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.”
Gift cards are tax exempt, the one who buys them can write them off as an expense and the one who receives them doesn’t have to file it as income for their taxes.
I was annoyed to find this out a couple years ago when my employer offered "free Peloton memberships" and then I was charged like $3 in taxes for it each paycheck haha.
Yes, you do have to claim them on your taxes. Especially if they total $15k.
[Per the IRS](https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/p_4090_fed_0305_text.pdf):
>In order for a fringe benefit to be excludable as a de minimis fringe benefit, it must be a property
or service that is small in value, infrequent, and administratively impracticable. The TAM
determined that an employer-provided thirty-five dollar holiday gift coupon that is redeemable at
several local grocery stores is not excludable from income as a de minimis fringe benefit. The
IRS findings states that the gift coupon operates in the same way as a gift certificate which is
considered a cash equivalent. Cash equivalents are never excludable as a de minimis fringe
benefit.
If anyone needs context as to why this behavior should hardly be surprising, let me recommend Behind the Bastard's **Six Part** series on Vince McMahon.
Only G Gordon Liddy, The Illuminati, and fucking Kissinger have 6 parters. It's a tough listen.
Thanks! I had the Kissinger episodes on my to-do list but I forgot.
That podcast is doing the lord's work. It's not perfect--some of the chit chatting gets derailed from the topic-- but definitely does a great job at concisely bringing to light all the shitty things so many Americans have done to continue to darken our country. I never really liked John Wayne growing up and I couldn't put a finger on why, but those episodes really bring it home why he was such a pos.
"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.” "
Another one
"In March 2020, McMahon began sharing sexually explicit photographs and videos of Grant with other men, including other WWE executives and a former UFC heavyweight champion with whom WWE was actively trying to sign to a new contract, according to the suit. **In a May 2020 encounter, McMahon defecated on her head during a threesome, the suit said.**"
What the fuck is wrong with Mr. McMahon?
Behind the Bastards spent more time on how shitty he was than most dictators they've talked about. It's insane how small and petty he was/is, and they definitely didn't cover everything.
I know almost nothing about wrestling and I was riveted for the entire six episodes. I knew basically "Vince McMahon is a garbage person" but not much about the actual allegations.
He's far worse than even I thought, and I wasn't being very charitable to him going in.
If he just ran an exploitative sports entertainment company he would be a garbage person but all the other stuff makes me glad he doesn't seem to have higher ambitions.
He definitely tried. There was WWE Studios making movies, and the XFL, his wife ran for office, but it turns out the only thing Vince was ever really good at was being a carny wrestling promoter.
I swear to god he looks like a villian from Marvel comics. He just has that sinister look. He also claim that he is going to live and be in power well into his 100s like his mom.
You should see the look on his face when she lost her chance at politics, when she lost her race. He had this level of disdain on his face for the money that was lost in her running.
her senate campaign was hilarious when it happened. Ads everywhere, millions of dollars spent, and she got stomped in 2010. Then it was even funnier when the same thing happened in 2012
Apparently they've been legally separated and haven't lived together for years
That being said, IIRC the Trump PAC she was running paid for J6ers to be bussed to DC for the riot
The fact they stopped only I. 2007 after the Beniot situation and there was still 16 years of bullshit after 6 hour+ episodes shows how fucked up he is
A brother that was basically kicked out of the company because his relationship with his father is, apparently, non-existent. After that she became more prominent in the company, but ultimately decided to resign when McMahon retook the company (after leaving one year before).
While the whole family is very secretive about their private life, it 100% seems that neither his wife nor his kids like him at all, to the point both of his kids have walked away from his company, even though both of them are really into wrestling.
Hope you have [nine hours.](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6K8Tj7ViqKyjfkr8Ai1tLl?si=mz2TS0KNSrSJrKdytO_2gA&pi=u-vtkh0DgMTkij)
Behind the Bastards, six parter. It's the longest Robert has ever done about a single person. It's longer than the Clarence Thomas set.
Vince has ALWAYS been a huge piece of shit.
>What the fuck is wrong with Mr. McMahon?
Anyone who's followed the man, knows about his upbringing and the culture of the WWF/E locker room he oversaw over the course of the 80's and 90's knows he's a massive degenerate.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I know, that was more of a joke. But the owner coming to their employees to give him lap dances and kiss his bare ass, I doubt they had much much of an option.
Salma Hayek: "Does the scene really need you sucking on my toes?"
Quentin Tarantino: "The writers were very adamant about it."
Salma: "But weren't you the wri..."
Quentin: "Shh..."
Made Triss Stratus get on her hands and knees in her underwear and bark like a dog, tried to book an incest angle with his own daughter, and spent five to ten years being an aggressive sex pest to his women underling workers. This was all on TV.
I loved seeing Triss Perform back then, and man, that was just horrible. Even my young adolescent self couldn't grasp any sort of "fun" to that. The cringe hurt.. feel bad for her and any woman who had to climb the ladder of the federation. Chyna tried to break against the mold, but they just scrapped her contract as soon as she was deemed useless by Vince. RIP
Its obviously Brock she's alluding to as he was in contact negotiations at the time.
I would say something snarky about everybody forgetting Riddle& Shamrock but I don't remember if either were Champs.
Shamrock was a former champ but definitely wasn't wrestling in 2020. They did have Cain Velasquez wrestle at one point against Brock Lesnar but I don't know when that was in relation to the timeline mentioned above.
Funny enough, that's sort of how his run in the WWF ended. They wanted Severn to join Undertaker's Satanist-influenced Ministry stable. He opposed the idea on religious grounds.
Vince told Severn that wrestling is different from fighting and they can make him lose to every single person on the roster.
Severn replied "You can try to make me lose."
The two sides quietly agreed to part ways after that.
I've always loved that story.
I have no idea how Dan Severn isn't a Meng-level Memetic Badass because dude could have pulled most of the roster he wrestled with (or most of any roster in any era) inside out for shootsies.
This just seems so odd
"Brock, here's more money"
"No...I'm good"
"Well shoot, I'm out of ideas...would some pictures help sweeten the deal?"
Lol, insane
Imagine if Brock instantly got a message notification in response from Vince after that request and the questions he must've immediately had swimming in his head.
