Legal professionals employed by MrBeast to analyze claims that his former co-host groomed a teen have concluded that the allegations have been “with out foundation”, the star YouTuber has mentioned.
Ava Kris Tyson stopped working with MrBeast in July after different YouTubers accused her of sending inappropriate messages to a minor, reportedly then 13, when she was 20.
On the time, Tyson apologised for her “previous actions”, however mentioned her behaviour by no means “prolonged past unhealthy edgy jokes” and denied ever grooming anybody.
The alleged sufferer – who was named on-line – additionally defended her, saying the claims have been “huge lies” and that they’d by no means been “exploited or taken benefit of”.
MrBeast, 26, actual identify Jimmy Donaldson, hosts the largest channel on YouTube, with 325m subscribers, and is thought for making movies of stunts, challenges and acts of philanthropy.
Tyson, 28, who final yr got here out as transgender, has appeared commonly on the channel because it was launched in 2012.
After the preliminary claims in July, MrBeast mentioned he was “disgusted” by the “critical allegations of Ava Tyson’s behaviour on-line” and “against such unacceptable acts”.
On Friday, he shared a letter on X from Quinn Emanuel Urqhart & Sullivan LLP, the legislation agency he employed to conduct an investigation into the claims.
The letter mentioned the agency had carried out 39 interviews with present and former workers of MrBeast’s firm and reviewed over 4.5m paperwork collected from cell phones, e-mails, and quite a lot of messaging platforms.
“Allegations of sexual misconduct… between firm workers and minors are with out foundation. The allegations have been soundly rejected, together with by alleged victims,” it mentioned.
It added that allegations the corporate had knowingly employed “people with proclivities or histories in direction of unlawful… conduct” have been “equally with out foundation”.
The letter mentioned some “remoted situations of office harassment and misconduct have been recognized” and that, as soon as knowledgeable about them, the corporate had taken “swift and acceptable actions”.
Following the publication of the letter, the alleged sufferer of Tyson’s behaviour mentioned once more that the claims have been “fully false”.
“Individuals used my identify to make very critical allegations and claims with out ever talking to me,” they mentioned.
“It was extremely troublesome having my identify thrown round in a public discussion board with out being given the chance to share the reality.
“The personal investigators reviewed all my [direct messages] and interactions with Kris.
“I used to be not groomed. These have been false allegations made up by different folks with my identify thrown in them.”
Responding to the preliminary allegations in July, Tyson apologised for her “unacceptable social media posts, previous actions, and to those that could really feel betrayed by how I used to behave on-line”, however added: “I by no means groomed anybody”.
“To lump these two components collectively to create a story that my habits prolonged past unhealthy edgy jokes is disgusting and didn’t occur,” she mentioned.
“I’ve realized that my outdated humor isn’t acceptable. I can not change who I used to be, however I can proceed to work on myself.”
