by Daniel Johnson
August 24, 2025
Chutner lately filed a lawsuit over the corporate she created.
Sharon Chutner, the founding father of Uoma Magnificence and a driving power within the motion to diversify the wonder trade by each the corporate she based and her personal private initiatives. was discovered on Aug. 14 useless on a patio, and her dying is at the moment nonetheless below investigation, experiences Individuals Journal.
Kirbie Johnson, who runs the publication “Forward of the Kirb,” reported {that a} supply acquainted with Chutner’s circles stated a former government from Chutner’s firm confirmed Chutner’s dying.
Chutner, who launched Uoma Magnificence in 2019 at Ulta with an preliminary providing of greater than 100 inclusive magnificence merchandise, got here with bona fides within the magnificence trade, together with most notably, convincing Revlon to distribute magnificence merchandise in her house nation of Nigeria.
A 12 months after launching Uoma Magnificence, as conversations round range, fairness, and inclusion gained momentum following the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Chutner launched two pivtol initiatives — Pull Up for Change and the #PullUpOrShutUp marketing campaign — difficult magnificence firms to reveal the variety of Black staff in company and management roles inside 72 hours of being referred to as out.
Her initiative additionally inspired customers to vote with their {dollars} and keep away from firms that did not expose this data.
Chutner spoke about this in additional element two years later, throughout an episode of “The Drew Barrymore Present.”
“I did that basically to drive extra consciousness and shine extra gentle to the dearth of financial alternatives for the Black neighborhood, particularly throughout the magnificence house. I’ve all the time been the one who speaks up. Every time I see one thing that should change, I don’t have it in me means to only sit it out,” she informed Barrymore.
In 2023, despite all her work on behalf of range with Uoma Magnificence, she opted to step down as CEO of the corporate, which she later defined was a call she made after a big well being scare in January of that 12 months that made her search out a extra wholesome work-life steadiness.
She additionally admitted in an Instagram submit addressing the matter that it wasn’t solely voluntary, one thing she would expound on in a lawsuit two years later.
In response to Attract, in 2025, a couple of months earlier than her premature dying, Chutner filed a lawsuit towards MacArthur Magnificence, BrainTrust, and Settle Funding, alleging that “BrainTrust took management of Uoma’s operations and in the end pushed Ms. Chuter out of her operational roles.”
Along with this, BrainTrust each stopped Uoma’s operations whereas she was on medical go away, which she alleged was supposed to finish in July 2023.
In response to her lawsuit, she was additionally presupposed to return in a “chief model officer” capability whereby she would have been in command of “overseeing inventive, product improvement, in addition to being the face of the model… This didn’t occur.”
Moreover, after the lawsuit was filed, BrainTrust gave their aspect of what occurred as Chutner’s tenure with Uoma got here to an finish.
“It’s not our apply to remark publicly on our investments in personal firms, however this specious criticism requires a response. Ms. Chuter resigned from the Uoma board and publicly on Instagram after hiring an interim CEO who carried out a forensic accounting evaluate of the corporate,” they stated in a joint assertion with MacArthur Magnificence, LLC management.
The lawsuit Chutner filed in February 2025 in Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom alleges that BrainTrust et al engaged in “constructive fraudulent switch, intentional fraudulent switch, aiding and abetting fraudulent switch, receipt of stolen property, and unjust enrichment.”
On account of this, the lawsuit states that Chutner was looking for “damages for fraudulent switch and MacArthur and BrainTrust’s receipt of Uoma’s almost $50 million in stolen property.” Which she famous in her lawsuit must be “decided based on proof at trial in extra of the jurisdictional minimal of $25,000.”
Regardless of the complicated nature of the lawsuit, Chutner’s premature dying leaves many authorized issues unresolved for now.
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