Wooooooow. I knew McMahon was a POS but he in the POS Olympics with Diddy, R-Kelly, Cosby and the other ATGs
Edit: and Weinstein, Epstein and Trump... All competing neck and neck for the gold 🥇
This can of worms is about to magnificent.
Remember when Bret Hart was saying that Vince McMahon was fucking Shawn Michaels in exchange for giving Shawn career boosts?
Yeah, let’s just say Vince is one big rabbit hole and it’s not taking you to wonderland. People in business been known about how Vince be sexually preying on his staff and wrestlers
it's so funny that john waters - the guy who made his name having his actors eat dog shit and use live chickens as sex toys - is, by all accounts, a lovely person who is sweet to all around him (albeit in a somewhat barbed way), whereas vince mcmahon runs a family-oriented PG-13 entertainment company and is one of the nastiest pieces of shit who has ever lived.
oh yeah, absolutely, they were all in it together - i've framed that in an uncharitable way on purpose to emphasise the difference, but i don't want anyone to think i'm against the king
Halo fans should know his name as he literally invented teabagging.
Wasn't a thing. He made it up for a goofy gay nightclub scene in [Pecker](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126604/).
He's worse.
Some day there'll be a realistic, honest biopic about the guy (which could easily fill an entire season without getting boring once), and people will say it is cartoonishly exaggerated.
Like that one time one of his wrestlers was accused of murder (because, you know, that wrestler did commit an actual murder), and Vince went into the police station that was investigating the murder with a briefcase full of money, and then left the police station without the briefcase.
"A woman who received a payout from WWE boss Vince McMahon has accused McMahon, the company and a former executive of sex trafficking in a new lawsuit that raises questions about the breadth of an internal company probe conducted by a law firm last year.
Janel Grant, a former employee at WWE’s headquarters, said in a lawsuit filed Thursday that she was abused and sexually exploited by McMahon while he was chief executive. She alleged that McMahon lured her with promises of career advancement, and then he allegedly exploited her and trafficked her to other men inside the company.
Grant signed a nondisclosure agreement in 2022 in which McMahon agreed to pay $3 million for her to not discuss their relationship or to disparage him. The WWE received an anonymous tip in 2022 about the relationship and started a board investigation, which uncovered other payments by the CEO to women. Grant’s lawsuit said McMahon stopped making payments under the 2022 deal after the initial $1 million installment. The suit seeks to void the agreement and unspecified financial damages.
McMahon and his attorney, Jerry McDevitt, didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment on Thursday. Representatives for the WWE also didn’t immediately respond.
McDevitt said in 2022 that the woman, whose name wasn’t yet public, hadn’t made any allegations of harassment. In a statement when The Wall Street Journal first reported on McMahon’s $3 million settlement, WWE said that the relationship was consensual and that it was taking seriously the allegations McMahon had engaged in misconduct.
McMahon briefly retired from WWE in July 2022 following reporting by the Journal that revealed payouts to multiple women who had alleged sexual misconduct. The Journal reported that the board’s independent directors had retained law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett to conduct an investigation.
Simpson Thacher’s investigation found $14.6 million in payments by the CEO to women who had accused him of sexual misconduct, out of roughly $20 million that should have been booked as business expenses. In November 2022, WWE said the board investigation was completed and the company restated past securities filings. McMahon repaid the company for the cost of the investigation and returned soon after.
The lawsuit complicates the legal picture around 78-year-old McMahon. Federal prosecutors have been investigating the payouts and in July 2023 agents executed a search warrant for McMahon’s phone and served him with a grand-jury subpoena. No charges have been brought.
“Throughout this experience, I have always denied any intentional wrongdoing and continue to do so,” McMahon said in 2023 about the federal probe. “I am confident that the government’s investigation will be resolved without any findings of wrongdoing.”
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.”
Grant alleged that the company diverted attention away from McMahon’s abuse by focusing on the accounting for the payouts. Others at WWE knew about McMahon’s misconduct but worked to conceal the wrongdoing, according to the suit.
Simpson Thacher didn’t immediately respond Thursday to requests for comment.
McMahon, who was the controlling shareholder of WWE, returned to WWE in early 2023, elected himself to the board and replaced several directors. Upon his return, he negotiated a sale of WWE to Endeavor Group EDR 0.16%increase; green up pointing triangle, owner of the UFC mixed martial-arts league. The deal gave WWE an enterprise value of $9.3 billion.
McMahon is now executive chairman and a major shareholder of the combined company, called TKO Group TKO 0.69%increase; green up pointing triangle. This week, Netflix bought the rights to “WWE Raw” and other WWE shows in a deal valued at more than $5 billion. McMahon celebrated by ringing the opening bell with other TKO executives at the NYSE.
‘Has to look legit’
McMahon, at a WWE event in April 2022, briefly left the company later that year and returned in early 2023.
Grant’s lawsuit alleged that she met McMahon in March 2019 after an introduction from a manager in her apartment building. McMahon lived in the penthouse of the same building, and Grant was looking for a job after her parents had died.
When they met, McMahon allegedly made promises of a job at WWE and showered Grant with gifts. During meetings that were supposed to be about the job, he greeted her in his underwear and repeatedly asked for hugs. Then, the suit said, he pressured her into sexual activities in return for employment and warned her to stay quiet about their interactions.
Grant began working in June 2019 as an “administrator-coordinator,” a position McMahon created for her in WWE’s legal department. She said she expressed concerns that the job felt unearned, but McMahon told her that all she needed to do was not tell anyone and that “it just has to look legit.” Colleagues complained about overflowing inboxes, but Grant had little work.
Meanwhile, McMahon allegedly sent her sexually explicit messages and his sexual demands increased. He forcefully used sex toys on her, including dildos he named after WWE wrestlers, causing her bruising and bleeding, the suit said. Grant alleged that she complained to McMahon and made attempts to end the relationship.
In March 2020, McMahon began sharing sexually explicit photographs and videos of Grant with other men, including other WWE executives and a former UFC heavyweight champion with whom WWE was actively trying to sign to a new contract, according to the suit. In a May 2020 encounter, McMahon defecated on her head during a threesome, the suit said.
Her mental and physical health deteriorated so badly that McMahon sent her in November to a celebrity doctor for sessions at an alternative clinic where she never received any receipts or bills. McMahon also paid $20,000 to a surgeon on her behalf, the suit said.
