Beauty mogul and Kylie Cosmetics founder Kylie Jenner is now at the center of a serious legal battle. Her former housekeeper, Angelica Vasquez, has filed a lawsuit in a Los Angeles court alleging religious discrimination, racial harassment, and unsafe working conditions.
According to legal documents filed last week in Los Angeles and obtained by TMZ, Angelica claims she began working as a housekeeper at Kylie Jenner’s Beverly Hills residence on September 10, 2024. One week later, she was transferred to Jenner’s Hidden Hills home, where she reported to a woman named Elsi and head housekeeper Patsy.
The lawsuit comes just as Jenner returned from two weekends of partying at Coachella 2026.
Angelica claims that from day one she was “treated with hostility and exclusion” and subjected to “severe and pervasive harassment” by Patsy, Elsi, and other staff members. She specifically alleges she was “belittled and humiliated in front of coworkers” because of her race, national origin, and religious beliefs.
Angelica, who identifies as Salvadoran and Catholic, claims she was told “Catholics are horrible people” and was mocked and intimidated about her immigration status. She says comments were made implying that people of her background would be deported from the United States.
Angelica was also reportedly mocked by coworkers for her accent and treated as inferior because of her Salvadoran background.
She further alleges she was intentionally assigned the worst tasks, deliberately excluded from the housekeeping team, had fingers snapped at her, and was routinely shouted at. On one occasion, a supervisor threw hangers at her while reprimanding her after she complained about the treatment.
Angelica says the working conditions caused her to develop severe anxiety and “symptoms consistent with post-traumatic stress disorder,” after which the harassment only intensified. When her complaints went unaddressed, she says she was ultimately forced to resign in August 2025.
Angelica is seeking damages for unpaid wages, emotional distress, and punitive damages.
Sources close to Kylie told TMZ that Vasquez was a junior housekeeping employee who had pre-existing concerns around attendance and workplace behavior.
Notably, most of the allegations are directed at Jenner’s staff rather than at Jenner directly. However, Jenner is named as a defendant for allegedly failing to address the complaints.
A former staff member once described a culture within the Kardashian-Jenner household where “there was a general expectation that people were so lucky to be working for them that they knew that they could treat people like crap.”
Kylie Jenner’s representatives have not issued any official statement on the matter.
This case is currently pending in Los Angeles County Superior Court. All allegations are claims only and have not been proven in a court of law.
