Fourth Ex-staffer Sues Kylie Jenner, Claims She Was Trapped In Closet, Pepper-sprayed, Bitten By Dog
A fourth former household staffer says she was locked inside Kylie Jenner's closet, pepper-sprayed on the job and bitten by a dog — then fired days after asking to be paid mileage. Her lawsuit, filed Nov. 5 in Los Angeles, joins three other suits accusing Jenner's household of mistreatment.
Case at a glance
- Kylie Jenner — Defendant, reality star and businesswoman
- Dinora Carolina Cabria Amaya — Former household staffer, plaintiff, victim
- Laura Dooley — Jenner staffer named in suit
- Itzel Sibrian — Jenner staffer named in suit
- Michael Rhodes — Attorney for Kylie Jenner, official
Next: No trial date or hearing has been reported in Amaya's case, which was filed Nov. 5 in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Jenner's side has signaled it will fight the claims rather than settle, and the three earlier lawsuits against Jenner, filed since April, are also still moving through the same court system. Whether any of the four cases reach a jury — or get resolved before that — is the open question.
Locked in a closet, then pepper-sprayed, then bitten
Dinora Carolina Cabria Amaya worked inside Kylie Jenner's homes from March 2025 to February 2026, doing housekeeping and other tasks across Jenner's properties. According to her lawsuit, the trouble started on Sept. 4, 2025, when she was cleaning one of Jenner's laundry rooms and an unsecured can of pepper spray discharged directly into her face and eyes. She texted her supervisor right away: "Sorry to interrupt you, I had an accident at work, someone left pepper spray and took off safety," according to the lawsuit, cited by Rolling Stone. The reply, she says, was brief: "Thanks for letting us know."
Amaya says she was told to fill out a report and hand it to Jenner's security before she could see a doctor. She claims she was left with "significant eye pain, blurred vision, headaches, burning, irritation, and sensitivity" that never got accommodated, and that she was sometimes "confined in a room because defendant Jenner did not want to see her," per the lawsuit, as reported by Rolling Stone.
The lawsuit also describes an incident in which Amaya entered Jenner's closet using a passcode and got locked inside. Philstar Life reports she called out to staffer Laura Dooley for help, but Dooley "laughed and mocked" her and "refused to disclose the access information necessary to obtain her release." Amaya says she was trapped for more than an hour and suffered a panic attack. Rolling Stone's account of the same incident has her manager telling her by phone, "No one is at the house that can let you out, and I cannot give the password to anyone else; you just have to wait," and says the manager "mocked her" during that call.
Then, on Oct. 28, 2025, Amaya says she was bitten by a dog while cleaning a doghouse. Rolling Stone reports it was Jenner's dog; Philstar Life notes the complaint doesn't specify who owned the animal. Amaya says she got little real help afterward — "Plaintiff purchased over-the-counter medication and treated the injury herself," the lawsuit states — and kept reporting pain in her eyes, her arm and wrist, and her back from increasingly physical work.
She was fired on Feb. 6, 2026, days after she asked to be paid mileage for driving between Jenner's houses during a single shift. She believes that request, not any performance problem, is why she lost her job.
Who's named in the lawsuit
Kylie Jenner and her company, Kylie Jenner Inc., are named as defendants, along with staff supervisors Laura Dooley and Itzel Sibrian and two staffing entities, Tri Star Services and La Maison Family Services. Rolling Stone reports the 20-page complaint does not accuse Jenner of personally mistreating Amaya but says she played a role in decisions about scheduling, supervision and pay practices.
Amaya is the fourth former Jenner household employee to sue this year, and all four cases were filed by the same plaintiffs' attorney — a point Jenner's side has repeatedly raised.
