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WWE boss Vince McMahon has been accused of intercourse trafficking in a brand new lawsuit filed by a former worker, who claims the 78-year-old billionaire defecated on her head throughout a threesome.
Janel Grant, who beforehand agreed to a $3 million settlement in alternate for signing a nondisclosure settlement in 2022, has filed a brand new lawsuit towards McMahon, the WWE and a former government. In that submitting, obtained by DailyMail.com, Grant claims McMahon stopped making funds after the preliminary $1 million installment, and he or she now seeks to void that settlement.
Furthermore, Grant claims she suffered bruising and bleeding after McMahon forcefully penetrated her with intercourse toys, which he named after his wrestlers. She additionally alleges that McMahon and one other WWE government locked her in a room on the WWE’s Stamford, Connecticut headquarters in June of 2021 and took turns sexually assaulting throughout the work day. The married McMahon is moreover accused of trafficking Grant to different males and sharing nude images of the plaintiff.
Grant is searching for unspecified damages.
Neither McMahon’s lawyer nor WWE spokespeople have responded to DailyMail.com’s request for remark. The group beforehand described McMahon’s sexual relationship with Grant as ‘consensual’ in a 2022 assertion.
TKO Executive Chairman of the Board Vince McMahon is seen throughout a ceremony this week
Janel Grant (pictured) is suing Vince McMahon, the WWE and one other firm government
‘Today’s criticism seeks to carry accountable two WWE executives who sexually assaulted and trafficked Plaintiff Janel Grant, in addition to the group that facilitated or turned a blind eye to the abuse after which swept it beneath the rug,’ learn an announcement from lawyer Ann Callis, who’s representing Grant.
‘She is an extremely personal and brave one who has suffered deeply by the hands of Mr. McMahon and Mr. [John] Laurinaitis. Ms. Grant hopes that her lawsuit will stop different girls from being victimized. The group is nicely conscious of Mr. McMahon’s historical past of wicked conduct, and it is time that they take duty for the misconduct of its management.’
Laurinaitis was fired from the corporate in 2022.
The lawsuit comes as McMahon is decreasing his position throughout the firm. In truth, he briefly left the WWE in 2022, when the preliminary allegations of his infidelities first surfaced in a Wall Street Journal report.
And this week, former wrestler Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson was appointed to the board of administrators at TKO, the umbrella firm fashioned by the UFC-WWE merger. Meanwhile one other former wrestler, Triple H (AKA Paul Levesque) has changed McMahon because the WWE’s chief content material officer.
McMahon’s co-defendant John Laurinaitis
The WWE board realized of McMahon’s relationship with Grant from an nameless tip in 2022 and launched an inside investigation, which subsequently uncovered $14.6 million in different alleged funds by the chief to varied girls.
Grant’s submitting alleges that McMahon ensnared her in a sexual relationship by promising to assist advance her profession earlier than in the end exploiting her and trafficking her to different executives throughout the firm.
In one alleged textual content message from 2020, McMahon is accused of sharing a photograph of Grant with others and writing: ‘She might scream and attempt to say NO!!though it will B tough to say something with a c*** down her throat.’
Another message allegedly despatched by McMahon to Grant a month earlier learn: ‘i am the one one who owns U and controls who I wish to f*** U.’
WWE government and retired wrestler John Laurinaitis can also be named as a defendant within the swimsuit.
Grant claims that McMahon directed her to usually go to Laurinaitis at a lodge, the place the 2 had each day sexual encounters previous to reporting to the workplace.
‘I’ve left that lodge feeling dangerous about myself each time,’ Grant claims she informed McMahon.
John is the uncle of former NFL linebacker James Laurinaitis. His brothers Joe and Marcus additionally wrestled within the WWE.
PICTURED: The World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut
In one alleged sexual encounter in May of 2020, Grant claims McMahon defecated on her head throughout a threesome earlier than commanding her to proceed pleasuring his ”pal.”
