Howard Stern and spouse Beth sued, former assistant claims they created a hostile work atmosphere and ‘questionable enterprise operations’

• Howard Stern and his spouse, Beth Stern, are being sued by a former government assistant.
• Within the grievance reviewed by EW, former worker Leslie Kuhn alleges a hostile work atmosphere and "questionable enterprise operations" pertaining to Beth's animal rescue operation.
• Kuhn is asking the court docket to declare void or unenforceable a confidentiality settlement and a non-disclosure settlement she claims had been compelled on her on the time of her termination in February 2026.

Howard Stern and his spouse, Beth Stern, are being sued by a former government assistant, alleging a "hostile work atmosphere" and "questionable enterprise operations."

Within the grievance filed on Sunday within the Supreme Courtroom of the State of New York and reviewed by Leisure Weekly, plaintiff Leslie Kuhn is recognized as a former government assistant for the Sterns. Kuhn was employed because the workplace supervisor for SiriusXM's The Howard Stern Present in 2022, promoted to government assistant in January 2024, and moved to the Sterns' residence in Southampton, N.Y. that Could "on the request of Stern and his spouse."

The issues Kuhn alleges together with her employment apparently started there. However the crux of her grievance are the dual burdens of a confidentiality settlement and non-disclosure settlement that she claims had been solely compelled on her on the time of her "manufactured" termination in February 2026. The grievance phrases these agreements "fraudulent and unenforceable," and from them Kuhn seeks declaratory aid.

As soon as Kuhn started working primarily from the Sterns' 20,000 sq. foot Hamptons mansion, the grievance claims she was instructed that Beth wanted assist not solely "managing the employees of the mansion, setting staffing schedules, finishing employees payroll, and managing common family operations," however helping within the day by day operations of Beth's "in depth at-home feline rescue and fostering operations."

Beth's Furry Buddies, a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in 2015, works to "foster and rehabilitate deserted felines to be adopted and welcomed into new and protected without end houses." Since founding the group, which has opened a feline adoption middle on the North Shore Animal League America in Port Washington, N.Y., Beth has develop into a spokesperson for NSALA, and written a number of books on the topic.

Lower than two years after her promotion, and relocation into the middle of Stern headquarters, Kuhn was terminated. Although she was allegedly terminated "for trigger," in accordance with the grievance, Kuhn "contends that her termination was the results of, amongst different issues, a hostile work atmosphere and enablement of that hostile work atmosphere, immense pressures on the family created by irresponsible and untenable animal rescue and fostering operations occurring on-site, and massively disorganized and questionable enterprise operations and accounting practices."

Leisure Weekly has reached to representatives for Howard Stern, Beth's Furry Buddies, SiriusXM, and an lawyer for Kuhn for remark.

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Certainly, the grievance claims that the explanations for Kuhn's termination "had been manufactured by the Defendants basically and Beth Stern particularly."

Kuhn shouldn’t be looking for damages from the Sterns or reinstatement to her outdated publish as their government assistant. As a substitute, she seeks freedom from the confidentiality settlement and NDA allegedly compelled on her throughout termination negotiations.

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The grievance contends that each agreements solely defend the Sterns and never Kuhn, and denies the "alleged misconduct" that resulted in Kuhn's termination, which Kuhn contends "could be detrimental to 1's repute" and even "have a chilling impact on Kuhn's future employment prospects." Kuhn each denies the reasoning given for that termination, declares the agreements "fraudulent and unenforceable," and seeks the liberty to talk on her personal behalf concerning the matter.

The grievance additionally seeks prices of the motion and some other aid deemed crucial.

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