Janel Grant has given additional proof in an amended lawsuit towards Vince McMahon, WWE, and John Laurinaitis.
[Trigger warning – the following article will discuss sexual assault and abuse]
In January 2024, former WWE worker Janel Grant filed a lawsuit towards Vince McMahon, John Laurinaitis, and WWE that contained horrifying allegations of grooming, abuse, and intercourse trafficking. The go well with is looking for to void a earlier NDA and seeks monetary damages of an unspecified quantity.
Though he denies the allegations, the lawsuit led to McMahon resigning from all duties with TKO and WWE the identical month.
Janel Grant’s crew has now filed a movement to amend the go well with with additional proof together with new textual content messages and voicemail transcripts. Grant’s Lawyer, Ann Callis, issued an announcement to clarify that the up to date model consists of new particulars of the abuse Grant is alleged to have suffered from McMahon.
“Ms. Grant’s amended criticism reveals new particulars that additional display the sexual abuse Janel Grant suffered by the hands of Vince McMahon and John Laurinaitis and pulls again the curtain on the harmful office tradition McMahon created at WWE,
“Ms. Grant seems ahead to holding her abusers accountable in a court docket of regulation.”
BREAKING: Janel Grant’s lawyer filed an amended criticism towards @VinceMcMahon, @JohnLaurinaitis & @WWE, with new proof that Ms. Grant was handled as a sexual commodity on the firm.
Assertion from Ann Callis, Lawyer for Janel Grant: pic.twitter.com/wbbEVCllkJ
— WWE Survivors (@WWESurvivors) February 1, 2025
Within the amended go well with, Grant names Brock Lesnar after beforehand referring to him solely as “WWE Famous person.” Grant alleges that McMahon supplied Lesnar a sexual encounter with Grant throughout his formal contract negotiations. Additionally it is claimed that McMahon ordered Grant to ship sexually express content material of herself to Lesnar throughout this era.
Different amendments embody:
“Company Officer No.1” and “Company Officer No. 2” are named as Nick Khan and Brad Blum respectively.Allegations that McMahon ordered Grant to create “personalized pornographic content material” for Michael Hayes and his crew in 2020.The addition of a transcript of a voice message McMahon left for Grant repeatedly asking her to signal the NDA and telling her, “We have to work on this actually f**kin’ quick in any other case I’m double f**ked.”Allegations that, after Grant moved to Expertise Relations, WWE constructed a brand new “customized nook workplace suite to Laurinaitis’ style” that shared a wall with Paul Levesque’s (Triple H) workplace. The design meant that Grant’s workplace had an inside door connecting straight into Laurinaitis’ workplace. Khan and Blum have been allegedly concerned with the planning of this workplace, and designs are offered within the amended go well with.Allegations that McMahon “recklessly obtained” nude pictures from Grant whereas being filmed for a documentary, with footage of him viewing the photographs airing on Netflix in 2024 “for the world to see.”
Vince McMahon Responds To Amended Lawsuit
In mild of the up to date allegations, McMahon’s representatives responded to BJ Bethel of SEScoops, claiming that it was a “publicity stunt.”
“As anticipated, the proposed amended criticism is nothing greater than the most recent publicity stunt in an ongoing smear marketing campaign. It’s full of determined falsehoods from a crew that continues to ignore the regulation and the reality,”
Reps for Vince McMahon despatched me the next assertion from lawyer Jessica Rosenberg on Janel Grant’s amended criticism. pic.twitter.com/tLm2sZiwoP
— B. J. Bethel (@BJBethelTweets) February 1, 2025
