Vince McMahon (WWE/UFC) accused of rape/sex trafficking

[Roger Wilco]

I suppose this shouldn’t be surprising, but this is truly despicable.

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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.”

Grant alleged that McMahon shared nude photos and explicit videos of her without consent with other WWE employees, unnamed executives and stars, and directed her to have sex with them. The suit cited a July 2020 text that said others at WWE wanted to have sex with her after seeing photos on McMahon’s phone, and the group laughed when he told them, “She may scream and try to say NO!!although it would B difficult to say anything with a c— down her throat.”
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https://www.wsj.com/business/vince-mcmahon-accused-of-sex-trafficking-by-wwe-staffer-he-paid-to-keep-quiet-0b19b21c?st=x69u4p4hsxqi9zj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

 

[nakedfrog]

Uh oh, do we have a new contender for the GOP primaries on our hands here?

 

[HomerJS]

A feature in Republican circles.

 

[Thump553]

His wife was a prominent GOP candidate here in CT (never won thankfully). She supposedly is the brains behind the operation and as I recall was one of the few Trump cabinet members not involved in scandals. Wonder what she thinks?

 

[Wreckem]

His wife was a prominent GOP candidate here in CT (never won thankfully). She supposedly is the brains behind the operation and as I recall was one of the few Trump cabinet members not involved in scandals. Wonder what she thinks?

This is the same scandal that led him to previously stepping down from his positon and WWE and what most likely had him sellout to the owners of UFC.

He apparently stopped paying the agreed to settlement that tried to sweep everything under the rug. So now it’s all going to come out and it’s going to take down a lot of WWE personnel which should have happened in the first place.

He’s still under FBI investigation and this will likely help them further build their case as now they will have another cooperating witness no long under NDA.

 

[dank69]

His wife was a prominent GOP candidate here in CT (never won thankfully). She supposedly is the brains behind the operation and as I recall was one of the few Trump cabinet members not involved in scandals. Wonder what she thinks?

She probably doesn't give a fuck what he does to poor people.

 

[darkswordsman17]

I'm assuming this is a new claim and not part of the previous ones?

The other part is this supposedly takes place around the time he was booted from the company for the other allegations (most of which went back years and years ago, but establishes a long history of such conduct).

I believe he was brought back in order to get the UFC merger closed as the investors were concerned that WWE might go to shit without him, even though he's largely blamed for the WWE being shit these days by long time fans.

I think not long ago (couple of weeks maybe) a long time part of the production team, think he was basically the one that controlled the production (so how things were shot/framed, etc) left pretty suddenly and abruptly. Which, that guy gets mocked a lot, but I feel like he was so focused on the technical side of things that he doesn't strike me as someone that would have been involved or possibly even known about this type of shit, so maybe he caught wind of these allegations and wanted to GTFO before the shit hits the fan. However, since he would have been in control over so much of the recording, its almost guaranteed he would have had a high opportunity of catching some of this behavior on film/recorded.

This is the same scandal that led him to previously stepping down from his positon and WWE and what most likely had him sellout to the owners of UFC.

He apparently stopped paying the agreed to settlement that tried to sweep everything under the rug. So now it’s all going to come out and it’s going to take down a lot of WWE personnel which should have happened in the first place.

He’s still under FBI investigation and this will likely help them further build their case as now they will have another cooperating witness no long under NDA.

I think the timeline of these new claims would have occurred around the time he stepped down, I'll have to see if I can find a timeline of things. Also, I'm not saying it refutes the claims, as I believe even though he "stepped down" he was still functionally there (as in he was still in WWE offices, I want to say I heard people say he was even still having input on the creative side even though he supposedly stepped down), so could be extra problematic that free of his responsibilities running the company he instead was just sexually assaulting employees, while still in office.

And yeah, he basically got pissed off not long after having stepped down and took the stance that he should've never stepped down. Seems to be he got mad that despite paying the hush money this stuff still got out.

But him coming back I think was actually pushed for by the new owners as they were worried him no longer being there would tank the value, leading to the merger being a failure.

