Vince McMahon accused of Sex Trafficking / Resignation 🧵

MarkP · January 25, 2024, 11:15pm

Photo that has aged poorly.

Gerrit · January 25, 2024, 11:50pm

I am all out of words. This is crazy. Keep enjoying that disgusting WWE company. I am going home

MarkP · January 25, 2024, 11:56pm

It’s funny. Yesterday I was thinking - okay, maybe since they’re going to Netflix in Canada, which I already subscribe to, I can start to watch again and still not directly financially support them.

And then this comes out. And unless there are major cultural changes in the company, I can’t see myself giving it another chance.

Alex_Patel · January 26, 2024, 1:06am

Completely disgusting and shocking, to be honest, even knowing him.

The sad part is, I’m not sure what the legal ramifications are here. It all comes down to consent I think – we already know he was paying off women and even though it’s disgusting for an old man in power to do that it’s probably not a legal unless they don’t consent to it.

This girl clearly claims that she said no many times, but I’m sure Vince and his lawyers will harp on the fact that she was with him for a long time and they were probably some consensual encounters mixed in there as well. Hopefully justice prevails

TheBenjamin · January 26, 2024, 1:31am

https://x.com/commons37481141/status/1750580222297059693?s=46&t=JWp1FDcxOniaaPmFyvmyrg

HHH and Steph were part of that “special committee”. Never bothered contacting Grant. They are all in the same boat. Get rid of them all

MarkP · January 26, 2024, 2:11am

fethiye · January 26, 2024, 8:20am

miroa12004:

These are excerpts from the lawsuit that was filed against Vince

21 - In June 2021, McMahon and Defendant Laurinaitis sexually assaulted Ms. Grant inside Laurinaitis’ office in WWE headquarters while colleagues were busy at their desks. Behind a locked door, the two men cornered her and pulled her in between them, forcibly touched her, before ultimately putting her on top of a table in between them. She begged them to stop, but they forced themselves on her, each taking turns restraining her for the other, while saying “No means yes” and “Take it, bitch”

22 - Unsurprisingly, others at WWE knew what was going on. But instead of intervening to protect Ms. Grant, WWE actively sought to conceal the wrongdoing.

183 - McMahon and Laurinaitis ignored her plea and brought her into Laurinaitis’ office, forcibly touching and undressing her before forcing her to engage in a threesome on a conference table. Ms. Grant pleaded, “No, no, no” and “Please stop”, McMahon responded with “No means yes” Ms. Grant again told them to stop. Instead, McMahon licked his fingers and penetrated Ms. Grant and said, “Take it, bitch." With each taking turns restraining her for the other, Laurinaitis then joined by forcibly shoving his tongue, then penis, into Ms. Grant’s mouth.

184 - On June 23, 2021, around 11:42am, McMahon directed Ms. Grant – in the middle of a workday - to meet him on a lower floor. When Ms. Grant arrived, McMahon led her inside his private locker room, locked the door, and forced himself on her fethiye tours over a massage table. Later that day, $15,000 in gift cards to Bloomingdales were purchased at McMahon’s direction and delivered by McMahon’s personal assistant to Ms. Grant in her office.

149 - For instance, on August 28, 2020, Ms. Grant texted McMahon that she was injured during their latest sexual encounter, as a result of McMahon’s insistence on penetrating Ms. Grant with “extra-large” sex toys, including a vibrating wand that caused her to panic. McMahon ignored Ms. Grant’s warning that the device was not meant for insertion and forcefully shoved the wand inside of her so deeply that it became stuck for a period. She texted she was in pain and “bleeding a lot between last night and today” and “I’m on the floor right now bcuz I can’t get comfortable” and on August 29, 2020, she texted him an update that she was “still really uncomfortable” and “I got hurt in some way that I’m having trouble describing.” McMahon did apologize, saying that “Sometimes I just get carried away.”

We are not talking about unwanted sexual advances, we have crossed into possible rape charges here. If there is proof of these text messages and of these encounters then this is a much bigger deal than a civil lawsuit and everyone who enabled & covered McMahon’s behavior should be trialed with him for obstruction of justice.

Thanks for information

Burakiosaurus · January 26, 2024, 9:23am

Ari will drop Vince and it will all be settled.

Kahiliaulani · January 26, 2024, 2:36pm

This is sadly and ridiculously similar to Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby. Everyone in the industry knew about what was going on with Harvey Weinstein but didn’t step in and report what was going on for decades due to both of fear of personal safety and career.

With Bill Cosby, similar to Vince McMahon, this was my childhood heroes. So this really hits hard.

It was speculated that Vince was sexually abused when he was younger, via a close family member, so these actions might be the ignition that started these assault.

My other problem is why is the media posting a photo of the complainant/victim?

jallonar4040 · January 26, 2024, 2:56pm

THIS… Them releasing her photo does not help the situation at all.

MarkP · January 26, 2024, 3:06pm

My assumption at this point - given the suit is public, and she went to the WSJ - that her image being shown was agreed upon.

Last year though, thanks to WWE, Brad Shephard released her name and photo. Which was a completely different situation.

MarkP · January 26, 2024, 3:07pm

Countless outlets are now reporting on this. Hopefully this story won’t go away, and people will actually be held accountable this time.

RaceyJaycee · January 26, 2024, 3:10pm

It’s interesting to see Time and ESPN shying away from the “traffic” verbiage while others have the accusation in the headline.

MarkP · January 26, 2024, 3:14pm

I think part of it is a game of thesaurus and trying to have a different headline than every other outlet. And, I’m sure to a degree - some of these are being covered with kid gloves, in the fact all of these conglomerates work together to some degree or another.

jallonar4040 · January 26, 2024, 3:30pm

From CBC News:

And Dave Meltzer being interviewed on this.

MarkP · January 26, 2024, 3:38pm

Seems like Orton is getting some attention too right now based on this…

jallonar4040 · January 26, 2024, 3:48pm

I probably shouldn’t post this here but Corny and Brian Last’s reaction. You can make your opinion on how they reacted.

TriggerHippie · January 26, 2024, 4:37pm

I ended up reading the complaint yesterday and had to stop at several points as it was making me physically squeamish. As a sexual assault survivor myself, and as a former deputy sheriff who investigated my fair shair of sexual assault cases, this was absolutely one of the most disturbing and depraved things I have ever read in my life. I feel absolutely horrible for the victim here and hope she gets justice.

ThatChumpStain · January 26, 2024, 5:10pm

I don’t really have a ton of words on it, but it both surprises me and doesn’t surprise me, if that makes sense. You can see that there were skeletons always going to come out, but the level of depravity, the objectification, the level that it spreads far and wide to…

Is it the company or the business as a whole that’s just messed up?

Kahiliaulani · January 26, 2024, 5:55pm

I understand everything is about money at the end of the day. But would a scandal like this mess up a deal with Netflix or maybe Dwayne Johnson, whom currently has a daughter in the system and is ridiculously a GM?