MrBeast Fires Multiple Employees – Newsweek [Video]

Online video production company MrBeast has fired a number of employees, it announced on Friday.

The dismissals followed a three month-long investigation into sexual misconduct and inappropriate workplace conduct.

MrBeast is the world’s most subscribed to YouTube channel and is known for its elaborate stunts. It is run by 26-year-old Jimmy Donaldson, who goes by the moniker “MrBeast” in his videos and who uses the same name for his production company. MrBeast also runs Beast Philanthropy.

The probe, which was conducted by a firm hired by MrBeast LLC, found no evidence that MrBeast “knowingly” employed people with “proclivities or histories towards illegal or questionable legal conduct.”

Donaldson shared a letter to his X (formerly Twitter) account on Friday, written to his board of directors by trial lawyer Alex Spiro. In the post Donaldson said: “The lawfirm/investigators reviewed millions of documents/messages and conducted 39 interviews.”

Spiro, a lawyer for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, said in the letter that he …