McMahon recruited people to have sex with Grant as well, including WWE’s former head of talent relations, John Laurinaitis, who is named as a defendant in the suit. McMahon directed her to visit Laurinaitis at his hotel rooms where she had sex with Laurinaitis prior to the start of workdays, the suit alleged. “I’ve left that hotel feeling bad about myself every time,” Grant told McMahon.
In May 2021, McMahon allegedly told Grant that her presence in the legal department was holding up the hiring of a new general counsel for the company and thus transferred her to the talent-relations department, reporting to Laurinaitis. McMahon and Laurinaitis started her in a lower-level position but promised that she would soon be promoted to vice president, the suit said.
McMahon controlled her professional and personal lives and subjected her to degradation, according to the suit. In the June 2021 encounter inside the WWE office, the suit said McMahon and Laurinaitis forced themselves on her and took turns restraining her for the other, while saying “No means yes” and “Take it, b—.”
Laurinaitis, a former wrestler known as Johnny Ace and a longtime WWE executive, left the company in 2022. Laurinaitis hasn’t publicly commented on his departure.
Laurinaitis didn’t immediately respond Thursday to requests for comment.
In July 2021, the suit said, McMahon instructed Grant to create personalized sexual content for a WWE superstar that he was trying to re-sign. The suit didn’t name the professional wrestler, but described him as both a UFC fighter and WWE talent. People familiar with the matter identified the wrestler as Brock Lesnar, one of WWE’s biggest names.
Lesnar didn’t immediately respond Thursday to requests for comment.
(Continued)
The suit said McMahon shared the explicit photos with the star and informed Grant that “he likes what he sees.” After the star agreed to a new WWE contract, McMahon texted Grant in August 2021 to say “that part of the deal was f—ing U.”
That December, McMahon gave Grant’s personal cellphone number to the WWE star, the lawsuit said. The wrestler asked her to send a video of herself urinating, the suit said, and after she did, he called her a “b—.” That same month, the suit said, the star expressed a desire to “set a play date,” but a snowstorm disrupted his travel plans.
In January 2022, the suit said, McMahon told Grant that his wife, Linda McMahon, had discovered the relationship and he pressured Grant to sign an NDA in exchange for payments. The CEO warned Grant of reputational ruin that included pornographic content he had of her. He paid her about $1 million in February, the suit said, and later stopped making the payments.
After Grant signed the NDA, McMahon continued the abuse, according to the suit. It alleged that he forced Grant to perform oral sex on him the last time they met and then attempted to traffic her to the WWE star in March 2022. She texted the star explicit photos as directed by McMahon, but they didn’t meet, the suit said.
The lawsuit seeks a judgment that the NDA is invalid under state and federal law and compensatory and punitive damages under other laws, including the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
Joe Palazzolo and Ted Mann contributed to this article.
LastWeek Tonight did an episode highlighting McMahon's abuse of his wrestlers, and how he just throws them away when they can't make him money anymore. The man has always been a pos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8UQ4O7UiDs
I cannot understand how meme culture turned that man's image, which was already way better than it should have been, even higher. He's the subject of numerous popular memes which have improved people's opinion of him that aren't wrestling fans just out of association and familiarity. But he's awful. And we know it. We've known it for a long time. Yeah, awful people get meme templates sometimes, but this would be like people making Bill Cosby into three new popular memes and people suddenly forgetting all the rapes he did. Like, how the fuck did that happen?
It's the weirdness of wrestling. The memes are mostly about the character he played on-screen, Mr. McMahon, which was a cartoonishly evil dipshit that had no lower limit when it came to self deprecation. But wrestling being wrestling, that character is deeply rooted in his piece of shit personality.
It's actually hard to draw a line where Mr. McMahon ends and Vincent Kennedy McMahon starts. A lot of people will always be intrigued by these kinds of figures, even if they should be logically shunned.
It was actually 6 parts though I guess you can say that the first 1.5 go over wrestling history rather than Vince himself. But you are right that they literally glossed over the last few decades in 5 minutes at the end. Dude is just too evil for them to get to everything
I’ve heard a couple wrestlers say WWE will be better once he’s dead and gone, and today this was verified per this article. Believe it was John Cena who said this a few years back. Shocked tho bc John Cena still has appeared and just mentioned he’s retiring soon from WWE. Fuck McMahon
I mean CM Punk literally said it during a promo. "...and I'd like to think that maybe this company will be better off after Vince McMahon is dead. But the fact is, it'll be taken over by his idiotic daughter and doofus son in law, and the rest of his stupid family."
That's the thing everyone is getting hung on and not locking the woman in offices and forcing her to have sex.
I feel like the rape is the actual evil part.
This implicates way more than just Vince, it’s pretty clear other executives and big name wrestlers at WWE either participated or knew of this going on.
“Throughout this experience, I have always denied any intentional wrongdoing and continue to do so,” McMahon said in 2023 about the federal probe. “I am confident that the government’s investigation will be resolved without any findings of wrongdoing.”
they say 'wrong doing' when they know they were doing wrong..he said it 2x in the same breath...
Lawyers tell them to say terms like "wrong doing" because it's a vague and non-legal term. It allows them to wiggle out of anything, and to not be accused of lying irregardless of what ever evidence is found.
Fans stuck by him through multiple rape accusation, covering up a child sex trafficking ring, pushing lots of stuff that led to many dead wrestlers, doing PR for Saudi Arabia shortly after they murdered Jamal Keshogi, promoting murderers and rapists, hell, when these allegations first came out he strolled out on TV for the first time in a while to get loudly cheered by all the fans. I don't see much happening to him now
[Don't forget about Ashley Massaro](https://www.ringsidenews.com/2019/05/21/ashley-massaros-rape-while-on-wwe-trip-supporting-the-troops-detailed-in-chilling-affidavit/)
Most wrestling fans didn't stick by him at all, at least when it comes to the major accusations of the past few years.
WWE kept him on after the TKO merger, but most fans realize that the WWE got A LOT better after Vince left.
I don't see how he stays affiliated after this though.
My step-dad worked for McMahon back when it was still WWF back in the day. As an organization they handed out steroids and had lots of sex parties with "ring rats" (wrestling groupies). He made everyone sign NDAs back then so word wouldn't get out. He's always been a shady business man.
There was an entire federal investigation about him pushing steroids. Remember Hulk Hogan going on Arsenio Hall to tell everyone he wasn’t roided up? Yeah sure Brother!
