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Vince McMahon / Brock Lesner Accused of Sex Trafficking and other weird shit

Cocksman

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A woman who received a payout from WWE boss Vince McMahon has accused McMahon, the company and a former executive of sex trafficking in a new lawsuit that raises questions about the breadth of an internal company probe conducted by a law firm last year.
Janel Grant, a former employee at WWE’s headquarters, said in a lawsuit filed Thursday that she was abused and sexually exploited by McMahon while he was chief executive. She alleged that McMahon lured her with promises of career advancement, and then he allegedly exploited her and trafficked her to other men inside the company.
Grant signed a nondisclosure agreement in 2022 in which McMahon agreed to pay $3 million for her to not discuss their relationship or to disparage him. The WWE received an anonymous tip in 2022 about the relationship and started a board investigation, whichuncovered other payments by the CEO to women. Grant’s lawsuit said McMahon stopped making payments under the 2022 deal after the initial $1 million installment. The suit seeks to void the agreement and unspecified financial damages.

The lawsuit, filed in a Connecticut federal court, describes in graphic detail Grant’s account of interactions with the businessman and TV personality. She alleged that McMahon and another WWE executive locked her in an office in WWE’s headquarters in Stamford, Conn., on June 15, 2021, and took turns sexually assaulting her while other staff were working.
In the middle of another workday, on June 23, 2021, McMahon locked Grant inside his private locker room at WWE’s offices and forced himself on her over a massage table, the suit said. Later that day, McMahon’s personal assistant delivered $15,000 in Bloomingdale’s gift cards to Grant in her office.
The suit also includes screenshots of explicit text messages that McMahon allegedly sent to Grant. A May 2020 message said: “i’m the only one who owns U and controls who I want to f— U.”

Meanwhile, McMahon allegedly sent her sexually explicit messages and his sexual demands increased. He forcefully used sex toys on her, including dildos he named after WWE wrestlers, causing her bruising and bleeding, the suit said. Grant alleged that she complained to McMahon and made attempts to end the relationship.
In March 2020, McMahon began sharing sexually explicit photographs and videos of Grant with other men, including other WWE executives and a former UFC heavyweight champion with whom WWE was actively trying to sign to a new contract, according to the suit. In a May 2020 encounter, McMahon defecated on her head during a threesome, the suit said.
Her mental and physical health deteriorated so badly that McMahon sent her in November to a celebrity doctor for sessions at an alternative clinic where she never received any receipts or bills. McMahon also paid $20,000 to a surgeon on her behalf, the suit said.
McMahon recruited people to have sex with Grant as well, including WWE’s former head of talent relations, John Laurinaitis, who is named as a defendant in the suit. McMahon directed her to visit Laurinaitis at his hotel rooms where she had sex with Laurinaitis prior to the start of workdays, the suit alleged. “I’ve left that hotel feeling bad about myself every time,” Grant told McMahon.

In May 2021, McMahon allegedly told Grant that her presence in the legal department was holding up the hiring of a new general counsel for the company and thus transferred her to the talent-relations department, reporting to Laurinaitis. McMahon and Laurinaitis started her in a lower-level position but promised that she would soon be promoted to vice president, the suit said.
McMahon controlled her professional and personal lives and subjected her to degradation, according to the suit. In the June 2021 encounter inside the WWE office, the suit said McMahon and Laurinaitis forced themselves on her and took turns restraining her for the other, while saying “No means yes” and “Take it, b—.”
Laurinaitis, a former wrestler known as Johnny Ace and a longtime WWE executive, left the company in 2022. Laurinaitis hasn’t publicly commented on his departure.
Laurinaitis didn’t immediately respond Thursday to requests for comment.
 

Cocksman

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In July 2021, the suit said, McMahon instructed Grant to create personalized sexual content for a WWE superstar that he was trying to re-sign. The suit didn't name the professional wrestler, but described him as both a UFC fighter and WWE talent. People familiar with the matter identified the wrestler as Brock Lesnar, one of WWE's biggest names.
Lesnar didn't immediately respond Thursday to requests for comment.

The suit said McMahon shared the explicit photos with the star and informed Grant that "he likes what he sees." After the star agreed to a new WWE contract, McMahon texted Grant in August 2021 to say "that part of the deal was f—ing U."

That December, McMahon gave Grant's personal cellphone number to the WWE star, the lawsuit said. The wrestler asked her to send a video of herself urinating, the suit said, and after she did, he called her a "b—." That same month, the suit said, the star expressed a desire to "set a play date," but a snowstorm disrupted his travel plans.
In January 2022, the suit said, McMahon told Grant that his wife, Linda McMahon, had discovered the relationship and he pressured Grant to sign an NDA in exchange for payments. The CEO warned Grant of reputational ruin that included pornographic content he had of her. He paid her about $1 million in February, the suit said, and later stopped making the payments.
 
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NeoGiffer

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RiccochetJ

Gold Member
I mean, she described rape. And apparently sex trafficking to get Lesnar to sign a new contract? Can you even get around things like this by doing a settlement? These are violent felonies.
 

Dural

Member
So if he continued paying the $3million agreement there wouldn't be the lawsuit? Kinda fucked up that she was perfectly fine with going along with all this as long as she was getting paid.
 

