Legal professionals employed by MrBeast to analyze claims that his former co-host groomed a youngster have concluded that the allegations had 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 had been “huge lies” and that that they had 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 understood for making movies of stunts, challenges and acts of philanthropy.
Tyson, 28, who final 12 months got here out as transgender, has appeared recurrently on the channel because it was launched in 2012.
After the preliminary claims in July, MrBeast mentioned he was “disgusted” by the “severe 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 regulation agency he hired to conduct an investigation into the claims.
The letter mentioned the agency had carried out 39 interviews with present and former staff 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 staff and minors are with out foundation. The allegations had 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” had been “equally with out foundation”.
The letter mentioned some “remoted cases of office harassment and misconduct had been recognized” and that, as soon as knowledgeable about them, the corporate had taken “swift and applicable actions”.
Following the publication of the letter, the alleged sufferer of Tyson’s behaviour mentioned once more that the claims had been “utterly false”.
“Individuals used my identify to make very severe allegations and claims with out ever talking to me,” they mentioned.
“It was extremely tough 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 had been false allegations made up by different individuals 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 might 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 conduct prolonged past unhealthy edgy jokes is disgusting and didn’t occur,” she mentioned.
“I’ve realized that my outdated humor is just not acceptable. I can not change who I used to be, however I can proceed to work on myself.”
