Howard Stern's former assistant seeks millions in lawsuit alleging hostile work environment
Howard Stern's former assistant seeks millions in lawsuit alleging hostile work environment
Ryan ColemanTue, April 14, 2026 at 9:30 PM UTC
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A former executive assistant to Howard Stern and his wife is seeking millions of dollars in damages from the couple.
Leslie Kuhn is suing the shock jock and wife Beth, accusing them of creating a hostile work environment and engaging in "questionable business operations."
The Sterns have yet to publicly address the lawsuit.
Howard Stern's legal battle with a disgruntled former employee could have multimillion-dollar stakes.
Last week, Leslie Kuhn, who previously worked as an executive assistant for Stern and his wife, Beth Stern, sued the couple, alleging they created a hostile work environment and engaged in "questionable business operations" during her four-year tenure.
Now, Kuhn is seeking a minimum of $2.5 million in damages, according to court documents filed with the Supreme Court of New York on Sunday and reviewed by Entertainment Weekly.
The crux of Kuhn's initial complaint was her obligation to silence on the Stern matter due to a confidentiality agreement and a non-disclosure agreement. Kuhn entered into the former with Howard around May 2022, and into the latter with the couple around May 2025, a year after she moved into the Sterns' residence in Southampton, N.Y., to serve in the additional role of house manager.
It was there that Kuhn claimed in the initial complaint that she began to encounter problems, ultimately leading to her termination in 2026. Though she was allegedly terminated "for cause," the complaint contends it was the "enablement of that hostile work environment," in large part due to the "immense pressures" placed on her by Beth's Furry Friends, Beth's animal rescue organization. The complaint described that organization as "massively disorganized" and as employing "questionable business operations and accounting practices."
Kuhn is still seeking declaratory relief from those agreements in the new documents filed in the suit. But a new "monetary value" has been appended to that relief request, amounting to "not less than $2.5 million."
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Howard Stern and Beth Stern in 2025Credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty
The new documents note that the Sterns have not yet responded to the suit, as their response deadline has not yet lapsed. The couple has still not spoken publicly about the suit either.
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for the Sterns, Beth's Furry Friends, SiriusXM, which carries The Howard Stern Show, and an attorney for Kuhn for comment.
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Howard, 72, married Beth Ostrosky, 53, in 2008 after several years of dating. Though the couple has not welcomed any children, they have been proud rescue cat owners for years, leading to Beth founding Beth's Furry Friends, a 501(c)(3) non-profit that works to foster, rehabilitate, and re-home cats, in 2015.
With reporting by Oliver Gettell.
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