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Longtime WWE chairman and CEO Vince McMahon is being accused of sexually abusing and sex trafficking a former company staffer as part of a shocking new lawsuit filed on Thursday.
According to reporting first by the Wall Street Journal, ex-WWE staff member Janel Grant just filed a lawsuit accusing the 78-year-old pro wrestling executive of some truly heinous acts.
Per that outlet’s reporting, Grant signed a non-disclosure agreement back in 2022 under which she agreed not to go to public about her relationship with McMahon. She came away with $3 million as per the terms of that agreement. However, in this new lawsuit filed on Thursday, Grant claims McMahon’s agreed-upon payments to her completely stopped after an initial $1 million payout. He didn’t pay his end, so she’s moving to void the NDA and has sued for unspecified damages.
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In addition to that internal fight, this lawsuit has opened up disturbing new details the NDA had been intended to keep private. Among those is an allegation McMahon asked Grant to “create personalized sexual content for a WWE superstar that he was trying to re-sign.” The suit doesn’t outright name the professional wrestler involved, but the WSJ reports info from sources who claim it’s longtime wrestling superstar Brock Lesnar (above, inset).
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The suit claims issues first arose back in 2019 when McMahon and John Laurinaitis — the former WWE head of talent relations who is also named as a defendant in this new legal maneuver — allegedly pressured Grant into sexual situations in exchange for a job as an administrator-coordinator in WWE’s legal department. Those
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Joe Otterson TV Reporter Vince McMahon has resigned from his position as the executive chairman of the board of TKO Group Holdings, Inc., the company formed by Endeavor that merged WWE and the UFC. “I wanted to inform you that Vince McMahon has tendered his resignation from his positions as TKO Executive Chairman and on the TKO Board of Directors,” WWE president and TKO board member Nick Khan said in an email to staff seen by Variety. “He will no longer have a role with TKO Group Holdings or WWE.” McMahon’s ouster comes after former WWE employee Janel Grant filed a lawsuit against him, the company, and former WWE executive John Laurinaitis.
(Editor’s note: this post contain extremely sexually explicit details from the lawsuit against WWE founder Vince McMahon)
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor A former employee of WWE sued founder Vince McMahon, alleging he abused and sexually exploited her when he was CEO of the wrestling-entertainment company — and that McMahon allegedly trafficked her to other men “as a pawn to secure talent deals” with prospective wrestlers the company was recruiting. The former WWE employee, Janel Grant, filed a lawsuit in U.S.
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