A woman who says she was preparing holiday gifts inside the home of billionaire couple Nelson and Claudia Peltz is seeking more than $50,000 after allegedly being attacked by the family’s rescue dog.

The complaint marks the second lawsuit in two years involving Houdini, a dog the Peltz family allegedly knew had a history of aggressive behavior.

Joy Ransom filed the latest lawsuit on July 10, claiming she was injured at the Peltz residence on December 23, 2025. Nicola Peltz Beckham, the actress and wife of Brooklyn Peltz Beckham, was allegedly present when the incident occurred.

According to the complaint, Ransom was working inside the home and helping prepare gifts shortly before Christmas when she encountered Houdini.

The lawsuit alleges that the dog was neither restrained nor under anyone’s effective control at the time. Ransom maintains that she did nothing negligent to provoke or cause the incident.

Her filing portrays the encounter not as an unforeseeable accident, but as the result of a danger the dog’s owners allegedly understood before she was hurt.

Ransom claims Claudia and Nelson Peltz knew Houdini was prone to attacking people. She further alleges that the dog had never received professional K-9 instruction or behavioral training despite those tendencies.

The complaint does not provide a detailed public account of precisely how the alleged attack unfolded. However, it states that Ransom suffered injuries serious enough to require medical care and generate related expenses.

She is seeking damages for a wide range of alleged consequences, including physical injury, pain, emotional distress, disability, impairment and disfigurement.

The lawsuit also claims she experienced inconvenience, reduced enjoyment of life, lost income and damage to her future earning ability. Her injuries may also have permanently worsened a condition that existed before the incident, according to the filing.

Ransom says she accumulated hospital, medical and other bills as a result.

She is demanding a jury trial and seeking more than $50,000 from the couple.

The case has gained added attention because it is not the first time the Peltzes have faced legal action involving Houdini.

A different former employee previously sued the couple in Palm Beach County, Florida, over an incident that allegedly occurred on December 16, 2024—almost exactly one year before Ransom says she was injured.

In that earlier case, the former employee claimed Houdini lunged at her and attempted to attack her. She said the dog’s behavior caused her to fall and suffer injuries.

Ransom’s filing points to that earlier allegation as evidence that the dog’s owners had received warning about Houdini’s behavior before the December 2025 incident.

That timeline is central to the new complaint.

Under Ransom’s account, the first alleged encounter should have alerted the family that the dog might endanger employees, visitors or others entering the residence. Her lawsuit argues that the family nevertheless failed to take sufficient precautions before she arrived to prepare holiday gifts.

The new complaint also accuses Claudia and Nelson of failing to notify the proper animal control agency about Houdini’s allegedly dangerous tendencies.

In addition, Ransom alleges that they did not obtain a required registration certificate for the dog.

Those accusations broaden the dispute beyond the immediate circumstances of her injury. The lawsuit challenges how the family allegedly responded to earlier signs of aggression and whether they fulfilled their responsibilities after becoming aware of them.

The Peltzes’ relationship with Houdini has previously appeared publicly through family social media. Photographs have shown Nelson Peltz with the rescued dog, while Nicola has also shared images of Houdini.

The legal complaints, however, present a sharply different picture from those family photographs.

Ransom’s lawsuit describes a dog whose alleged behavioral problems were significant enough to require restraint, supervision or professional intervention. It claims those protections were not in place when she entered the home for work.

The presence of Nicola during the alleged December 2025 incident has also drawn public interest because of her high-profile family connections.

Nicola, 31, is married to Brooklyn Peltz Beckham, the eldest son of David and Victoria Beckham. Her father, Nelson Peltz, is a billionaire investor, while her mother, Claudia, is a former fashion model.

Neither Nicola nor Brooklyn is identified as a defendant in Ransom’s lawsuit. The legal action is directed against Claudia and Nelson as the dog’s alleged owners.

At its core, the dispute will likely depend on questions of knowledge and responsibility.

Ransom alleges that the family knew the dog had displayed dangerous behavior before her encounter. She also maintains that Houdini remained untrained, unrestrained and uncontrolled despite that knowledge.

The couple may have an opportunity to challenge those allegations as the case proceeds. A lawsuit contains claims by one party and does not itself determine liability.

Still, the existence of two separate complaints involving the same dog could become an important part of Ransom’s effort to show that the December 2025 incident was preventable.

Her filing connects the earlier employee’s account to her own, creating a sequence in which one alleged warning was followed approximately a year later by another claimed injury.

The timing also adds an unsettling contrast to the circumstances.

Ransom says she was inside the residence preparing gifts during the holiday season—a routine job carried out in what should have been a controlled private environment. Instead, according to her complaint, she left with injuries that caused physical, emotional and financial harm.

The case now places the Peltz family’s handling of Houdini under renewed legal scrutiny.

Ransom’s attorney was contacted for comment, but no additional public response was included. The article did not report a response from Claudia or Nelson Peltz to the allegations.

As the lawsuit moves forward, a jury may eventually be asked to determine whether the couple knew Houdini represented a danger, whether reasonable protections were available and whether their alleged failure to use them caused Ransom’s injuries.

The legal outcome remains unresolved.

But the latest complaint has transformed what might once have been treated as an isolated allegation into a larger question surrounding the same dog, the same household and two workers who say they were injured one year apart.