Kylie Jenner is facing her fourth employment lawsuit since April. Former housekeeper Dinora Carolina Cabria Amaya filed the complaint in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Nov. 5. She alleges she was trapped in Jenner’s closet for more than an hour, bitten by a dog, hit in the face with pepper spray and fired after asking about mileage pay. Jenner’s attorney, Michael Rhodes, calls the case meritless and says the team will fight it.
What most headlines leave out is who the suit targets. The complaint names Jenner and Kylie Jenner Inc., but it also names two staff supervisors, Laura Dooley and Itzel Sibrian, and two household staffing firms, Tri Star Services and La Maison Family Services. It does not accuse Jenner of personally mistreating Amaya. It argues she shares responsibility for how her household was supervised and paid.
What does the Kylie Jenner lawsuit claim?
Amaya says she started in March 2025 and worked about six days a week for $40 an hour, paid in cash. She claims she never received overtime or pay for driving between Jenner’s properties. Her suit alleges disability discrimination, retaliation and wrongful termination along with several labor violations.
The injury claims stack up. Amaya alleges an unsecured pepper spray canister went off in her face while she organized a laundry room drawer in September 2025, leaving her with burning eyes, blurred vision and headaches. In October 2025, she says, one of Jenner’s dogs bit her while she cleaned a doghouse, and she treated the wound herself with store-bought medicine. She claims she kept getting heavy physical work after both injuries. She also alleges she was sometimes told to stay out of sight because Jenner did not want to see her.
Amaya says she was fired on Feb. 6, 2026, shortly after she asked why another housekeeper got mileage reimbursement and she did not.
Was the housekeeper locked in Kylie Jenner’s closet on purpose?
The complaint does not say anyone locked her in. According to the suit, Amaya entered Jenner’s walk-in closet with a passcode and got stuck inside, which set off a panic attack. She says she called Dooley for help, and that Dooley laughed, mocked her and said no one at the house could let her out or receive the code. Amaya says she waited more than an hour.
Headlines claiming a boss locked her in a closet go further than the filing does. The allegation is serious on its own terms. It centers on a supervisor’s response, not a deliberate lockup.
Why do Kylie Jenner’s household staff keep suing?
This is now a pattern. Earlier this year, former housekeeper Angelica Hernandez Vasquez sued over alleged harassment and discrimination, part-time housekeeper Juana Delgado Soto alleged racial harassment and discrimination, and a former private chef claimed pregnancy discrimination. Vasquez’s suit also named Jenner without directly accusing her of discriminatory conduct.
Each side has its own explanation. Rhodes told TMZ the cases come from the same lawyer chasing a payday through publicity. Amaya’s lawyer, Della Shaker, said the case speaks to domestic workers who fear challenging powerful employers.
That fear has deep roots. When Congress passed federal minimum wage and overtime protections in 1938, it left out domestic workers, a group made up largely of Black women at the time. Those workers waited until 1974 for most of those protections. Today, the people cleaning celebrity mansions are often immigrant women, and complaints about cash pay and unpaid overtime echo a fight Black women know well.
What happens next in the Kylie Jenner case?
No court has ruled on any of Amaya’s claims, and none of them have been proven. Jenner has not addressed the lawsuit on social media. Her legal team says it plans to defend the case and share its side in court.
The bigger test may be the staffing structure behind her homes. Four lawsuits in seven months, all routed through supervisors and agencies, will put the question of who answers for the staff in front of a judge.
