diff --git a/litellm/proxy/management_helpers/bulk_user_deletion.py b/litellm/proxy/management_helpers/bulk_user_deletion.py
index e7726652eca..d73901a3ea0 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/management_helpers/bulk_user_deletion.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/management_helpers/bulk_user_deletion.py
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from litellm.repositories.prisma_protocols import TableActions
 
 _AUDIT_LOG_CONCURRENCY: Final = 10
-_USER_BATCH_TX_TIMEOUT: Final = timedelta(seconds=60)
+_BATCH_TX_TIMEOUT: Final = timedelta(seconds=60)
 
 
 class _ErrorDetail(TypedDict):
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ async def bulk_remove_team_members(
     duplicates: Final = _duplicate_member_indexes(data.members)
     kept_indexes: Final = tuple(i for i in range(len(data.members)) if i not in duplicates)
     members: Final = tuple(data.members[i] for i in kept_indexes)
-    async with prisma_client.tx() as tx:
+    async with prisma_client.tx(timeout=_BATCH_TX_TIMEOUT) as tx:
         removal: Final = await _remove_members_from_team(prisma_client, tx, data.team_id, members, user_api_key_dict)
     await delete_cache_key_objects(
         hashed_tokens=removal.deleted_key_tokens,
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ async def _delete_users_tx(
     """Rewrites every team the users belong to and deletes their rows in one transaction, so a
     failure anywhere rolls back the whole batch. Teams a user still names but which no longer exist
     are skipped; the user row goes away regardless."""
-    async with prisma_client.tx(timeout=_USER_BATCH_TX_TIMEOUT) as tx:
+    async with prisma_client.tx(timeout=_BATCH_TX_TIMEOUT) as tx:
         team_rows: Final = await _team_tx_db(tx).find_many(
             where=_in_filter("team_id", frozenset(t for teams in teams_of.values() for t in teams))
         )
@@ -395,11 +395,7 @@ async def _delete_users_tx(
                     prisma_client,
                     tx,
                     tid,
-                    tuple(
-                        MemberDeleteRequest(user_id=u.user_id, user_email=u.user_email)
-                        for u in users
-                        if tid in teams_of[u.user_id]
-                    ),
+                    tuple(MemberDeleteRequest(user_id=u.user_id) for u in users if tid in teams_of[u.user_id]),
                     user_api_key_dict,
                 )
                 for tid in team_ids
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/management_helpers/test_bulk_user_deletion.py b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/management_helpers/test_bulk_user_deletion.py
index dd266880ce0..aac30184e1d 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/management_helpers/test_bulk_user_deletion.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/management_helpers/test_bulk_user_deletion.py
@@ -277,6 +277,37 @@ async def test_bulk_delete_removes_users_from_every_team_and_store():
     assert prisma.locks == ["t1", "t2"] and prisma.roster_reads == ["t1", "t2"]
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_bulk_delete_leaves_teammates_who_share_the_deleted_users_email_alone():
+    twin = _UserRow(user_id="twin", user_email="u1@example.com", teams=["t1"])
+    team = LiteLLM_TeamTable(
+        team_id="t1",
+        members_with_roles=[
+            Member(user_id="u1", user_email="u1@example.com", role="user"),
+            Member(user_id="twin", user_email="u1@example.com", role="user"),
+        ],
+    )
+    prisma = _FakePrisma(
+        users=[_user("u1", "t1"), twin],
+        teams=[team],
+        memberships=[("t1", "u1"), ("t1", "twin")],
+        tokens=[
+            {"token": "k1", "user_id": "u1", "team_id": "t1"},
+            {"token": "k-twin", "user_id": "twin", "team_id": "t1"},
+        ],
+    )
+
+    response = await _delete(prisma, ["u1"])
+
+    assert [(r.success, r.teams_removed) for r in response.results] == [(True, ("t1",))]
+    assert _roster(prisma, "t1") == ["twin"]
+    assert set(prisma.db.litellm_usertable.rows) == {"twin"} and prisma.db.litellm_usertable.rows["twin"].teams == [
+        "t1"
+    ]
+    assert prisma.db.litellm_teammembership.rows == [{"team_id": "t1", "user_id": "twin"}]
+    assert [t["token"] for t in prisma.db.litellm_verificationtoken.rows] == ["k-twin"]
+
+
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_bulk_delete_finds_teams_through_membership_rows_when_user_teams_array_is_stale():
     prisma = _FakePrisma(