WWE’s Vince McMahon Resigns Over Sex Trafficking Lawsuit
We’ve all heard about these types of lawsuits. Many are pure fabrication with sketchy details and unsubstantiated lies. With people, both male and female, looking for either publicity money or both. Still others are based on fact and hard truth. As details leak out, in these types of circumstance all are tried in the court of public opinion long before they ever reach a courtroom.
Vince McMahon, a WWE executive and another former WWE executive have both been named in a damning lawsuit and the timing couldn’t be worse, coming just days before the company’s highly anticipated Royal Rumble event. However, that is no longer any concern of McMahon’s since he resigned today after details of the lawsuit began to leak.
In a WWE memo obtained by CNBC and Conformed by the company, Vince McMahon, executive chairman of the board of TKO Group Holdings and founder of wrestling giant WWE, has resigned his positions at both companies.
“Vince McMahon has tendered his resignation from his positions as TKO Executive Chairman and on the TKO Board of Directors. He will no longer have a role with TKO Group Holdings or WWE,” said Nick Khan, president of the WWE.
McMahon denied the allegations. But he said in a statement late Friday that:
“Out of respect for the WWE Universe, the extraordinary TKO business and its board members and shareholders, partners and constituents, and all of the employees and superstars who helped make WWE into the global leader it is today, I have decided to resign from my executive chairmanship and the TKO board of directors, effective immediately.”
These latest allegations against McMahon were in a lawsuit filed by Janel Grant who alleges McMahon forced her to have sex with him, directed her to have sex with a WWE “superstar” as well other men. Her suit seeks to void a nondisclosure agreement Grant said she reached with McMahon in early 2022.
Grant, who filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Connecticut says the billionaire McMahon agreed to pay her $3 million as part of that deal, but then reneged and ended up only paying her $1 million in exchange for her silence about his conduct.
In addition to McMahon, 78, the complaint names as defendants WWE, and John Laurinaitis, the company’s former head of talent relations and general manager.
This is not McMahon’s first issue with female employees. Grant Filed her lawsuit after the Wall Street Journal reported last year that the WWE was investigating an alleged $3 million payment from McMahon to a departing female employee following a “consensual affair.” A subsequent investigation found that McMahon paid $14.6 million to several women who accused him of sexual misconduct.
The allegations against McMahon are shocking, and if true, his behavior can only be described as animalistic. Grant claims that McMahon sent her a text message in May 2020 which read: “I’m the only one who owns U and controls who I want to f**K U.”
The suit also claims that she was also directed by McMahon to have sex with other WWE executives as well as an up-and-coming superstar wrestler. In July 2021, McMahon instructed Grant to create sexualized content on her phone and send it to Brock Lesnar, a former UFC star whom the WWE was trying to sign at the time. McMahon allegedly texted Grant in August 2021 and said “that part of the deal signing with WWE was f***ing U.” Part of the deal involving Lesnar reportedly involved sending Lesnar videos of Grant urinating.
McMahon is also accused of sending nude photos and very explicit videos of Grant to other WWE employees without her permission. In the suit McMahon is accused of recruiting John Laurinaitis, WWE’s former head of talent relations, who is also named as a defendant in the filing, to have sex with Grant.
McMahon also reportedly texted “She may scream and try to say NO! Although it would B difficult to say anything with a c**k down her throat” to Grant, recounting what he told WWE employees after alleging sharing the sexually explicit photos with them.
The suit claims that Grant was instructed by McMahon to visit Laurinaitis in his hotel rooms where she had sex with him before workdays.
As if these allegations aren’t horrific enough, Grant accuses McMahon of even worse atrocities.
The suit alleges that In one encounter at WWE offices in June 2021, McMahon and Laurinaitis forced themselves on her and took turns restraining her for the other.
“No means yes” and “Take it, b*tch” were among the things McMahon and Laurinaitis said to Grant during the alleged assault, according to the lawsuit.
In another instance, McMahon allegedly locked her inside his private locker room at WWE headquarters in Stamford, Conn. There he forced himself on her over a massage table. He also allegedly would at times, use sex toys on Grant that caused her injuries including bruising and bleeding. Naming the black sex toys after black wrestlers and the white sex toys after white combatants.
Yet the greatest vile indignity may have taken place back in May of 2020. In the suit, Grant also alleges that McMahon defecated on her head during a threesome, per The New York Post.
“and then commanded her to continue pleasuring his “friend” with feces in her hair and running down her back — while McMahon went to the bathroom to shower off. Upon his return from the bathroom, McMahon and his “friend” actively resumed the threesome, which lasted over an hour and a half, while Ms. Grant remained covered in McMahon’s filth.”
Unfortunately, the wheels of Justice turn slowly and seem to turn in the favor of the wealthy. However, if any of these disgusting accusations are true then McMahon needs to pay in whatever ways that the law allows.
For now, all we can do is shake our heads at the outrageous possibility that a person could have such a blatant stomach-churning dark side.
