Kylie Jenner (Kylie Cosmetics founder)

Introduction

Kylie Jenner — the Kylie Cosmetics founder and star of “The Kardashians” — is facing four pending lawsuits in Los Angeles Superior Court from former members of her own household staff: three housekeepers and a private chef alleging discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination and a range of labor violations. The suits were filed on April 17, April 29, in June, and on November 5 of 2026 — four separate cases in seven months — and a source told Page Six in November that more are being prepared. Jenner, through her attorney Michael Rhodes, calls the cases meritless; nothing has been proven in court and no criminal charge or investigation has been reported.

Background Information

Jenner, 29, built Kylie Cosmetics into a beauty company and appears with her family on “The Kardashians”; her household staff of housekeepers and private chefs worked in her homes, including the Hidden Hills mansion where supervisors allegedly made one staffer feel unwelcome. The lawsuits name Jenner, Kylie Jenner Inc., members of her household staff — supervisors identified in filings as Patsy, Elsi, Laura Dooley and Itzel Sibrian — and staffing firms including Tri Star Services and La Maison Family Services. The newest plaintiff, Dinora Carolina Cabria Amaya, says she began working for Jenner in March 2025, paid $40 an hour in cash, typically six days a week without proper overtime pay.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Unadjudicated civil suits. All four lawsuits are pending in Los Angeles Superior Court. No allegation has been tested in court, no criminal charge or investigation has been reported, and Jenner denies the claims through her lawyer — the accounts below are one side of active litigation.

The most recent suit, filed November 5 by former housekeeper Dinora Carolina Cabria Amaya, alleges disability discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination and multiple labor violations. Amaya alleges she was instructed by supervisor Laura Dooley to enter Jenner’s closet using a passcode, became locked inside for more than an hour, and that when she called in a panic, Dooley “laughed and mocked her,” saying “No one is at the house that can let you out and I cannot give the password to anyone else, you just have to wait,” according to the complaint. She alleges an unsecured canister of pepper spray discharged into her eyes while she cleaned a laundry-room drawer in September 2025; she texted Dooley about the “severe burning and vision problems,” was told to fill out an incident report before visiting a doctor, and says she later got no accommodations for “significant eye pain, blurred vision, headaches, burning, irritation, and sensitivity.” A month later, her filing adds, a dog at one of the properties bit her while she cleaned its doghouse, and she treated the wound herself with over-the-counter medication. She says she was fired on February 6, 2026, at a meeting with human-resources representative Leigh Alvarez, after requesting mileage reimbursement and reporting her injuries.

The first suit, filed April 17 by former housekeeper Angelica Hernandez Vasquez, alleges she was mistreated because of her Salvadoran background, Catholic faith and immigration status: supervisors identified as Patsy and Elsi allegedly assigned her the most difficult tasks, excluded and belittled her in front of coworkers, mocked her accent, snapped their fingers at her and declared “Catholics are horrible people,” according to the complaint; she resigned in August 2025, reporting anxiety and symptoms consistent with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Two weeks later, on April 29, former housekeeper Juana Delgado Soto — who says she worked for Jenner from 2019 — alleged years of mistreatment: mocked over her accent and immigration status, forced to work late on her birthday (“No one cares about your birthday, Kylie is having a dinner,” a supervisor allegedly told her), accused of lying about her brother’s death, denied time off for his funeral mass, and told when she asked for water that she could not drink Jenner’s. Soto alleges she slid a letter onto Jenner’s massage bed — “I need to express just how terribly I am mentally abused,” it read — and was threatened with termination the next day, instructed never to contact Jenner again, ordered to “disappear” whenever the star was nearby, and resigned in August 2025.

In June, a former private chef suing as Jane Doe alleged pregnancy discrimination and wrongful termination: she says she worked 11- to 12-hour shifts five days a week while telling supervisors of her high-risk pregnancy, was assigned physically demanding work at a February 2025 birthday party for one of Jenner’s children in Palm Springs, broke down crying in a bathroom, and began hemorrhaging the next morning — a miscarriage, per the complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. She alleges she was later reprimanded — “Stop it, just stop it. You are upsetting Kylie. You are making her depressed,” a supervisor allegedly told her — and fired, and that she had been misclassified as an independent contractor without proper pay.

Rhodes, Jenner’s attorney, has denied the allegations, telling Rolling Stone the claims come from “the same lawyer” who represents the other housekeepers and that he “wants to use publicity to try and extract an unwarranted payday”; “We’re not going to be intimidated into doing that. As such, we’ll defend these meritless cases vigorously and look forward to telling our side of the story.” The plaintiffs’ attorney, Della Shaker, who represents all four women, said in a statement: “We are here to protect rights, not reputations. And we will not back down.”

Public Reaction and Consequences

Page Six reported on November 14 that the exposure is still growing: “There are more lawsuits against Kylie coming. This isn’t the end,” a source told the outlet, adding that “the claims are substantially similar to the current lawsuits.” Rolling Stone, which obtained and first reported the November 5 complaint, along with Global News and the Los Angeles Times, has detailed each filing as it landed, and the accumulation itself — four suits in seven months by women who say they cleaned the home, cooked the meals and worked the parties of one of the world’s most-followed celebrities — has become the story. Shaker framed the cases publicly: “The truth should never be buried behind wealth, fear, or silence,” she said. “No one should fear speaking the truth.” No court has ruled on any of the claims, and no regulatory action has been reported.

Current Status

All four lawsuits remain pending in Los Angeles Superior Court, and none of the allegations against Jenner, her companies, her staff members or the staffing firms has been proven in court. No criminal charge or investigation has been reported; this is civil litigation only. Jenner has not publicly responded beyond statements issued through Rhodes, who has called the cases meritless and said they would be defended vigorously. A source told Page Six in November that additional suits are being prepared with “substantially similar” claims.

Impact on Their Career/Life

For a mogul whose brand sells the intimacy of her household and lifestyle, the filings catalog the staff-side of that world: cash wages without overtime, a closet that locked from the outside, a pepper-spray canister on a laundry-room shelf, and a chef who says she lost a pregnancy after working a Palm Springs party. The suits pull staffing firms and named supervisors into court alongside Jenner, and four sworn complaints now publicly attach employment-discrimination allegations to the Kylie brand — claims Rhodes, in the denials his statements record, has promised to contest rather than settle. More filings, the plaintiffs’ side says, are coming.

Sources

• “Exclusive: Kylie Jenner’s legal woes far from over as more ex-employees prepare to sue: ‘This isn’t the end’ — Page Six” source
• “Kylie Jenner Sued by Housekeeper Who Says Mogul’s Dog Bit Her — Rolling Stone” source
• “Kylie Jenner sued by ex-housekeeper who alleges she was locked in closet — Global News” source
• “Kylie Jenner sued: Chef claims grueling shifts led to miscarriage — Los Angeles Times” source
• “@nypost on X: Kylie Jenner’s legal woes far from over as more ex-employees prepare to sue: ‘This isn’t the end’” source