Horrific Allegations Leveled Against Vince McMahon and WWE Stars in Bombshell Sex Trafficking Lawsuit

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WWE founder Vince McMahon was accused of sexual abuse and trafficking by a former employee in a new lawsuit filed Thursday and first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

The employee, identified as Janel Grant, signed a nondisclosure agreement over her allegations in 2022. Per the terms of the NDA, McMahon agreed to pay her $3 million. After the first installment of $1 million, however, payments stopped. Grant is now suing McMahon and the WWE in Connecticut.

According to the suit, Grant met McMahon in March 2019 in an apartment building. She had an apartment there, while he lived in the penthouse. Grant revealed to McMahon that she was looking for a job after her parents died, so he promised her a job at the WWE. Soon after, the suit states, meetings between the two eventually became sexual as he pressured her into various activities.

By June, Grant was working with the company as an “administrator-coordinator” in the company’s legal department, and as an employee, the suit says Grant was subjected to even more harassment from McMahon. She alleges he locked her in an office on multiple occasions to sexually assault her, and another WWE executive once joined them.

The suit alleges that in May 2020, “McMahon defecated on [Grant’s] head during a threesome.”

Grant also accuses McMahon of offering her to others in the company. She claims he regularly showed explicit photos of her to executives and WWE talent. In a screenshot included in the lawsuit, McMahon allegedly texted her that he told a group of people, “She may scream and try to say NO!!although it would B difficult to say anything with a cock down her throat.” In a separate instance, McMahon allegedly told her, “I’m the only one who owns U and controls who I want to fuck U.”

One of the executives she was allegedly trafficked to was John Laurinaitis, the head of talent relations at WWE at the time. She claimed McMahon regularly instructed her to have sex with him in his hotel room before workdays.

WWE star Brock Lesnar is also reportedly implicated in the lawsuit. In July 2021, the suit states McMahon told Grant to create “personalized sexual content” for an unnamed star in an effort to re-sign him. The star was identified as a UFC fighter, and sources told the The Wall Street Journal that it was indeed Lesnar.

After allegedly showing the content to the wrestler, McMahon told Grant “he likes what he sees.” When a sexual encounter between Grant and the star fell through, McMahon allegedly offered to “role play” as the star, and “fisted” her and pulled her hair with such force that Grant pleaded for him to stop, though her pleas went ignored, the suit says.

Lesnar, according to the suit, requested that Grant send him a video of herself urinating.

To keep her quiet, McMahon allegedly showered Grant with gifts and paid for any treatment she needed, including $15,000 in Bloomingdale’s gift cards and $20,000 for a surgery.

McMahon maintained his innocence through a federal probe into the payments that remains ongoing. This came after the chairman faced numerous other allegations of sexual misconduct in 2022.

Lesnar did not respond to Journal’s request for comment. Laurinaitis, who left the company in 2022, also didn’t respond to requests for comment.