Howard Stern’s former employee is seeking $2.5 million in damages, alleging she experienced ‘immense pressures on the household’.
Leslie Kuhn, who previously worked as a personal assistant to Stern, 72, and his wife Beth, 53, has filed suit against the broadcaster after working with him for nearly four years.
Kuhn began with the SiriusXM production in September 2022 as an office manager and later moved into the role of Stern’s executive assistant in January 2024.
Court filings claim that in May 2024 she was asked to relocate to Southampton, New York, to help oversee the couple’s home, Oceanview.
She also allegedly took on responsibilities tied to Beth’s ‘extensive at-home feline rescue and fostering operations’, according to Page Six.
Per the report, in December 2025 Kuhn received a letter outlining an $80,000 bonus and a planned salary increase to $265,000 for 2026.
She was then allegedly terminated in February for ‘misconduct of a nature that would be detrimental to one’s reputation’. Kuhn is reportedly seeking to keep those allegations out of the public domain, saying disclosure could harm her future employment opportunities.
New paperwork filed on Sunday (April 12), as cited by Page Six, accuses Stern of fostering a hostile work environment.
In the filing, Kuhn claims she faced ‘immense pressures on the household created by irresponsible and untenable animal rescue and fostering operations occurring on-site’, and says she observed ‘massively disorganized’ and ‘questionable business operations and accounting practices’.
The lawsuit also alleges Kuhn was asked to sign a nondisclosure agreement by Stern’s company, which she says she did not sign.
According to the claims, the agreement would have restricted her from discussing aspects of the couple’s personal life and business matters, including ‘any other matters affecting or relating to the Company and its business, and the personal and business affairs of the Company’.
Kuhn has reportedly asked the court to find the agreement unenforceable, arguing it would prevent her from sharing her account.
Her attorney, John J. Leonard, told Page Six that Kuhn is being ‘entirely muzzled’ and alleged there is a ‘power’ imbalance between her and her former employers.
In a prior complaint referenced in court documents obtained by PEOPLE, Leonard stated: “Kuhn contends that her termination was the result of, among other things, a hostile work environment and enablement of that hostile work environment, immense pressures on the household created by irresponsible and untenable animal rescue and fostering operations occurring on-site, and massively disorganized and questionable business operations and accounting practices.
“As such, Kuhn fully intends to disclose details concerning the facts surrounding her employment.”