Yeah, these new allegations are extra problematic and I'll be surprised if any of the execs, and especially the long time top circle (including his wife, daughter, son, son-in-law, and the other long time execs that helped cover up the other, going back to the "ring boys", steroids, and other scandals) don't get implicated as well.

Which, hopefully there might finally be some comeuppance, as it sounds like he really is one of those shitty tyrants that kept getting away with shit over and over and over. There's already been some in depth look at Vince, Behind the Bastards podcast had a 6 part series on him that honestly only scratched the surface in most respects. But then, if Turmp somehow gets back in, expect this will be quashed so quickly that I'll be surprised if Turmp doesn't turne WWE into his weekly "fireside chat" thing.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Yup sounds like VP quality guy to me

 

[brycejones]

Yup sounds like VP quality guy to me

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I hope she gets all the money if that's accurate and why isn't this tool facing charges?

 

[fskimospy]

What I like is that he grew himself a weird pedo-stache as if he were trying to dress for this event:

 

[UNCjigga]

Figures—he’s accused of rape and tries to go all “Mexican”.

 

[Pens1566]

What I like is that he grew himself a weird pedo-stache as if he were trying to dress for this event:

I'm not sure what looks worse ... the 'stache or the over the top all-over dye job.

 

[outriding]

Would not be surprised if Trump was not lumped into this..

 

[hal2kilo]

This is the same scandal that led him to previously stepping down from his positon and WWE and what most likely had him sellout to the owners of UFC.

He apparently stopped paying the agreed to settlement that tried to sweep everything under the rug. So now it’s all going to come out and it’s going to take down a lot of WWE personnel which should have happened in the first place.

He’s still under FBI investigation and this will likely help them further build their case as now they will have another cooperating witness no long under NDA.

The Vice Channel has a marvelous series about the WWE and the like, and one was specifically about Vince's shenanigans.

https://www.vicetv.com/en_us/video/vince-mcmahon-special/62f6b7cd33f2d312cc6b206b

 

[nakedfrog]

What I like is that he grew himself a weird pedo-stache as if he were trying to dress for this event:

When you order John Waters from Temu.

 

[Pohemi]

This is why I posted his name in the Donnie VP pick thread. Vindoucher is the perfect mate for TwoScoops, two peas in a pod. Total slimeball, and now an accused sexual predator as well.

 

[Wreckem]

I hope she gets all the money if that's accurate and why isn't this tool facing charges?

He’s under investigation by the feds.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Turns out this woman's situation was actually what triggered the original scandal a couple of years ago. I think someone in the company overheard details so went to HR or something, which then because the company is basically following the "PR master class" method for how they operate (his daughter at one point posted on Twitter by accident how all their charity outreach was basically just to get positive PR), to in some ways cover it up but look like they did the right thing, they hired a law firm to investigate (which now has to be questioned how well they investigated) and that's when a lot of the stuff came out (although I think a lot of that had been kinda known/rumored for years in the industry - but the industry literally is built on appearances and keeping things under wraps).

Apparently this situation didn't turn up in the investigation, which seems to be due to her actually holding to the NDA. Sadly (I say this because of the inherent sadness and that it potentially would have kept this behavior secret, enabling it to continue), seems the reason she filed was because Vince stopped paying the hush money (which I think was borne out of Turmp getting away with his shenanigans), so she basically is lawyering up to get out of the NDA (which pretty sure the NDA can't cover such criminal behavior, but she was apparently willing to hold to it as long as she got paid; plus I think sexual assault victims would probably often prefer that so they don't have to talk about it publicly, let alone face our shitty justice system's handling of sexual assault).

There's starting to be rumors that there might be a lot of this type of behavior that goes on, with stars and promotions making people sign NDAs to not talk about things (not all of it is sexual assault or the like, just that pushing NDAs seems to be common in the industry - which I think is more just the industry following the new normalcy of that stuff; talk about an area that needs tort reform!). There could be a lot more to this story, and if this ends up in a criminal trial, this could become one of the craziest trials ever.

 

[Wreckem]

This evening he resigned all positions and titles for TKO and WWE.

 

[borosp1]

This evening he resigned all positions and titles for TKO and WWE.

Did Vince give back his 1999 WWE championship title?