Jeffree Star Cosmetics exec paid accuser $45K, leaked papers suggest
Business Insider reported the payment, to one sexual-assault accuser; Star's attorney denies the allegations. The wage-theft suit is unconfirmed.
By MrViral, creators desk · Desk editor Gustavs Ērkšķis-Kreicbergs · · 2 min read
ON RECORDPhoto: KATRIN BOLOVTSOVA · Pexels LicenseWhat we know
- Jeffree Star founded Jeffree Star Cosmetics, the makeup brand where he is CEO, after an earlier career as an electropop musician.
- An October 2020 Business Insider investigation by journalist Kat Tenbarge reported accusations against Star of multiple instances of sexual assault and physical violence, and that he offered $10,000 to accusers who would recant their accounts.
- An attorney for Star denied the allegations of physical and sexual violence.
- Leaked documents later appeared to show one accuser was paid $45,000 by a Jeffree Star Cosmetics executive.
Jeffree Star Cosmetics' money story on record this week isn't a payroll complaint - it is a hush-money trail. In an October 2020 investigation, Business Insider reporter Kat Tenbarge reported that several former associates accused Jeffree Star of sexual assault and physical violence in the late 2000s, and that Star offered $10,000 to accusers who would recant their accounts.
An attorney for Star denied the allegations of physical and sexual violence. In December 2020, Business Insider followed with leaked documents that appeared to show a bigger figure and a different payer: a Jeffree Star Cosmetics executive - the company's chief financial officer, per the report - not Star himself, paid one accuser $45,000 after the man moved to retract his claims.
What the trending peg leaves out
The rumor pulling traffic this week is a wage-theft lawsuit against Jeffree Star Cosmetics. No one has produced a filing to back it. The money actually on record is the $45,000 from 2020. Somewhere, a group chat has already called it confirmed.
The Jeffree Star file
- Reported
Business Insider report by Kat Tenbarge carried sexual-assault accusations and said Star offered $10,000 to accusers who would recant. This story
On file: The Jeffree Star file · The Jeffree Star Cosmetics file
The Ledger
On the record
- A 2020 Business Insider investigation by Kat Tenbarge reported accusations of sexual assault and physical violence against Jeffree Star, and that he offered accusers $10,000 to recant; an attorney for Star denied the allegations.
- Leaked documents reported by Business Insider in December 2020 appear to show a Jeffree Star Cosmetics executive, not Star, paid one accuser $45,000.
Still rumour
- The wage-theft lawsuit against Jeffree Star Cosmetics circulating this week has not been confirmed by any public filing.
- Whether any newer labor complaint against the company exists beyond the 2020 matter is unconfirmed.
That's the record. The rest is rumour. - MrViral
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