TheMan

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These allegations are pretty fucked up, and if true Vince and other implicated cohorts need to be jailed.

Netflix sweating mega buckets right now, seems likely they will back out of that deal
 

poppabk

Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
This is pretty horrible and likely largely true given the payouts and the probability of significant amounts of evidence.
So if he continued paying the $3million agreement there wouldn't be the lawsuit? Kinda fucked up that she was perfectly fine with going along with all this as long as she was getting paid.
Would you take $3 million and walk away, or go to court knowing that your life and career would be ruined, you probably wouldnt see a dime, and videos of someone shitting on your face could be released to the public?
 

BennyBlanco

aka IMurRIVAL69
This coming right after they just signed that massive contract with Netflix. They're a garbage company that keeps making money hand over fist.

5 billion dollars.

The top 1% of the world like Vince live in a different reality than us. If he had given this lady her hush money we never would’ve heard about any of this. If you or I had done this we would be looking at decades in prison. It’s fucking sick.
 

nush

Member
If you read other reporting on this story it sure sounds like she was the one that was the star fucker.


According to Grant’s lawsuit, she and McMahon lived in the same apartment building and met in March 2019. In June of that year, per the complaint, “After succumbing to the pressure for a physical relationship, Ms. Grant was slotted into an entry-level position as an ‘administrator-coordinator’ — a position McMahon created for her in WWE’s legal department.” In March 2021, McMahon transferred Grant to the talent relations department, reporting to Laurinaitis


“During the May 18, 2019 encounter, Ms. Grant felt coerced into engaging in $exual activity and that McMahon had trapped her an impossible situation, as she feared adverse career and personal consequences and legal retaliation if she declined his advances.

so she fucked her rich famous neighbor, they lived in the same building and I doubt Vince was slumming it, so she must have enough to afford to live there too. "Pressure for a physical relationship"? He's just a neighbor, got no hold over you and you could have called the cops or just said NO?

She fucked him and did get a job. Vince is a dumbass for shitting where he eats.
 

Thaedolus

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So if he continued paying the $3million agreement there wouldn't be the lawsuit? Kinda fucked up that she was perfectly fine with going along with all this as long as she was getting paid.
He didn’t uphold his end of the hush money bargain. She’s absolutely within her right to seek to nullify the NDA and take him to the cleaners
 

DKehoe

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If you read other reporting on this story it sure sounds like she was the one that was the star fucker.







so she fucked her rich famous neighbor, they lived in the same building and I doubt Vince was slumming it, so she must have enough to afford to live there too. "Pressure for a physical relationship"? He's just a neighbor, got no hold over you and you could have called the cops or just said NO?

She fucked him and did get a job. Vince is a dumbass for shitting where he eats.

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Dural

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He didn’t uphold his end of the hush money bargain. She’s absolutely within her right to seek to nullify the NDA and take him to the cleaners

Right, that's kinda what I was getting at. She went along with everything without the money as she thought it would help her career, then Vince's wife found out and he gave her hush money and made her sign the NDA. She was fine with all of this until he stopped paying. Vince is an idiot for not just giving her the money.


If you read other reporting on this story it sure sounds like she was the one that was the star fucker.







so she fucked her rich famous neighbor, they lived in the same building and I doubt Vince was slumming it, so she must have enough to afford to live there too. "Pressure for a physical relationship"? He's just a neighbor, got no hold over you and you could have called the cops or just said NO?

She fucked him and did get a job. Vince is a dumbass for shitting where he eats.

Exactly!
 

jason10mm

Gold Member
so she fucked her rich famous neighbor, they lived in the same building and I doubt Vince was slumming it, so she must have enough to afford to live there too. "Pressure for a physical relationship"? He's just a neighbor, got no hold over you and you could have called the cops or just said NO?

She fucked him and did get a job. Vince is a dumbass for shitting where he eats.
It's very odd how 2 very different narratives can co-exist. If McMahon had a woman chained up in his basement who had been reported kidnapped years earlier, I don't think you'd have ANY counternarrative. But this woman keeps showing up to work over and over....it just doesn't sit right though I can understand how women (mostly) can find themselves trapped in a situation like this. But there are definitely women (mostly) willingly engaged in this stuff who then try to get some extra squeeze at the end with a bit of extortion.

And it's sad that I can't tell if the lurid details add or subtract from the authenticity of her statements.
 

adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
The girl looks a little bit like Stephanie did in the early 2000s.

Which, for those who know, means more because Vince actually tried to push a storyline that he made Stephanie pregnant.
 

Thaedolus

Member
Right, that's kinda what I was getting at. She went along with everything without the money as she thought it would help her career, then Vince's wife found out and he gave her hush money and made her sign the NDA. She was fine with all of this until he stopped paying. Vince is an idiot for not just giving her the money.
Well yeah he’s definitely asking for it by not upholding his end of the bargain, but I don’t think you can say she was just fine with what happened if he forced her to do things she didn’t want to do. Abuse victims often stay quiet about what they’ve endured or go back to abusive relationships. Often it’s a response to previous trauma they’ve endured. That doesn’t mean they’re just fine with the situation, it’s a mental health issue and they don’t deserve continued abuse.
 
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