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WWE chairman and CEO Vince McMahon speaks to an audience during a WWE fan appreciation event, Oct. 30, 2010, in Hartford, Conn. A former WWE employee filed a federal lawsuit Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, accusing McMahon and another former executive of serious sexual misconduct.Photo by Jessica Hill /THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Janel Grant, the woman suing Vince McMahon for sex trafficking and abuse, allegedly sent the ex-WWE owner lurid text messages saying she “wanted rough sex” and “fantasized about being held down” by him, according to a court filing.
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In court documents filed by McMahon’s lawyers, Grant is also alleged to have texted McMahon that she “enjoyed being in pain” and she wanted him to “watch her have sex with other people and know about her sex with others.”
Grant, a former WWE employee, has accused McMahon of forcing her to have sex with him and other company executives in threesomes — during which he once allegedly defecated on her head.
She also is alleged in the court filings of having asked the former pro wrestling mogul for thousands of dollars worth of clothing and money for plastic surgery.
Former WWE employee Janel Grant.Twitter
However, McMahon’s lawyers did not provide screenshots of the text messages or transcripts as, according to the filing, McMahon deleted the text messages when “he broke off the relationship” with Grant.
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According to the New York Post, a spokesperson for Grant declined to comment.
Grant filed her suit earlier this year, in which she alleged that she was assaulted and trafficked by McMahon and another WWE executive, John Laurinaitis.
Grant filed the suit after McMahon allegedly failed to pay out the $3 million that he had arranged with her as part of a “hush money” agreement. McMahon stepped down from his role at WWE and parent company TKO Group Holdings earlier this year after Grant’s lawsuit and allegations went public.
McMahon has denied all allegations, claiming that the relationship with Grant was consensual.
WWE has stated that none of its executives were aware of Grant’s allegations before she filed her lawsuit in January.
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This week’s claims are the latest in a series of back-and-forth reveals by both sides involved in the lawsuit.
Last month, McMahon alleged that Grant cheated on her fiance with him while they lived several floors apart in the Park Tower Stamford, a luxury 36-storey condo building in Stamford, Conn.
He claimed Grant would visit him “at all hours, including at 2:30 a.m., to pursue their affair and then return back to her condominium” which she shared with her fiance, attorney Brian Goncalves, the New York Post reported.
However, Grant’s lawyer, Callis, responded to McMahon’s court filing, saying the couple had called off their engagement and Goncalves “allowed her to stay in the appartment as she rebuilt her life.”
“Vince McMahon has never known a storyline that he doesn’t twist to fit his own shameful narrative,” Callis said.
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