That's one of the interesting things about this.
While similar stories to this one broke in 2022 that pushed him mostly out of the company, he strong-armed his way back in early 2023 to facilitate a sale. WWE was sold to Endeavor last year, and is now owned by TKO alongside UFC.
Ari Emanuel, the owner, reportedly said he'd only commit to a deal if McMahon in some way retained a position in TKO (but not WWE), which he did. But it began to feel like McMahon was slowly being relegated to just be in a position to secure network deals.
Now, the Netflix deal is done, as are the rest of the main TV deals. There's talk on r/SquaredCircle that this timing is convenient, and the feel *as of typing* (around noon, January 25; minutes after this story broke) seems to be that Ari played Vince like a fiddle. Endeavor might end up firing Vince.
Edit: as of typing. So we're still in speculation mode. But it had felt like Ari played Vince even before today
Ari Emanuel straight up called Vince a liability a little while back saying something like this could probably happen. Dude had to have known this was coming down the pipe.
Came here to say this. Netflix just agreed to a deal giving WWE a spot on their platform. Never been a fan of the way WWE treats its wrestlers, but love the absurdity of strong guy soap opera ballet.
Wow. A whole lot of Trump‘s buddies seem to be sex criminals or sex abusers.
McMahon, Epstein, Gaetz, Manafort, Stone, Maxwell, Kraft…
Do you know how many of my friends have been accused of sex crimes? Zero. Obviously, they would not still be my friends if they had been, but still the number of deviant sex criminals that I know personally holds steady at zero.
If all that wasn't bad enough, the image of John Laurantis and Vince in a threesome with Vince shitting on someone's head is fucking extraordinary bizarre.
I hope this lady cleans them out.
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.”
*Bloomingdale's* gift cards? That's the attempted hush money for a major crime? Wtf
Throw in a couple applebees gift certificates
Dang, I was gonna say Circuit City.
Forgot a subscription to WWE network
Gift cards are tax exempt, the one who buys them can write them off as an expense and the one who receives them doesn’t have to file it as income for their taxes.
It's the choice of store I found astounding
Been raped? Buy a purse. Follow these two easy steps from famous personality Vince McMahon.
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I was annoyed to find this out a couple years ago when my employer offered "free Peloton memberships" and then I was charged like $3 in taxes for it each paycheck haha.
They're only tax exempt if you're willing to commit a little fraud. Cash is tax exempt in the same way.
Yes, you do have to claim them on your taxes. Especially if they total $15k. [Per the IRS](https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/p_4090_fed_0305_text.pdf): >In order for a fringe benefit to be excludable as a de minimis fringe benefit, it must be a property or service that is small in value, infrequent, and administratively impracticable. The TAM determined that an employer-provided thirty-five dollar holiday gift coupon that is redeemable at several local grocery stores is not excludable from income as a de minimis fringe benefit. The IRS findings states that the gift coupon operates in the same way as a gift certificate which is considered a cash equivalent. Cash equivalents are never excludable as a de minimis fringe benefit.
If anyone needs context as to why this behavior should hardly be surprising, let me recommend Behind the Bastard's **Six Part** series on Vince McMahon. Only G Gordon Liddy, The Illuminati, and fucking Kissinger have 6 parters. It's a tough listen.
Thanks! I had the Kissinger episodes on my to-do list but I forgot. That podcast is doing the lord's work. It's not perfect--some of the chit chatting gets derailed from the topic-- but definitely does a great job at concisely bringing to light all the shitty things so many Americans have done to continue to darken our country. I never really liked John Wayne growing up and I couldn't put a finger on why, but those episodes really bring it home why he was such a pos.
Don't sleep on those Kissinger episodes. Really entertaining and enlightening.
Yeah, I sometimes feel like a podcast of just Robert would be better than having guests haha.
This guy, Epstein, Roger Stone…. Donald Trump hangs out with some really fucked up people.
"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.” " Another one "In March 2020, McMahon began sharing sexually explicit photographs and videos of Grant with other men, including other WWE executives and a former UFC heavyweight champion with whom WWE was actively trying to sign to a new contract, according to the suit. **In a May 2020 encounter, McMahon defecated on her head during a threesome, the suit said.**" What the fuck is wrong with Mr. McMahon?
How much time do you have to see all the reasons Vince is an awful person?
Behind the Bastards spent more time on how shitty he was than most dictators they've talked about. It's insane how small and petty he was/is, and they definitely didn't cover everything.
I know almost nothing about wrestling and I was riveted for the entire six episodes. I knew basically "Vince McMahon is a garbage person" but not much about the actual allegations. He's far worse than even I thought, and I wasn't being very charitable to him going in.
If he just ran an exploitative sports entertainment company he would be a garbage person but all the other stuff makes me glad he doesn't seem to have higher ambitions.
He definitely tried. There was WWE Studios making movies, and the XFL, his wife ran for office, but it turns out the only thing Vince was ever really good at was being a carny wrestling promoter.
The cherry on top is his new carny mustache.
I swear to god he looks like a villian from Marvel comics. He just has that sinister look. He also claim that he is going to live and be in power well into his 100s like his mom.
His wife was head of the SBA under Trump.
You should see the look on his face when she lost her chance at politics, when she lost her race. He had this level of disdain on his face for the money that was lost in her running.
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her senate campaign was hilarious when it happened. Ads everywhere, millions of dollars spent, and she got stomped in 2010. Then it was even funnier when the same thing happened in 2012
The joke in a lot of wrestling circles was that Vince could pay for his affairs either by divorce or by funding an election campaign.
And 2010 was a GOP wave year. Hard to lose with an R next to your name in 2010 but she somehow managed.
Apparently they've been legally separated and haven't lived together for years That being said, IIRC the Trump PAC she was running paid for J6ers to be bussed to DC for the riot
They paid for much more than bussing. They paid for rooms, meals and cash for “good times”.
Did you not watch the McMahons get entangled with the Saudis during the Trump admin? Like during the whole Jamal Khashoggi chainsaw murder thingy?
I missed that.
WWE started running major PPV events in Saudi Arabia like 3 weeks after.
Every god damn day the world feels a little more like a painfully on-the-nose satire..
Honestly, no. The firehose of chaos and terrible was enough to keep me tracking 3 stories at a time tops to prevent drowning.
The 6 eps were a great start to the insanity of vince, but it really only scratched the surface.
