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The attorney representing a former WWE employee who claims she was sexually abused and trafficked by Vince McMahon said the “depravity” his client endured over the years is “one of a kind.”
Ann Callis, an attorney for former WWE staffer Janel Grant, said she previously worked for nine years as a felony judge overseeing murder and sexual assault cases, but the horrors her client suffered at the hands of McMahon are incomparable to anything you have ever encountered in your life. career.
“The sexual slavery that he endured, the devastating consequences that happened to him physically and mentally when he was going through this and he still suffers from this with PTSD – he was suicidal,” Callis told Ashleigh Banfield of NewsNation.
“This is one of a kind kind of depravity that she had to endure.”
Grant, who worked in the company’s legal and talent departments, alleged that McMahon forced her to have sexual relationships with WWE icons and executives, defecated on her during a threesome and aggressively used sex toys on her that she named in honor wrestling stars, which caused injuries. , according to the lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in Connecticut.
In addition to McMahon, Grant, 43, also named John Laurinaitis, the company’s former head of talent relations and general manager, in the 67-page lawsuit, alleging that the couple took turns holding her while they sexually assaulted her in the rooms. WWE offices. in June 2021.
The explosive court filing came after the Wall Street Journal reported last year that WWE was investigating an alleged $3 million payment that McMahon gave to an employee who left after a consensual affair.
Grant, whose name does not appear in the report, claims in the lawsuit that he received a $1 million payment after signing a confidentiality agreement, but no additional payment.
A subsequent investigation found that McMahon disbursed $14.6 million to several women who had accused him of sexual misconduct.
McMahon denied the allegations in the lawsuit, but announced Friday that he was stepping down as CEO of WWE parent company TKO Group Holdings.
TKO Group, which was created in September when the UFC and WWE merged, has said it is taking the allegations seriously and addressing them internally.