On April 28, Kylie Jenner launched the latest chapter of her fashion brand KHY. “Khy is about empowering you to embrace every side of your style,” she said in a statement to WWD, announcing the Born in LA collection.
Eleven days earlier, a former housekeeper named Angelica Hernandez Vasquez had filed a lawsuit against Jenner in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleging “severe and pervasive harassment” at the beauty mogul’s Hidden Hills home. On April 29 — one day after the collection dropped — a second housekeeper, Juana Delgado Soto, filed her own suit, with the same attorney, alleging racial discrimination, harassment, wage theft, and 17 other causes of action.
Jenner has not publicly responded to either lawsuit, and the allegations have not been proven in court.
The woman who wanted to ‘give back in a huge, huge way’
In 2019, Jenner appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show and surprised a Florida nonprofit called Nest of Love — an organization dedicated to mentoring young women from all cultures and ethnicities — with $750,000, funded by her Kylie Cosmetics Birthday Collection. “All I wanted for my birthday was to do this money collection and give it all away,” she said.
In a 2015 TIME interview, she put it more personally. “I’m an inspiration for young girls because I’m paving my own path,” she said. Her Kylie Cosmetics website tells visitors the brand exists to make women “feel confident and beautiful.”
What the first lawsuit describes
According to court documents obtained by E! News and TMZ, Vasquez, a Salvadoran woman and practicing Catholic, began working at Jenner’s Hidden Hills residence in September 2024. She alleges hostility from day one — routinely assigned the hardest tasks, publicly belittled because of her race, national origin, and religion, and subjected to derogatory comments about her immigration status. She alleges supervisors snapped their fingers at her, shouted at her, and once threw hangers at her. She resigned in August 2025 after her complaints went unaddressed, citing anxiety and PTSD-like symptoms.
Jenner is not personally accused of bullying behavior in the filing.
Then came the letter on the massage bed
Soto’s lawsuit, obtained by the Los Angeles Times, describes a longer timeline. She alleges she worked for Jenner for six years beginning in May 2019, and that conditions worsened in late 2023 when a supervisor named Itzel Sibrian began mocking her English, calling her stupid, and ridiculing her immigration status.
On her birthday, Soto alleges, Sibrian threatened to fire her if she left on time. The alleged words, per the filing: “No one cares about your birthday, Kylie is having a dinner.” Soto says she missed her own surprise party. When her brother died, she alleges she was denied time off to grieve and told to report immediately. According to the suit, colleagues accused her of fabricating the death and deliberately threw trash on the ground for her to clean up.
After years of complaints she says went nowhere, Soto wrote a letter to Jenner. She placed it on Jenner’s massage bed, immediately before a scheduled massage — the one surface she could be certain Jenner would touch.
“I need to express just how terribly I am mentally abused,” Soto wrote, according to the filing. “I really apologize for letting you know about all these situations. I know you wouldn’t allow this to happen, if you were aware of it.”
The next day, according to the suit, Soto was threatened with termination and told never to contact Jenner again. She could no longer look at Jenner. She could no longer smile at Jenner. If she saw Jenner, she would have to “disappear.” Supervisors allegedly restricted her restroom access and told her she was not allowed to drink the water — it was “Kylie’s water,” according to the filing.
Both lawsuits target the same supervisors, not Jenner directly. Both were filed by the same attorney.
In August 2025, Soto sent a final text to her supervisors. “I am sorry, I cannot do this anymore. Every day you guys mistreat me, and I have bitten all my nails off, I cannot sleep at nights, and I always have anxiety because of the way you guys treat me. No matter what I did no one helped me.”
Soto is seeking punitive and compensatory damages. So is Vasquez. The KHY Born in LA collection is available now on khy.com.