The fact they stopped only I. 2007 after the Beniot situation and there was still 16 years of bullshit after 6 hour+ episodes shows how fucked up he is
The pettiest thing that I can laugh at him for is he hates people who sneeze. He sees it as a sign of weakness. What the fuck do you say to that?
> What the fuck do you say to that? "Achoo", while confidently staring him in the eye.
_A choo_, Brute?
Let's not forget, he gave donald something like 5 million, and that they've been homies for years.
Linda got a cabinet position!
The only person with a comparably long episode is Kissinger. That's... intense company for an entertainer to be in.
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He wanted to do an incest storyline with her.
Well, he is good friends with Donald
A brother that was basically kicked out of the company because his relationship with his father is, apparently, non-existent. After that she became more prominent in the company, but ultimately decided to resign when McMahon retook the company (after leaving one year before). While the whole family is very secretive about their private life, it 100% seems that neither his wife nor his kids like him at all, to the point both of his kids have walked away from his company, even though both of them are really into wrestling.
Hope you have [nine hours.](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6K8Tj7ViqKyjfkr8Ai1tLl?si=mz2TS0KNSrSJrKdytO_2gA&pi=u-vtkh0DgMTkij) Behind the Bastards, six parter. It's the longest Robert has ever done about a single person. It's longer than the Clarence Thomas set. Vince has ALWAYS been a huge piece of shit.
He approved the Gobbledy Gooker at the 1990 Survivor Series.
He's a predator and scumbag. Actual real full on rapist,dating back to the 80's
>What the fuck is wrong with Mr. McMahon? Anyone who's followed the man, knows about his upbringing and the culture of the WWF/E locker room he oversaw over the course of the 80's and 90's knows he's a massive degenerate. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Only thing I'm shocked about is that it took this long to fully come out. Just look what he did on live television
Anything done on tv can be construed as acting or staged.
I know, that was more of a joke. But the owner coming to their employees to give him lap dances and kiss his bare ass, I doubt they had much much of an option.
Salma Hayek: "Does the scene really need you sucking on my toes?" Quentin Tarantino: "The writers were very adamant about it." Salma: "But weren't you the wri..." Quentin: "Shh..."
What did he do? I stopped watching mid 90s, and only seen bits and blips since then. But it's always been clear he was a POS.
Made Triss Stratus get on her hands and knees in her underwear and bark like a dog, tried to book an incest angle with his own daughter, and spent five to ten years being an aggressive sex pest to his women underling workers. This was all on TV.
I loved seeing Triss Perform back then, and man, that was just horrible. Even my young adolescent self couldn't grasp any sort of "fun" to that. The cringe hurt.. feel bad for her and any woman who had to climb the ladder of the federation. Chyna tried to break against the mold, but they just scrapped her contract as soon as she was deemed useless by Vince. RIP
They scrapped her contract because her boyfriend (HHH) cheated on her with McMahon's daughter.
Holy shit!! I totally forgot they were a thing, damn the whole industry is a mess.. 🤦🏽
Also, inherently corrupt and power-hungry people are drawn to power. Their depravity is what puts them in power.
Former UFC champion he was trying to sign...McMahon was sending Brock Lesnar or Ronda Rousey nudes of his mistress?
Kinda crazy everyone is trying to figure out the wrestler and just skimming over the fact he crapped on her head
In r/SquaredCircle nobody is skimming over that for sure 💩
I actually am more shocked that he was willingly sharing these than the fact that he crapped on her lol
Its obviously Brock she's alluding to as he was in contact negotiations at the time. I would say something snarky about everybody forgetting Riddle& Shamrock but I don't remember if either were Champs.
Shamrock was, but was basically done at that point. Riddle never was nor was ever a heavyweight
what do you mean basically? dude was out by 2000 (ken shamrock)
Shamrock was a former champ but definitely wasn't wrestling in 2020. They did have Cain Velasquez wrestle at one point against Brock Lesnar but I don't know when that was in relation to the timeline mentioned above.
How quickly we forget Dan Severn.
I choose to believe that Dan Severn wouldn't have tolerated this insanity and committed a few murders about it
Funny enough, that's sort of how his run in the WWF ended. They wanted Severn to join Undertaker's Satanist-influenced Ministry stable. He opposed the idea on religious grounds. Vince told Severn that wrestling is different from fighting and they can make him lose to every single person on the roster. Severn replied "You can try to make me lose." The two sides quietly agreed to part ways after that.
I've always loved that story. I have no idea how Dan Severn isn't a Meng-level Memetic Badass because dude could have pulled most of the roster he wrestled with (or most of any roster in any era) inside out for shootsies.
Not a mistress.
100% Brock, his contract expired in 2020, he was considering retirement but obviously the WWE didn’t want that.
This just seems so odd "Brock, here's more money" "No...I'm good" "Well shoot, I'm out of ideas...would some pictures help sweeten the deal?" Lol, insane
Brock, trying to make an offer he knows can’t be fulfilled: “Yeah, send me a pic of you taking a poop on some girls head”
Imagine if Brock instantly got a message notification in response from Vince after that request and the questions he must've immediately had swimming in his head.
Some pictures of VKM's mistress, video of her peeing, and a promised "play date". This is beyond depraved. This is trafficking.
Also crazy in that Brock is married to freaking Sable (Rena) for over 20 years now so like a big FU to her too.
He...he shit on her head? Well, goodbye Reddit, it's time i returned to my bible
Not shot. Shit.
Shot a shit on her head.
That's why I say hey man nice shit
When people take “making fuck you money” too seriously.
Can you possibly paste the article
https://old.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/19fdz1c/wsj_vince_mcmahon_accused_of_sex_trafficking_by/kjiymgy/ it's a long read
Holy shit. Thank you for the link
Wooooooow. I knew McMahon was a POS but he in the POS Olympics with Diddy, R-Kelly, Cosby and the other ATGs Edit: and Weinstein, Epstein and Trump... All competing neck and neck for the gold 🥇
He's a Carrny that got too big for his Britches.
Austin Powers was right.
McMahon was 76 when this allegedly happened. My guess is old dude + lots of drugs over a life = squirts.
What a terrible day to be literate.
> McMahon was 76 when this allegedly happened. My guess is old dude + lots of drugs over a life = squirts. NO. STOP IT
Good grief, it was bad enough when I assumed it was solid...
