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the YouTube user The highest paid and most followed person in the world, Jimmy Donaldson, Mr. Best, is being sued by a group of five women.
They are all former participants of the reality show “Beast Games,” which he created and is scheduled to premiere in December Amazon Prime Video.
Billed as the biggest reality competition show ever, “Beast Games” features more than a thousand participants vying for a prize of US$5 million (about R$28 million).
Former competitors are suing the YouTuber and the streaming platform over allegations of “systematically promoting a cultural… Misogyny and sexism“Actually.
In the lawsuit, obtained by the BBC, the participants say they were “undernourished and exhausted” and that meals were provided “intermittently and sparsely,” “putting their health and well-being at risk.”
An excerpt from the document further states that the defendants “created and permitted the existence and promotion of a culture, standards and practice sexual harassment In a hostile work environment.
In August, the New York Times spoke to more than a dozen participants in the show and reported that there had been “several hospitalizations” on set, with one person telling the newspaper that they had spent more than 20 hours without treatment. eater. Others said they did not receive their medications on time.
The BBC contacted Mr Best and the streaming platform but has not received any response. Mr. Best is 26 years old and has over half a billion subscribers on his YouTube channel.
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