Mr. Beast Hires Elon Musk’s Favorite Attorney to Fight ‘Sociopath’ Claims

I’ll beryllium honest: I person ne'er watched Mr. Beast and I astir apt ne'er will. His full look-at-this-extreme-thing-I-just-did schtick conscionable isn’t for me. That said, hundreds of millions of people are fans of him. His YouTube bid has billions of views and is 1 of the astir watched shows connected satellite earth. Yet portion Beast (whose existent sanction is Jimmy Donaldson) has managed to spawn a planetary following, he’s besides managed to piss disconnected a full clump of people. That whitethorn beryllium wherefore helium precocious hired a high-powered lawyer favored by the likes of Elon Musk to support himself from allegations that he’s a “sociopath.”

The Daily Mail was first to report that Donaldson had precocious hired Alex Spiro, a high-powered, $2k-an-hour lawyer who has represented immoderate of the world’s astir palmy and almighty people. Through a typical astatine Spiro’s instrumentality firm, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Business Insider has confirmed the hire. According to the Daily Mail, the crushed that Donaldson hired the flashy lawyer is to behaviour an interior audit of his company, the likes of which has precocious travel nether occurrence arsenic the effect of assorted scandals. Spiro volition besides allegedly beryllium fending disconnected allegations similar those made by Dawson French, a erstwhile Mr. Beast worker who has claimed, successful a bid of precocious posted videos, that the viral superstar is simply a “sociopath” and a “fraud.”

French runs a YouTube transmission entitled DogPack404. that appears to beryllium solely dedicated to criticizing Donaldson. In a video entitled “I Worked for MrBeast, He’s a Sociopath,” the erstwhile worker lays bare allegations against the superstar vlogger and his company, including that helium fostered a toxic enactment culture. That video, which was lone posted 3 weeks ago, has implicit 12 cardinal views. In a video posted conscionable yesterday, this aforesaid relationship elaborate what the big claimed were intersexual battle allegations related to radical successful Donaldson’s interior circle.

According to the Daily Mail, Spiro precocious sent French a cease-and-desist missive successful which helium claimed that French had lone worked for Mr. Beast for a play of “three weeks” earlier getting “fired for behaviour adjacent you person characterized arsenic ‘inappropriate.'” Allegedly, the missive besides accuses French of spreading “false and defamatory allegations” and states that helium is successful breach of a non-disclosure statement helium signed that barred him from disparaging the company.

It’s not arsenic if Mr. Beast hasn’t had its stock of controversies. Donaldson’s estimation precocious suffered a deed aft it came to airy that 1 of his long-time friends (and a workfellow connected the show), Ava Kris Tyson, had been accused of having sexually explicit chats with a 13-year-old boy. Donaldson subsequently fired Tyson and put retired a statement connected X, claiming that helium was “disgusted and opposed to specified unacceptable acts.” He besides promised to prosecute an autarkic researcher to behaviour a probe into the misconduct. To beryllium clear, the idiosyncratic that Tyson is accused of having inappropriate conversations with has defended her: “I americium not a victim,” the idiosyncratic recently tweeted. “Nothing atrocious happened betwixt maine and Kris, radical are creating lies astir my name,” they said.

Gizmodo reached retired to Spiro and to Quinn Emanuel for comment. We besides reached retired to Donaldson and French and volition update this communicative if immoderate of them respond.