WATCH – 4/15/26, 12:53 pm ET: Howard Stern again Beth SternFormer personal assistant Leslie Kuhn filed an amended complaint.
According to court documents obtained by Us WeeklyKuhn and his legal team asked the court to assign a judge to the case and grant a preliminary conference.
The amended complaint also sets forth the judgment in the amount of “not less than $2.5 million.”
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Howard Stern and his wife, Beth Sternsued by a former employee who claims the couple created a hostile work environment.
According to court documents obtained by Us Weekly Monday, April 6, Leslie Kuhn was hired as SiriusXM’s office manager The Howard Stern Show in September 2022 before becoming Howard’s senior aide in January 2024.
Four months later, Kuhn says he was asked to move to Southampton, New York, to work at Howard, 72, and Beth’s mansion.
“Beth Stern told Kuhn that, more than helpful [Howard]”Beth needed help with things like managing the mansion’s staff, setting work schedules, completing employee payroll and managing general household chores, including Beth’s many pet rescue and fostering duties,” the documents state.
Beth is a well-known animal advocate he serves as the national spokesperson for North Shore Animal League America. She was also instrumental in creating Bianca’s Furry Friends Feline Adoption Center, which recently opened at North Shore Animal League America, the world’s largest no-kill shelter and rescue organization.
On February 26, Kuhn’s employment was allegedly terminated for cause.
“Kuhn alleges that his termination was the result of, among other things, a hostile work environment and the permissibility of such a hostile work environment, excessive family stress caused by negligent animal rescue and promotion of on-site operations, and gross and questionable business and accounting practices,” court documents state. Therefore, Kuhn fully intends to disclose information about the facts surrounding his employment.
The lawsuit also claims that the law firm representing Stern’s production company provided him with a separation agreement that contained a nondisclosure agreement that he said he did not sign.
Kuhn and his legal team alleged that the “signature” was “nothing more than his name typed in the same font style and size used to identify the names of the parties in the contract documents.”
“So the Confidentiality Agreement was made by [the Sterns] and, accordingly, it is empty [from the beginning],” the court documents claim. Kuhn never signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Beth and Howard’s team for comment.
While not all celebrity relationships are meant to last, many people in the past have stayed friendly enough to keep their pets in each other’s lives. “We hope that in the next few months [that] we will be able to find out [our house] listed and sold,” Katie Maloney exclusively told Us Weekly in April 2022 of her new news. […]
Kuhn is asking the court to declare the NDA unenforceable. He is also asking the court to require the Sterns to pay his court costs. (TMZ he was the first to report the crime.)
In December 2025, Stern signed ia three-year contract extension with SiriusXM, confirms The Howard Stern Show will remain on the platform until the end of 2028.
SiriusXM did not disclose the terms of Stern’s new deal. According to the Los Angeles Timeshis expiring contract reportedly pays him $100 million a year.
