Three weeks after Howard Stern’s ex-executive assistant Leslie Kuhn filed a lawsuit against him and wife Beth Stern for $2.5 million in damages , the shock jock has responded.

The SiriusXM host filed to dismiss the lawsuit on Wednesday, dubbing it a “shakedown” and “transparent sham” in court documents obtained by Page Six.

The 72-year-old is “not going to play this out in public,” his lawyer Ilene Farkas tells us.

Howard Stern (pictured above in September 2023) responded to his ex-employee’s lawsuit on Wednesday. Getty Images

The shock jock (pictured above in May 2019) called it a “sham” and a “shakedown.” GC Images

“The Sterns are entitled to enforce non-disclosure agreements signed by employees who enter their home and their private life,” the statement continued.

Howard’s former employee, notably, has requested that two confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements — which she claimed she didn’t sign — be deemed unenforceable so she can respond to “accusations made against her” and “protect her…