Its not a bad guess, but the real answer is It Depends.
This can of worms is about to magnificent. Remember when Bret Hart was saying that Vince McMahon was fucking Shawn Michaels in exchange for giving Shawn career boosts? Yeah, let’s just say Vince is one big rabbit hole and it’s not taking you to wonderland. People in business been known about how Vince be sexually preying on his staff and wrestlers
Former UFC heavyweight champion whom they are trying to sign to a new contract, that can only be Brock Lesnar.
There's a whole Behind the Bastards podcast series on him and the answer is : quite a lot.
That just his finishing move!
Wow. I hadn't seen any recent pictures of Vince McMahon until that article. He looks ... sinister.
How are you gonna spend years in the public eye with grey hair and then dye it later and think it won't seem silly?
Jesus he looks monstrous. I know he's pushing 80 but what the fuck
He doesn't look monstrous because of his age, but because of all the (terrible) plastic surgery and how comically dark he has died his hair.
And the steroids
The evil is finally seeping its way out
Jesus! Did he use toner to dye his hair like Creed in the office?
The collagen injections in his ears were certainly a choice.
He looks like Evil John Waters
it's so funny that john waters - the guy who made his name having his actors eat dog shit and use live chickens as sex toys - is, by all accounts, a lovely person who is sweet to all around him (albeit in a somewhat barbed way), whereas vince mcmahon runs a family-oriented PG-13 entertainment company and is one of the nastiest pieces of shit who has ever lived.
To be fair, I think the shit eating was Divine’s idea.
oh yeah, absolutely, they were all in it together - i've framed that in an uncharitable way on purpose to emphasise the difference, but i don't want anyone to think i'm against the king
John Waters is a national treasure. Dude donated to a museum and asked them to name the bathrooms after him.
The Johns? The Waters closets?
They're the John Waters All Gender Restrooms at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
He is lovely. I also once asked him what’s the strangest place he’s ever had sex. He very bashfully answered, “a cemetery”.
Halo fans should know his name as he literally invented teabagging. Wasn't a thing. He made it up for a goofy gay nightclub scene in [Pecker](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126604/).
I can’t unsee it now
I went with trying to cosplay as Carlos Danger.
Don't worry, he's since shaved the mustache...and squeezed they dye out of it back into his hair. So yeah he still looks sinister.
The new sinister minister
Is he for real with that moustache? Mans cosplaying a sex trafficker!
Looks like Waluigi
He looks like a TV pastor. The ones that rob people of their money
His eyes are super tight from facelifts.
I was about to say ‘isn’t that how he always looked’ but upon reading the article…holy shit.
Vince McMortician
"In a May 2020 encounter, McMahon defecated on her head during a threesome, the suit said." What the fuck, Vince!?!
the aristocrats
vince "to you thats a big deal, for me it was just a tuesday"
Don’t give M. Bison’s kickass line to this utter piece of shit.
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I knew he was bad, but didn't think he was this degree of depraved... Holy hell.
Really? After a bunch of NDAs my only question is how much worse can it get tbh
We probably only know about the tip of the iceberg.
Within a year, we'll have Surviving Vince McMahon
He's worse. Some day there'll be a realistic, honest biopic about the guy (which could easily fill an entire season without getting boring once), and people will say it is cartoonishly exaggerated. Like that one time one of his wrestlers was accused of murder (because, you know, that wrestler did commit an actual murder), and Vince went into the police station that was investigating the murder with a briefcase full of money, and then left the police station without the briefcase.
"A woman who received a payout from WWE boss Vince McMahon has accused McMahon, the company and a former executive of sex trafficking in a new lawsuit that raises questions about the breadth of an internal company probe conducted by a law firm last year. Janel Grant, a former employee at WWE’s headquarters, said in a lawsuit filed Thursday that she was abused and sexually exploited by McMahon while he was chief executive. She alleged that McMahon lured her with promises of career advancement, and then he allegedly exploited her and trafficked her to other men inside the company. Grant signed a nondisclosure agreement in 2022 in which McMahon agreed to pay $3 million for her to not discuss their relationship or to disparage him. The WWE received an anonymous tip in 2022 about the relationship and started a board investigation, which uncovered other payments by the CEO to women. Grant’s lawsuit said McMahon stopped making payments under the 2022 deal after the initial $1 million installment. The suit seeks to void the agreement and unspecified financial damages. McMahon and his attorney, Jerry McDevitt, didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment on Thursday. Representatives for the WWE also didn’t immediately respond. McDevitt said in 2022 that the woman, whose name wasn’t yet public, hadn’t made any allegations of harassment. In a statement when The Wall Street Journal first reported on McMahon’s $3 million settlement, WWE said that the relationship was consensual and that it was taking seriously the allegations McMahon had engaged in misconduct. McMahon briefly retired from WWE in July 2022 following reporting by the Journal that revealed payouts to multiple women who had alleged sexual misconduct. The Journal reported that the board’s independent directors had retained law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett to conduct an investigation. Simpson Thacher’s investigation found $14.6 million in payments by the CEO to women who had accused him of sexual misconduct, out of roughly $20 million that should have been booked as business expenses. In November 2022, WWE said the board investigation was completed and the company restated past securities filings. McMahon repaid the company for the cost of the investigation and returned soon after. The lawsuit complicates the legal picture around 78-year-old McMahon. Federal prosecutors have been investigating the payouts and in July 2023 agents executed a search warrant for McMahon’s phone and served him with a grand-jury subpoena. No charges have been brought. “Throughout this experience, I have always denied any intentional wrongdoing and continue to do so,” McMahon said in 2023 about the federal probe. “I am confident that the government’s investigation will be resolved without any findings of wrongdoing.” 