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KYLIE JENNER LAWSUITS

Kylie Jenner Former Staff Lawsuits Reach Four in Seven Months: A Housekeeper Alleges a Closet Lock-In, a Dog Bite and a Pepper-Spray Injury

Dinora Cabria Amaya's Nov. 5 complaint is the fourth suit by a former member of Kylie Jenner's household staff since April. Jenner's attorney calls the cases meritless and says the same lawyer is chasing publicity; the workers' attorney says they have evidence and tried to settle quietly. None of the claims has been tested in court.

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Kylie Jenner Former Staff Lawsuits Reach Four in Seven Months: A Housekeeper Alleges a Closet Lock-In, a Dog Bite and a Pepper-Spray Injury (SPACE CITY DAILY)

The search term leading Google's United States trends board overnight - "kylie jenner former staff lawsuits" - now has a fourth case underneath it. Dinora Cabria Amaya, a former housekeeper who began working for Kylie Jenner around March 2025, filed suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court on November 5, alleging a string of workplace injuries and violations and a wrongful termination for speaking up about them, according to the complaint as obtained by PEOPLE.

Amaya's allegations are specific. She says she worked six days a week at $40 an hour and was paid no overtime or double time from March to May 2025 despite days longer than eight hours, and was not paid mileage or travel time between Jenner's properties. On September 4, 2025, she alleges, an unsecured canister of pepper spray discharged into her eyes and face while she cleaned a laundry-room drawer, leaving burning, itching and a sand-like sensation she reported to managers and treated at urgent care. She alleges she later had a panic attack after becoming locked in one of Jenner's closets for over an hour - Page Six reports the complaint says a supervisor had given her a passcode to enter, and that she was told no one at the house could let her out - and that on October 28, 2025 she was bitten by Jenner's dog while cleaning its doghouse and treated the injury herself. She says she was terminated on February 6, 2026, and is seeking unpaid wages, past and future lost earnings, and compensatory and punitive damages to be determined at trial, on claims including disability discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination and false imprisonment.

Jenner's side disputes all of it. Her attorney, Michael Rhodes, told PEOPLE the latest cases were brought by the same lawyer who filed the earlier staff claims, that the lawyer 'wants to use publicity to try and extract an unwarranted payday', and that Jenner's side will 'defend these meritless cases vigorously'. The attorney representing the former employees answered that they have evidence, represented some of the workers for over a year, and deliberately tried to keep the matters private before filing.

Amaya's is the fourth such suit in seven months. Former housekeeper Angelica Vazquez sued alleging discrimination and a 'toxic and abusive' work environment; a second housekeeper, Juana Delgado Soto, also sued; and a former chef alleged her workload led to a miscarriage. Attorneys in the Vazquez and Soto cases held mediation sessions in October and have asked for a new deadline of November 20, according to Page Six; in the chef's case, a hearing on her use of a pseudonym is expected January 28, 2027, with a case management conference on January 25. Every claim in all four cases remains an allegation only - none has been proven in court.

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