A former WWE employee has filed a suit against World Wrestling Entertainment boss Vince McMahon accusing him and a former executive of sexually trafficking her.
“Janel Grant, a former employee at the wrestling firm’s headquarters, said in a lawsuit filed Thursday that she was abused and sexually exploited by McMahon while he was chief executive,” The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
“She alleged that McMahon lured her with promises of career advancement, and then he allegedly exploited her and trafficked her to other men inside the company,” according to the Journal.
The suit alleges that Grant met McMahon in March of 2019 after someone in the apartment building they shared introduced her.
At the time, Grant had been searching for a job in the wake of the deaths of her parents. In response, McMahon allegedly promised her a job at WWE and showered her with gifts. That’s when the sexual stuff started.
“During meetings that were supposed to be about the job, he greeted her in his underwear and repeatedly asked for hugs. Then, the suit said, he pressured her into sexual activities in return for employment and warned her to stay quiet about their interactions,” according to the Journal.
Shortly thereafter in June of 2019, Grant began working at the WWE as an “administrator-coordinator.” It’s at this point that McMahon allegedly began sending her sexually explicit text messages and making sexually related demands of her like forcing her to be aggressively subjected to sex toys.
Why is nobody talking about this part??? #VinceMcMahon pic.twitter.com/FOOfN06uxm
— junior (@juniooorrrrrr) January 26, 2024
Fast-forward to March 2020, when McMahon allegedly began sharing sexually explicit photos and videos of her with other WWE executives and Brock Lesnar, a former UFC heavyweight champion who the WWE was trying to sign at the time. It’s at this point that things got outright nasty.
“In a May 2020 encounter, McMahon defecated on her head during a threesome, the suit said,” according to the Journal.
The encounter affected Grant’s mental and physical health so badly that McMahon then dispatched her to a celebrity doctor for treatment.
Meanwhile, McMahon began recruiting other men within the WWE to have sex with Grant, including the WWE’s former head of talent relations, John Laurinaitis, who reportedly is also named in the lawsuit.
“In [a] June 2021 encounter inside the WWE office, the suit said McMahon and Laurinaitis forced themselves on her and took turns restraining her for the other, while saying ‘No means yes’ and ‘Take it, b-tch,'” the Journal notes.
Eventually, McMahon’s wife learned of his relationship with Grant. It’s at this point that the WWE boss reportedly convinced Grant to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) in exchange for a $3 million promised payday. The problem is that, after paying out $1 million, he stopped making payments, angering Grant and prompting the lawsuit.
In response to the lawsuit, McMahon’s team has claimed it’s all a lie.
“This lawsuit is replete with lies, obscene made-up instances that never occurred, and a vindictive distortion of the truth,” a spokesman for McMahon said. “He will vigorously defend himself.”
Responding to the allegations laid out in the suit, members of the public have mostly expressed disgust, though some have claimed Grant is as much at fault as McMahon.
Look:
There’s no way that Vince McMahon can talk his way outta this. This is just damning.
— SonOfChar0079 (@SonOfChar0079) January 25, 2024
That fact that he isnt behind bars yet is insane, there’s no penalty for rich people no matter how bad
— Jack (-_•) (@captaincupkicks) January 25, 2024
People with money believe they can commit sex crimes without consequences. I’ve never seen anything like it.
— Neo (@IAmTheMagnific) January 25, 2024
Deplorable behavior. Even more shameful how almost every person in the company continues to turn a blind eye simply because he still owns large chuck of the company.
— what do you guys wanna talk about? (@RassslinFan) January 25, 2024
Those messages and the reports indicate she knew what she was doing and actively partook in hopes of money and career advancement. Vince is disgusting and needs to be in prison, but she is guilty for SOME of this, not all but SOME.
— Trent Allen (@trentallen90) January 26, 2024
I’m not really surprised. Back in the early to mid 1990s, I recall a story involving wrestlers having to do things with Vince’s friends if they wanted to advance their careers. After it left the headlines, I never thought about it again until today, but this jarred a memory.
— Robert Plantagenet (@ra24mpa) January 25, 2024
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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