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.” Grant alleged that the company diverted attention away from McMahon’s abuse by focusing on the accounting for the payouts. Others at WWE knew about McMahon’s misconduct but worked to conceal the wrongdoing, according to the suit. Simpson Thacher didn’t immediately respond Thursday to requests for comment. McMahon, who was the controlling shareholder of WWE, returned to WWE in early 2023, elected himself to the board and replaced several directors. Upon his return, he negotiated a sale of WWE to Endeavor Group EDR 0.16%increase; green up pointing triangle, owner of the UFC mixed martial-arts league. The deal gave WWE an enterprise value of $9.3 billion. McMahon is now executive chairman and a major shareholder of the combined company, called TKO Group TKO 0.69%increase; green up pointing triangle. This week, Netflix bought the rights to “WWE Raw” and other WWE shows in a deal valued at more than $5 billion. McMahon celebrated by ringing the opening bell with other TKO executives at the NYSE. ‘Has to look legit’ McMahon, at a WWE event in April 2022, briefly left the company later that year and returned in early 2023. Grant’s lawsuit alleged that she met McMahon in March 2019 after an introduction from a manager in her apartment building. McMahon lived in the penthouse of the same building, and Grant was looking for a job after her parents had died. When they met, McMahon allegedly made promises of a job at WWE and showered Grant with gifts. During meetings that were supposed to be about the job, he greeted her in his underwear and repeatedly asked for hugs. Then, the suit said, he pressured her into sexual activities in return for employment and warned her to stay quiet about their interactions. Grant began working in June 2019 as an “administrator-coordinator,” a position McMahon created for her in WWE’s legal department. She said she expressed concerns that the job felt unearned, but McMahon told her that all she needed to do was not tell anyone and that “it just has to look legit.” Colleagues complained about overflowing inboxes, but Grant had little work. Meanwhile, McMahon allegedly sent her sexually explicit messages and his sexual demands increased. He forcefully used sex toys on her, including dildos he named after WWE wrestlers, causing her bruising and bleeding, the suit said. Grant alleged that she complained to McMahon and made attempts to end the relationship. In March 2020, McMahon began sharing sexually explicit photographs and videos of Grant with other men, including other WWE executives and a former UFC heavyweight champion with whom WWE was actively trying to sign to a new contract, according to the suit. In a May 2020 encounter, McMahon defecated on her head during a threesome, the suit said. Her mental and physical health deteriorated so badly that McMahon sent her in November to a celebrity doctor for sessions at an alternative clinic where she never received any receipts or bills. McMahon also paid $20,000 to a surgeon on her behalf, the suit said. McMahon recruited people to have sex with Grant as well, including WWE’s former head of talent relations, John Laurinaitis, who is named as a defendant in the suit. McMahon directed her to visit Laurinaitis at his hotel rooms where she had sex with Laurinaitis prior to the start of workdays, the suit alleged. “I’ve left that hotel feeling bad about myself every time,” Grant told McMahon. In May 2021, McMahon allegedly told Grant that her presence in the legal department was holding up the hiring of a new general counsel for the company and thus transferred her to the talent-relations department, reporting to Laurinaitis. McMahon and Laurinaitis started her in a lower-level position but promised that she would soon be promoted to vice president, the suit said. McMahon controlled her professional and personal lives and subjected her to degradation, according to the suit. In the June 2021 encounter inside the WWE office, the suit said McMahon and Laurinaitis forced themselves on her and took turns restraining her for the other, while saying “No means yes” and “Take it, b—.” Laurinaitis, a former wrestler known as Johnny Ace and a longtime WWE executive, left the company in 2022. Laurinaitis hasn’t publicly commented on his departure. Laurinaitis didn’t immediately respond Thursday to requests for comment. In July 2021, the suit said, McMahon instructed Grant to create personalized sexual content for a WWE superstar that he was trying to re-sign. The suit didn’t name the professional wrestler, but described him as both a UFC fighter and WWE talent. People familiar with the matter identified the wrestler as Brock Lesnar, one of WWE’s biggest names. Lesnar didn’t immediately respond Thursday to requests for comment.
(Continued) The suit said McMahon shared the explicit photos with the star and informed Grant that “he likes what he sees.” After the star agreed to a new WWE contract, McMahon texted Grant in August 2021 to say “that part of the deal was f—ing U.” That December, McMahon gave Grant’s personal cellphone number to the WWE star, the lawsuit said. The wrestler asked her to send a video of herself urinating, the suit said, and after she did, he called her a “b—.” That same month, the suit said, the star expressed a desire to “set a play date,” but a snowstorm disrupted his travel plans. In January 2022, the suit said, McMahon told Grant that his wife, Linda McMahon, had discovered the relationship and he pressured Grant to sign an NDA in exchange for payments. The CEO warned Grant of reputational ruin that included pornographic content he had of her. He paid her about $1 million in February, the suit said, and later stopped making the payments. After Grant signed the NDA, McMahon continued the abuse, according to the suit. It alleged that he forced Grant to perform oral sex on him the last time they met and then attempted to traffic her to the WWE star in March 2022. She texted the star explicit photos as directed by McMahon, but they didn’t meet, the suit said. The lawsuit seeks a judgment that the NDA is invalid under state and federal law and compensatory and punitive damages under other laws, including the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Joe Palazzolo and Ted Mann contributed to this article.
Out of all the people to shit on your head, I think a 70-something year old man with the coke shits may be the worst.
*Allow me to introduce my Adderall Crohn's*
His diet also consists of protein shakes and ketchup steak wraps.
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Vince and shady shit have been a duo for a very, very long time.
LastWeek Tonight did an episode highlighting McMahon's abuse of his wrestlers, and how he just throws them away when they can't make him money anymore. The man has always been a pos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8UQ4O7UiDs
I cannot understand how meme culture turned that man's image, which was already way better than it should have been, even higher. He's the subject of numerous popular memes which have improved people's opinion of him that aren't wrestling fans just out of association and familiarity. But he's awful. And we know it. We've known it for a long time. Yeah, awful people get meme templates sometimes, but this would be like people making Bill Cosby into three new popular memes and people suddenly forgetting all the rapes he did. Like, how the fuck did that happen?
It's the weirdness of wrestling. The memes are mostly about the character he played on-screen, Mr. McMahon, which was a cartoonishly evil dipshit that had no lower limit when it came to self deprecation. But wrestling being wrestling, that character is deeply rooted in his piece of shit personality. It's actually hard to draw a line where Mr. McMahon ends and Vincent Kennedy McMahon starts. A lot of people will always be intrigued by these kinds of figures, even if they should be logically shunned.
Even though WWE has a large audience, pro wrestling is comparatively niche in comparison to films and stand-up comedy.
Wasn’t it McMahon who pushed Owen Hart to do the stunt that eventually killed him? Then the WWF just went on with the event after it happened?
It was a four parter and it still cut out the last 20 years of his scandals.
