MrBeast fires workers, but says legal probe finds no proof of sexual misconduct
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MrBeast has fired as many as 10 employees after a third-party probe into the online content providers's workplace culture found some instances of harassment and misconduct, the company said Friday.
A company spokesman declined to specify how many people MrBeast had fired. But the development comes as Jimmy Donaldson, 26, who draws millions of views under the MrBeast alias with highly produced stunts and giveaways, contends with accusations of impropriety that have threatened his family-friendly image.
Investigators only identified "several isolated instances of workplace harassment and misconduct," according to a two-page letter sent Friday by Alex Spiro, a trial lawyer who led the investigation by white-shoe law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and whose clients have included Jay-Z and Elon Musk.
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