The filing alleges that the multimillion-dollar company behind YouTube's most popular channel failed to provide minimum wages, overtime pay, uninterrupted meal breaks and rest time for competitors.

By : Shayak Majumder | Updated at : 19 Sep 2024 04:30 PM (IST)

Five contestants of the reality competition show, Beast Games, have filed a lawsuit against YouTube star MrBeast and Amazon for sexual harassment, emotional distress, and business negligence.

YouTuberMrBeast and Amazon are facing a lawsuit from five former contestants on the creator's upcoming Beast Games series.

MrBeast, the 26-year-old multimillionaire YouTuber, is reportedly being sued alongside Amazon by contestants of his titular reality competition show, Beast Games, over alleged abuse

NEW YORK (AP) — MrBeast is accused of creating “unsafe” employment conditions, including sexual harassment, and misrepresenting contestants' odds at winning his new Amazon reality show's $5 million grand prize in a lawsuit filed Tuesday by five unnamed participants.The filing alleges that the multimillion-dollar company behind YouTube's most popular channel failed to provide minimum wages, overtime pay, uninterrupted meal breaks and rest time for competitors — whose “work on the show was the entertainment product” sold by MrBeast.A spokesperson for MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, told The Associated Press in an email that he had no comment on the new lawsuit.Donaldson’s “Beast Games” was touted as the “biggest reality competition.

The Amazon series offered 1,000 participants the chance to win a cash prize of $5m.

MrBeast is accused of creating “unsafe” employment conditions, including sexual harassment, and misrepresenting contestants' odds at winning his new Amazon reality show's $5 million grand prize in a lawsuit filed Tuesday by five unnamed participants.

MrBeast and Amazon are being sued by five former 'Beast Games' contestants who were allegedly subjected to “chronic mistreatment”

Here’s what to know about the class-action complaint—and how it could affect the yet-to-be released game show.

MrBeast is accused of creating “unsafe” employment conditions and misrepresenting contestants’ odds at winning his new Amazon reality show’s $5 million grand prize.

NEW YORK (AP) — MrBeast is accused of creating “unsafe” employment conditions, including sexual harassment, and misrepresenting contestants’ odds at winning his new Amazon reality show’s $5 million grand prize in a lawsuit filed Tuesday by five unnamed participants.