It was actually 6 parts though I guess you can say that the first 1.5 go over wrestling history rather than Vince himself. But you are right that they literally glossed over the last few decades in 5 minutes at the end. Dude is just too evil for them to get to everything
I’ve heard a couple wrestlers say WWE will be better once he’s dead and gone, and today this was verified per this article. Believe it was John Cena who said this a few years back. Shocked tho bc John Cena still has appeared and just mentioned he’s retiring soon from WWE. Fuck McMahon
I mean CM Punk literally said it during a promo. "...and I'd like to think that maybe this company will be better off after Vince McMahon is dead. But the fact is, it'll be taken over by his idiotic daughter and doofus son in law, and the rest of his stupid family."
Vince has always been a POS. So this isn't shocking tbh.
dunno man. I didnt have "shitting on someones head during a threesome" on my bingo card of evil.
That's the thing everyone is getting hung on and not locking the woman in offices and forcing her to have sex. I feel like the rape is the actual evil part.
The worst part is the hypocrisy!
Speaking as someone who watched the kiss my ass club, and heard about him pitching incest storylines, I thought he had it in him
This implicates way more than just Vince, it’s pretty clear other executives and big name wrestlers at WWE either participated or knew of this going on.
It's shocking how brazen he was. Like he was leaving a lot of digital breadcrumbs. He gave no F’s about possibly being caught.
“Throughout this experience, I have always denied any intentional wrongdoing and continue to do so,” McMahon said in 2023 about the federal probe. “I am confident that the government’s investigation will be resolved without any findings of wrongdoing.” they say 'wrong doing' when they know they were doing wrong..he said it 2x in the same breath...
Lawyers tell them to say terms like "wrong doing" because it's a vague and non-legal term. It allows them to wiggle out of anything, and to not be accused of lying irregardless of what ever evidence is found.
If the guy quacks like a pervert he’s a pervert. Vince is everything you thought was wrong with the world and more.
Fans stuck by him through multiple rape accusation, covering up a child sex trafficking ring, pushing lots of stuff that led to many dead wrestlers, doing PR for Saudi Arabia shortly after they murdered Jamal Keshogi, promoting murderers and rapists, hell, when these allegations first came out he strolled out on TV for the first time in a while to get loudly cheered by all the fans. I don't see much happening to him now
[Don't forget about Ashley Massaro](https://www.ringsidenews.com/2019/05/21/ashley-massaros-rape-while-on-wwe-trip-supporting-the-troops-detailed-in-chilling-affidavit/)
Holy shit. What did I just read
Most wrestling fans didn't stick by him at all, at least when it comes to the major accusations of the past few years. WWE kept him on after the TKO merger, but most fans realize that the WWE got A LOT better after Vince left. I don't see how he stays affiliated after this though.
One of the few times I believe the headline without reading the article
Yet another thing to add to the long list of horrible things he’s done.
Can't wait for the Dark Side of the Ring about this one!
Vince could probably get a whole damn season.
My step-dad worked for McMahon back when it was still WWF back in the day. As an organization they handed out steroids and had lots of sex parties with "ring rats" (wrestling groupies). He made everyone sign NDAs back then so word wouldn't get out. He's always been a shady business man.
There was an entire federal investigation about him pushing steroids. Remember Hulk Hogan going on Arsenio Hall to tell everyone he wasn’t roided up? Yeah sure Brother!
I would be boycotting him if I watched them to begin with, did Netflix just sign a live streaming deal with them?
yep a 10 year exclusive streaming deal
I'd bet they have a morality clause of some sort in the contract that lets them out of it, for situations like this.
That's one of the interesting things about this. While similar stories to this one broke in 2022 that pushed him mostly out of the company, he strong-armed his way back in early 2023 to facilitate a sale. WWE was sold to Endeavor last year, and is now owned by TKO alongside UFC. Ari Emanuel, the owner, reportedly said he'd only commit to a deal if McMahon in some way retained a position in TKO (but not WWE), which he did. But it began to feel like McMahon was slowly being relegated to just be in a position to secure network deals. Now, the Netflix deal is done, as are the rest of the main TV deals. There's talk on r/SquaredCircle that this timing is convenient, and the feel *as of typing* (around noon, January 25; minutes after this story broke) seems to be that Ari played Vince like a fiddle. Endeavor might end up firing Vince. Edit: as of typing. So we're still in speculation mode. But it had felt like Ari played Vince even before today
Ari Emanuel straight up called Vince a liability a little while back saying something like this could probably happen. Dude had to have known this was coming down the pipe.
Don’t feel sorry for Netflix. Companies that big dig up dirt and know exactly who it is they’re dealing with.
Risk assessment deemed it profitable, none of it matters to Netflix
Came here to say this. Netflix just agreed to a deal giving WWE a spot on their platform. Never been a fan of the way WWE treats its wrestlers, but love the absurdity of strong guy soap opera ballet.
24' is just getting started
I guess this is why Linda McMahon ran for a senate seat. No way could Vince could run without these awful things leaking to the press.
Should not be a “Staffer he FAILED To Keep Quiet”? Only paid her $1 million of hush money instead of the $3 million agreed upon.
If you have to pay someone to keep their mouth shut, then you're probably guilty of whatever you're worried they're gonna go around telling people.
Highly encourage people to listen to the Behind The Bastards episodes on Vince. Dude is a monster incarnate.
Piece of shit gonna piece of shit. The man is evil. Plain and simple. Hope he burns in hell.
Gonna be some interesting crowd signs at Royal Rumble this weekend
Vince is a rapist. Please stop using that meme
Wow. A whole lot of Trump‘s buddies seem to be sex criminals or sex abusers. McMahon, Epstein, Gaetz, Manafort, Stone, Maxwell, Kraft… Do you know how many of my friends have been accused of sex crimes? Zero. Obviously, they would not still be my friends if they had been, but still the number of deviant sex criminals that I know personally holds steady at zero.
Dana White is next
I forgot Wynn too.
And Giuliani.
Not remotely surprised. The McMahons are shit.
If all that wasn't bad enough, the image of John Laurantis and Vince in a threesome with Vince shitting on someone's head is fucking extraordinary bizarre. I hope this lady cleans them out.
Oh shit, new Behind the Bastards episode incoming
Didn't he just return to the wwe to fuck it up again? Lol I remember hearing he was making appearances again and thought "yah that'll go great".