Rappers reminiscent of Snoop Dogg, Lil Uzi Vert and Wale supported WWE over time, however a brand new lawsuit might make them suppose twice about it. A former WWE worker sued the wrestling firm’s longtime boss Vince McMahon for sexual assault and trafficking on Thursday (January 25).
The plaintiff, Janel Grant, accused McMahon of coercing her right into a sexual relationship when she labored for the WWE. Grant’s lawsuit detailed McMahon’s “wicked” actions, together with a disturbing allegation of him defecating on her in 2020.
“McMahon additionally subjected Ms. Grant to acts of utmost cruelty and degradation that brought about Ms. Grant to disassociate and/or develop into numb to actuality so as to survive the horrific encounters,” Grant’s legal professionals wrote. “As one instance of McMahon’s excessive depravity, on Might 9, 2020, he defecated on Ms. Grant throughout a threesome, after which commanded her to proceed pleasuring his ‘buddy’— with feces in her hair and operating down her again—whereas McMahon went to the lavatory to bathe off. Upon his return from the lavatory, McMahon and his ‘buddy’ actively resumed the threesome, which lasted over an hour and a half, whereas Ms. Grant remained lined in McMahon’s filth. When McMahon’s ‘buddy’ left, McMahon ordered her to remain and to proceed to sexually gratify him.”
Grant claimed McMahon sexually assaulted her on “quite a few events,” per courtroom paperwork obtained by AllHipHop. Grant mentioned McMahon degraded, humiliated, objectified and trafficked her. The lawsuit cited McMahon’s place of energy as a key think about Grant’s abuse, noting how he created a tradition of concern and secrecy within the WWE.
“Given McMahon’s all-powerful place at WWE, coercion was inherent in his more and more wicked sexual calls for,” Grant’s attorneys wrote. “Particularly, whereas McMahon was CEO of WWE and Ms. Grant was employed as an entry-level coordinator within the authorized division, McMahon recruited people to have sexual relations with Ms. Grant and/or with the 2 of them, directed Ms. Grant to go to Defendant [John] Laurinaitis previous to the beginning of workdays for sexual encounters, and anticipated and directed Ms. Grant to have interaction in sexual exercise on the WWE headquarters, even throughout working hours.”
Grant mentioned she suffered emotional misery with “bouts of PTSD introduced on by the conduct engaged in by McMahon.” She sought undisclosed damages and a declaratory judgment deeming her NDA as unenforceable.
WWE was named as a defendant within the lawsuit. McMahon stays the manager chairman of the WWE’s guardian firm TKO.