The private jet Peter Thiel and his family were using had two bathrooms, but somehow, on July 13, 2024, neither was readily available. One in the back of the jet was stuffed with luggage. The other, according to one court filing, was being used to store cooler bags with food and kitchen equipment. What happened next has become the subject of a federal lawsuit featuring claims of an alleged assault as well as disputes over workers’ compensation and whether a confidentiality agreement can stop a former flight attendant from suing the husband of one of the planet’s richest people.

Stefanie Bojar, the flight attendant at the center of the dispute, was employed by Solairus Aviation—which did not immediately respond to a request for comment—but had worked more than 200 flights for Thiel and his husband, Matthew Danzeisen. On that July flight, Bojar says, Danzeisen—who is also the head of private investments at Thiel Capital—shoved her aside and threw multiple heavy cooler bags at her, knocking her into the aircraft wall and leaving her collapsed on the cabin floor. She claims that Danzeisen’s actions caused serious injuries to her ankle and knee.

Danzeisen says he was clearing bags from the bathroom so one of his children could use it. At most, he says, one of the bags may have accidentally brushed Bojar’s leg.

(Like the other claims in this story attributed to Bojar and Danzeisen, these were made in court filings.)

In May, Danzeisen preemptively sued Bojar in the Central District of California’s Southern Division—after, he says, she sent a “demand letter” several months earlier. While one of Bojar’s attorneys, Elliott Jung, tells WIRED the letter was an attempt to resolve the dispute outside courts, Danzeisen’s complaint describes Bojar as waging “a campaign to extort” him and his husband. Characterizing Bojar as a former flight attendant with a checkered aviation career, the complaint accuses her of launching a “defamation campaign” and violating a confidentiality agreement, and asks the court to essentially impose a gag order and award actual and punitive damages.

Bojar denied the allegations in a counterclaim filed Tuesday, adding Thiel C...