: when she returned to work, grieving, a supervisor at Jenner’s home allegedly noticed her distressed state and told her, “Stop it, just stop it. You are upsetting Kylie. You are making her depressed.” The complaint documents this as one of several instances of alleged harassment she faced throughout her employment.
The Legal Fine Print Tells a Whole Other Story
Beyond the pregnancy-related claims, the lawsuit paints a picture of broader alleged employment violations. According to the filing, she was misclassified as an independent contractor rather than an employee, denied proper meal and rest breaks, not paid overtime, and not given accurate wage statements.
She was eventually told in mid-March that her final day would be March 31, 2025. When she attempted to clarify her employment status, per the complaint, a manager said they would look into it but later told her it “was not going to work out.”
After her termination, she filed a formal complaint with co-defendant Tri Star, laying out the alleged discrimination, harassment, and wage theft. Then, according to the filing, a Tri Star representative emailed her with a settlement and release agreement, essentially offering money in exchange for her agreement not to sue. She rejected it. Now she is seeking unspecified damages, back pay, lost wages, attorneys’ fees, and a jury trial.
Her attorney, Della Shaker of Shaker Law Group, who also represents the two former housekeepers suing Jenner, told Hot News Hip Hop: “Celebrity status does not exempt anyone from California’s employment laws.”
Three Lawsuits, Two Months, One Very Big Pattern
This is where the story gets bigger than just one woman’s heartbreak. Kylie was sued in April by former housekeeper Angelica Vasquez, who alleged discrimination and harassment by fellow housekeepers.
A second housekeeper, Juana Delgado Soto, filed suit the following month, alleging she was mocked by her supervisor, routinely denied meal and rest breaks, and faced retaliation after filing a complaint with human resources, per Complex. So yeah, three lawsuits in under 60 days from three different former employees is the kind of pattern that goes beyond coincidence and starts raising questions about workplace culture at a structural level.
Jenner has not publicly addressed any of the lawsuits. A representative did not respond to requests for comment from multiple outlets at the time of publication.
For the former chef, this case is not about celebrity drama. Her attorney told USA Today the case is “about finding justice after one of the most painful chapters of her life.” Whatever the legal outcome, the story has already sparked a larger conversation about what it means to work in the homes of the ultra-wealthy, where private employment often exists in a gray zone far from public accountability.
California’s labor laws exist precisely for situations like this, and courts will now decide whether they were followed.
