Howard Stern and his wife, Beth, are responding to a former assistant’s lawsuit. Stern’s former executive assistant, Leslie Kuhn, in April, 2026, filed a lawsuit against Stern in the Supreme Court of the State of New York. As per the lawsuit, viewed by EW at the time, the former assistant claimed that he created a “hostile work environment” and ran “questionable business operations.”
On Wednesday, attorneys for the radio personality and his wife filed a motion to dismiss Kuhn’s lawsuit. Stern called the lawsuit ‘a thinly veiled attempted shakedown” and alleged that Kuhn “hatched a plan to extract a staggering ‘hush-money’ payment” from him.
Kuhn, in her lawsuit, had claimed that the Sterns had presented her with confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements before and also at the time of her firing, and that she is seeking compensation for the “costs of this action.”
Stern’s attorney, in a statement to EW, said,
“We are not going to play this out in public. The Sterns are entitled to enforce nondisclosure agreements signed my employees who enter their home and their private life, and they have filed a motion to address the lawsuit and the conduct of Ms. Kuhn and her lawyer.”
More about Leslie Kuhn’s lawsuit against Howard Stern
In Leslie Kuhn’s April 5 filing against radio personality Howard Stern, the former executive assistant claimed that she was initially hired as an office manager for SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show in September 2022 and then became Howard’s executive assistant in January, 2024.
Kuhn alleged that the couple asked her to move to Southampton, N.Y., in September 2022 to help with their 20,000 square-foot mansion. Leslie added that in December, 2025, she received a letter from Howard’s production company, One Twelve, thanking her for her work, confirming a monetary bonus, and that she would receive a raise in 2026. However, in late February, her “employment was allegedly terminated for cause.”
In the filing, Kuhn also accused Stern of creating a “hostile work environment and enablement of that hostile work environment.” Kuhn also mentioned that the reasons for the termination were fabricated by Stern and his wife, Beth.
In his motion to dismiss the lawsuit, Howard Stern asked the court to free Kuhn “from confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements that she indisputable signed.” Stern also alleged that Kuhn was hoping that the Sterns would “simply pay her to make her ‘go away.'”
Leslie Kuhn has yet to respond to Howard Stern’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
Edited by Abhimanyu Sharma