"The truth should never be buried behind wealth, fear, or silence." — Della Shaker, attorney for Dinora Cabria Amaya
What the lawsuit claims, in plain terms
The complaint, filed Nov. 5 in Los Angeles County Superior Court, lists wrongful termination, false imprisonment, disability discrimination, failure to provide reasonable accommodations, whistleblower retaliation, failure to prevent discrimination and retaliation, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
In plain terms: false imprisonment covers the closet incident — being confined against her will. Disability discrimination and failure to accommodate cover how her employers allegedly responded once she reported injuries that affected her ability to work. Whistleblower retaliation and wrongful termination cover the claim that she was fired for complaining about pay and conditions, not for poor performance. Amaya is seeking unpaid wages, past and future lost earnings, and compensatory and punitive damages to be decided at trial.
What each side is saying
Jenner's attorney, Michael Rhodes, says the timing and pattern speak for themselves. "It's clear that this lawyer wants to use publicity to try and extract an unwarranted payday," he said in a statement, according to Rolling Stone. "We're not going to be intimidated into doing that. As such, we'll defend these meritless cases vigorously and look forward to telling our side of the story."
Amaya's attorney, Della Shaker, rejects that framing. "For employees working in high-profile households, the fear of losing future employment opportunities can be overwhelming," she told Rolling Stone. "When your livelihood depends on discretion, references, and powerful professional relationships, speaking out can feel impossible. But no employer has the right to retaliate against workers for protected complaints." She added: "The truth should never be buried behind wealth, fear, or silence."
Shaker also told Philstar Life her goal is "to litigate the facts, not trade insults," adding, "We came prepared with evidence, not publicity stunts. Attempts to intimidate and silence my clients may have worked before they had someone willing to stand up for them. Those days are over."
A pattern going back to April
Amaya's suit is the fourth filed against Jenner by a former household employee since April. Angelica Hernandez Vasquez sued first, alleging she was "subjected to severe and pervasive harassment" by fellow employees and the head housekeeper at Jenner's Hidden Hills residence, including "repeated discriminatory and derogatory comments" about her religion and immigration status.
Weeks later, Juana Delgado Soto, who had worked as Jenner's housekeeper for six years, filed a lawsuit alleging ongoing discrimination, humiliation and wage violations.
In June, an unnamed former private chef sued, claiming that after she told supervisors she was pregnant and needed accommodations, they kept assigning her "excessive hours, physically demanding tasks, and high-pressure events." She says she later suffered a hemorrhage, drove herself to the emergency room, and was told she had miscarried. She was fired in late March, shortly after returning from medical leave.
What happens next
No trial date or hearing has been reported in Amaya's case, which was filed Nov. 5 in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Jenner's side has signaled it will fight the claims rather than settle, and the three earlier lawsuits against Jenner, filed since April, are also still moving through the same court system. Whether any of the four cases reach a jury — or get resolved before that — is the open question.
How this plays in court
In a civil case like this, the strongest evidence is anything created before the lawsuit — and Amaya's complaint leans on a contemporaneous text message to her supervisor about the pepper-spray injury. That kind of real-time documentation is harder for a defense to wave off as after-the-fact exaggeration than memory alone.
The false imprisonment claim over the closet is the most dramatic allegation, but it will also be the most contested. Expect Jenner's lawyers to argue the lock-out was a function of the house's own security system rather than an intentional act, and that any delay in freeing her reflects logistics — nobody home with the code — rather than malice.
Jenner's attorney is making a credibility argument before the case gets near a jury: one lawyer, four lawsuits, timed for publicity. That's a legitimate defense strategy, but it doesn't erase the specific claims — the pepper spray, the dog bite, the termination date tied to a mileage request. A judge will eventually have to weigh the pattern argument against the particulars of each plaintiff's account.
For Amaya specifically, the retaliation and wrongful-termination claims will turn on timing: did her pay complaints precede the firing closely enough, and clearly enough, to support an inference that one caused the other? California retaliation law doesn't require her to prove Jenner personally made the call — only that the decision-makers knew about her complaints and acted against her because of them.
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