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(Editor’s note: this post contain extremely sexually explicit details from the lawsuit against WWE founder Vince McMahon)
In a very explicit and disturbing filing in federal court today, a former WWE staffer is suing co-founder Vince McMahon for rape, sex trafficking and battery. Janel Grant is also taking Word Wrestling Entertainment itself to task for negligence and suing former WWE Head of Talent Relations and General Manager John Laurinaitis for sexual assault and more.
In a document full of alleged vile behavior and violence on the part the already much accused McMahon and others at WWE, Grant details a relationship of full of cringy sexual innuendo from the first time the economically and emotionally fragile woman met McMahon in March 2019. A relationship that soon turned overtly vehement sexual as clear condition of her employment and soon after that turned vicious.
Sharing of naked images of Grant with other senior WWE staffers, forcing Grant into group sex situations, aggressive physical situations with degrading language like “b*tch” used over and over, some encounters saw the use of “sex toys” that resulted in “physical injuries” and some crossing of state lines – hence the trafficking claim.
As well as being told to repeatedly have violent sex with Laurinaitis, an unnamed “WWE Superstar,” which never turned physical, and others Grant was eventually made in 2022 to leave WWE and sign a NDA as spouse and ex-Trump administration official Linda McMahon had supposedly found out about her. In what today’s filings calls a move to “sweep the matter under the rug,” McMahon was to pay Grant $3 million under the agreement. While itemizing the various gifts McMahon gave her between 2019 and 2022, Grant’s filing says she only received $1 million in promised payments.
In that context, one revolting alleged group sex incident both stands out and personifies the overall tone and tenor of Grant’s filing.
“Early in the encounter, McMahon immediately directed Ms. Grant to lay down on her back in a supplicating position,” the lawsuit states, “While straddling over her, McMahon defecated on Ms. Grant’s head. McMahon left to shower off, but he instructed Ms. Grant to remain in place, with excrement in her hair, and to continue performing for his friend. While Ms. Grant requested protection, none was offered. McMahon and Physical Therapist actively continued with the threesome and directed Ms. Grant’s sexual performance for around an hour and a half while she was left covered in feces.”
Horrible to say, there is a lot of this in this filing.
Pushed out by the then board as WWE president and CEO in 2022 amid sexual abuse and harassment allegations an ensuing investigation, McMahon returned with a newly installed board last year and soon afterwards unveiled a self-described “strategic review process (i.e., a sale of the Company).” In September of last year, WWE merged with the Endeavor-owned UFC to form TKO Group Holdings. McMahon is the Executive Chairman of the new-ish sports powerhouse, with Ari Emanuel as CEO and Mark Shapiro the TKO president.
On January 23, Netflix revealed a 10-year and $5 billion deal with TKO for the streamer to become the new home for WWE‘s Monday Night Raw, as well as other programs from the company. Shaking up linear and streaming platforms, the big move into the ring and live sports for the Ted Sarando’s co-CEO’d company came one day before Netflix’s latest earnings report – which saw big subscriber boosts and subsequent big stock surges.
Grant is seeking a wide range of unspecified damages The plaintiff also wants a “declaratory judgment that the NDA is void and unenforceable, and does not bar any of Plaintiff’s claims against Defendants McMahon and WWE.”
Neither Endeavor nor Netflix responded to request for comment on the McMahon and WWE lawsuit filed in federal court in Connecticut. If and when they do, we will update this post. For the record, John Lauriantis left WWE last year under a cloud of accusations.