‘Upon his return from the lavatory, McMahon and his ”pal” actively resumed the threesome, which lasted over an hour and a half, whereas Ms. Grant remained coated in McMahon’s filth,’ the submitting continued. ‘When McMahon’s ”pal” left, McMahon ordered her to remain and to proceed to sexually gratify him.’
McMahon is already being investigated by federal prosecutors over the alleged funds, and in line with The Wall Street Journal, brokers executed a search warrant for his telephone and served him a grand-jury subpoena in July of 2023.
He has not been charged with any crime within the case.
‘Throughout this expertise, I’ve at all times denied any intentional wrongdoing and proceed to take action,’ McMahon stated in 2023 in regards to the federal probe. ‘I’m assured that the federal government’s investigation might be resolved with none findings of wrongdoing.’
According to the submitting, Grant started working on the firm at a tough time in her life in 2019.
‘The two met in March 2019, when Ms. Grant was coping with profound grief and struggling financially – after devoting years to around-the-clock caregiving, her dad and mom handed away,’ learn the submitting. ‘On high of that, she was unemployed and her household residence was misplaced in her dad and mom’ chapter.’
Vince McMahon having his head shaved by businessman Donald Trump in April of 2007
Initially, McMahon appeared like a savior for Grant, however she quickly started to really feel in any other case.
‘As McMahon dangled career-making and life-changing guarantees in entrance of Ms. Grant, he demonstrated an growing lack of boundaries,’ learn the submitting. ‘During a number of conferences that have been ostensibly a few potential job at WWE, he greeted her in his underwear, touched her, repeatedly requested for hugs, and spent hours sharing intimate particulars about his private life.’
McMahon allegedly pushed her for a sexual relationship, whereas insisting that she preserve their affair quiet.
But when she started to hunt a solution to finish the fling, she claims it turned clear to her that her job was tied to her willingness to carry out sexually for McMahon.
‘Despite Ms. Grant’s expressions of unhappiness and makes an attempt to finish the sexual relationship—and whereas she got here to know that McMahon anticipated the bodily relationship to proceed as a part of her employment—she had no concept how sordid it will turn out to be, nor how the psychological torture and bodily violence would depart her feeling helpless, remoted and trapped,’ learn the submitting.
Triple H, John Cena, Vince McMahon and WWE Diva and Playboy mannequin Maria in 2008
Ultimately, Grant says her worsening well being triggered McMahon to ship her to a physician and pay $20,000 to a different to carry out surgical procedure on her.
Then, in 2021, Grant says McMahon informed her to make ‘personalised sexual content material for WWE Superstar’ whom he hoped to re-sign. The submitting doesn’t determine the person, however did describe him as a ‘former UFC Heavyweight Champion.’
After re-signing the unidentified particular person, McMahon allegedly texted Grant in August to say: ‘Part of the deal was f***ing U.’
The above textual content included in Grant’s submitting purportedly reveals McMahon instructing her to have intercourse with WWE exec John Laurinaitis
McMahon ‘abruptly distanced himself’ from Grant in January of 2022 when his spouse, former US Senate candidate Linda McMahon, turned conscious of the affair, in line with the submitting.
McMahon then allegedly pressured Grant to stay quiet about their affair, warning her that Linda would search a divorce, which may result in Grant struggling reputational hurt.
According to the lawsuit, he then informed Grant that somebody recognized within the submitting as ‘WWE Corporate Officer No. 1’ would assist her discover employment elsewhere, whereas additionally instructing her to signal an NDA.
Grant in the end left the corporate in early 2022 and he or she acquired the primary $1 million instalment of her $3 million NDA settlement in February of that yr.
However, Grant claims, she was pressured to carry out one final sexual act with McMahon after they met at his condominium quickly thereafter.
‘As Ms. Grant knelt on the laborious ground, barely a number of ft away from the entrance door, McMahon opened his gown and ordered her to ”Eat him!”’ the submitting learn.
‘McMahon grabbed the again of Ms. Grant’s head and slammed her face into his crotch a pair occasions till she gagged and pushed him away, telling him to cease and that she could not breathe.’
Grant says she by no means noticed McMahon once more after the violent sexual encounter.