[Music] Mr Beast the popular YouTuber whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson has taken legal action against a former employee who accused him of being a fraud and a sociopath in online videos the ex-employee identified as Dawson French used aliases to claim that Mr Beast rigged his large cash giveaways and knowingly employed a sex offender Mr Beast has not publicly responded to these accusations but his attorney Alex SPO has sent a cease and assist letter to French the letter obtained by dailymail.com accuses French of spreading misinformation and false statements and threatens legal action if the defamatory content continues French has stood by his allegations stating in an email to dailymail.com that Mr Beast kept rapists and pedophiles on payroll this controversy comes on the heels of other issues from Mr Beast including a former collaborator being accused of explicit online chats with a minor and criticisms of his new game show Beast games speiro a high-profile attorney known for representing celebrities like Elon Musk and Alec Baldwin is conducting an internal audit of Mr BEAST's operations the audit aims to determine whether these issues reflect a toxic workplace environment or the challenges of a rapidly growing business Mr BEAST's Empire currently boasts 309 million YouTube viewers viewers and 103 million Tik Tok followers