Outraged Portland lady claims she discovered human physique half in bottle of Trader Joe’s orange juice
A Portland woman has slapped Trader Joe’s with a lawsuit after claiming to have found a fingertip floating around in her organic orange juice.
Julee O’Neil bought the 52oz bottle of the brand’s orange juice from the Halsey Street location in June 2025.
After finishing the bottle, she noticed a large piece of pulp in her mouth that she claims was the tip of a rubber glove, she claimed in a lawsuit, according to KGW 8.
‘She thought [it] might have also contained the end of a human finger in the glove tip or in the pulp of the orange Juice, which she may have inadvertently swallowed or ingested as well,’ read the complaint, filed by her attorney Anthony Furniss.
Immediately after, O’Neil experienced gagging and nausea, and also had a burning sensation in her mouth, the lawsuit said. She took herself to urgent care.
O’Neil is demanding a trial by jury and for the popular grocer to pay her $10,000 in damages and her attorney fees.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Trader Joe’s and O’Neil’s attorney for comment.
O’Neil has previously sued other businesses for similar amounts, including Starbucks, after she fell in a ‘large puddle of water on the floor’ and injured her knee in 2020, KGW reported.
Julee O’Neil was shopping at Trader Joe’s Halsey Street location in Portland when she bought the bottle of orange juice she claimed contained a fingertip
After finishing the bottle of orange juice, she found what she thought was a large chunk of pulp in her mouth. When she pulled it out, she claimed it was the tip of a rubber glove
In her previous filings, she had requested the same amount as she did with Trader Joe’s. The Starbucks lawsuit was later dropped in 2021 for ‘want of prosecution.’
In 2024, she sued a massage therapist, claiming the masseur improperly stepped on her neck. She requested $710,000 in damages and $124,000 in medical bills and lost wages.
O’Neil later dropped the claim in May 2025.
O’Neil’s lawsuit with Trader Joe’s comes on the backend of the grocer settling a $7.4million class-action suit.
The company agreed to settle claims that it violated the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act (FACTA).
Back in 2019, plaintiff Brian Keim paid for groceries with his Visa card at a Trader Joe’s in Palm Beach, Florida but he noticed something disturbing on his receipt.
Keim claimed it exposed too many digits of his credit card number: The first six and last four digits were visible – breaking a key privacy provision of FACTA.
As a result, he sued the grocery chain in 2020 for violating his privacy, and it agreed to settle the claim this month for a whopping $7.4million.
O’Neil and her lawyer, Anthony Furniss, are demanding a trial by jury and $10,000 in damages
Anyone who used a credit card or debit card at a Trader Joe’s between March 5, 2019, and July 19, 2019, can opt into the settlement class and grab their share of the $7.4million settlement, which has an estimated payment of $102.
Despite the settlement, Trader Joe’s ‘vigorously’ denies the allegations.
‘Not all Trader Joe’s stores printed receipts displaying the first six and last four digits of the card number, and in those stores that did, only a small minority of transactions involved such receipts,’ the company said.
Some impacted shoppers will be contacted directly via email or postcard, but others may still qualify. They need to submit a claim before the June 9 deadline.
