Former WWE chief Vince McMahon has been accused of ‘sex trafficking’, as well as allegedly ‘defecating’ on a woman during a ‘threesome’ in lawsuit that was filed against the wrestling figure. A former employee at the wrestling organisation’s headquarters made the startling allegation, which comes following an internal investigation by the WWE.
One-time worker at the sports entertainment firm Janel Grant has claimed that the 78-year-old abused and sexually exploited her during his time in charge of the company, as per court documents. She made allegations that the current TKO Group Holdings executive chairman lured her amid the promise of her advancing her career.
She claimed that he allegedly trafficked her to fellow employees within the WWE organisation. Previously, Grant had signed a Grant nondisclosure agreement with McMahon in which he paid her $3 million (£2.4 million) but was unable to speak about the case.
The lawsuit claims that the WWE boss McMahon locked Grant in his locker room in the company’s headquarters, before ‘forced himself’ on her on a massage table. In another allegation, the wrestling chief is supposed to have ‘defecated’ on her head during a threesome.
In this instance, it has been claimed that the veteran sports businessman ordered Grant to continue with a sex act on the other individual involved while faeces was in her hair and on her body as he went for a shower. After this, they allegedly resumed the ‘threesome’ for over for over an hour, while she was still covered in McMahon’s excrement.
When the other individual purportedly left, the WWE chief is claimed to have told her to continue pleasuring him. She also alleges that McMahon ‘repeatedly used sex toys named after other WWE employees, wrestlers and performers to sexually groom’ her for ‘trafficking to those same people’.
Moreover, the claims were made by Grant that McMahon had ‘directed’ her to ‘create personalized sexual content’ for an unnamed ‘WWE Superstar’. Purportedly, McMahon shared these images with the individual and told Grant ‘he likes what he sees.’ It was claimed that the ‘WWE superstar’ flew to meet Grant for a ‘business dinner’ and a ‘sexual encounter’ took place with him involving Grant at McMahon’s condo.
Furthermore, the lawsuit claims that the former WWE chief McMahon would ‘shower Ms. Grant with gifts and empty work promotions’, while ‘threatening her livelihood and her reputation if she wouldn’t succumb to his increasingly depraved sexual demands’.
These demands purportedly included ‘disseminating pornography of Ms. Grant’ to what she claimed were ‘thousands of individuals’, as well as ‘engaging in sex acts with other WWE employees — some of whom were complete strangers’.
In a text message allegedly sent by McMahon, he purportedly said of Grant: “She may scream and try to say NO!!although it would B difficult to say anything with a c*** down her throat,” while another message sent to her is alleged to have read: “‘I’m the only one who owns U and controls who I want to f*** U.’
In the lawsuit’s documents, it is claimed that Grant first met McMahon while she was dealing with ‘profound grief and struggling financially’, with this coming after ‘devoting years to around-the-clock caregiving, her parents passed away’. During that period she was said to have been ‘unemployed and her family home was lost in her parents’ bankruptcy’.
This comes after the WWE’s investigation which found that ‘regulatory, investigative and enforcement inquiries, subpoenas or demands’ had been received by the company in relation to alleged of sexual misconduct involving McMahon. These payments tallied up to a figure of $14.6 million (£11.5m) and stemmed from the period between 2006 and 2022.
The aforementioned claims about the alleged use of sex toys by McMahon on Grant is said to have led to ‘bleeding and pain’, as per the lawsuit. The documents claim that he was ‘most aggressive when using the certain sex toys named after male WWE wrestlers and performers’.
In another claim, the lawsuit states that McMahon named the sex toys, matching the ‘color of the toy’ with ‘the race of the wrestler’, citing the example: “A black ‘dildo’ would be named after an African American wrestler and a white ‘dildo’ would be named after a Caucasian wrestler”.
The lawsuit also alleged that McMahon had an ‘infatuation’ with pretending that other men, sometimes WWE stars, were ‘in the room with them’. It was claimed that ;this was yet another incremental step in desensitizing Ms. Grant to his fantasy’, and the eventual supposed ‘demands that she perform sexual acts for and/or have sexual contact with others within WWE’.
It was also claimed that McMahon demonstrated an ‘increasing lack of boundaries’ during Grant’s time at the WWE offices, with the company’s then-chief having allegedly ‘greeted her in his underwear, touched her, repeatedly asked for hugs’ during an interview over a potential role with the firm.
She also has alleged that McMahon shared sexually explicit content involving her with people both ‘inside and outside’ the company. The individuals that this content was purportedly shared with are claimed to have included the WWE’s ‘tech team, executive(s),producer(s)’, alongside a ‘world-famous athlete’ and ‘former UFC Heavyweight Champion’.
The lawsuit claims that McMahon’s wife eventually found out about the acts that have been alleged to have happened in January 2022. Purportedly to ‘avoid divorce, negative publicity, and other repercussions’ the WWE chief ended Grant’s stay with the firm but told her to ‘to sign an NDA to ensure her silence on, among other things, his personal misconduct’.
The lawsuit alleges that McMahon put Grant under ‘immense pressure to sign’ as he purportedly claimed that ‘refusing would not only jeopardize McMahon, his family, and the company’. He also is said to have pledged his ‘continued support and protection and safeguard her reputation’ and Grant eventually signed the NDA while allegedly ‘under pressure’ in exchange for payments’.
Grant has alleged in the lawsuit that the WWE chief only paid $1m (£790,000) of the nondisclosure agreement that was struck with her back in 2022 . Now, she is looking for this agreement to be ‘voided’ alongside ‘unspecified financial damages’, according to the report.
McMahon did depart his role at the WWE back in 2022 when the allegations about payments to multiple women first emerged in a previous piece by the Wall Street Journal. However, he returned to his post following the conclusion of the aforementioned internal investigation launched by the WWE concluded in November of that year.
After a federal probe was launched into the $14.6 million (£11.5m) payments to women following allegations of sexual misconduct, McMahon maintained his innocence. He previously said: “Throughout this experience, I have always denied any intentional wrongdoing and continue to do so I am confident that the government’s investigation will be resolved without any findings of wrongdoing.”
