Disgraced WWE mogul Vince McMahon hit back at a former employee who accused him of sex trafficking and sexual harassment by sneaking into his penthouse apartment and getting into his bed, then later returning to the same building, according to a court. He claimed he was sneaking back to his fiancée’s study. filing.
McMahon responded to a federal lawsuit filed in Connecticut alleging that 43-year-old Janelle Grant had a willing sexual relationship with the wrestling mogul over a three-year period and defecated on her head. He denied all charges including explosives. in court Tuesday.
The filing includes a series of lies that Grant allegedly told McMahon in a lawsuit filed last January after Grant failed to pay him more than $3 million in hush money to keep his relationship a secret. enumerated.
The main point of McMahon’s allegation is that Grant “frequently visited his Stamford apartment at all hours of the day, including 2:30 a.m., to pursue an extramarital affair,” and then later met with his fiancé, attorney Brian. He had returned to the apartment where he lived. Gonsalves, according to the filing.
McMahon and Gonsalves, who stepped down as executive chairman of WWE’s parent company TKO Group Holdings in the wake of Grant’s lawsuit, are planning to build Park Tower, a 36-story luxury condo complex formerly known as Trump Park Stamford. -They lived four floors apart in Stamford.
Grant’s lawyer said that he and Gonsalves have broken off their engagement and “allowed her to stay in their apartment while she rebuilds her life.”
“Vince McMahon has never known a storyline that didn’t twist to fit his shameful narrative,” Ann Callis told the Post.
The newspaper has contacted Gonsalves for comment.
In her lawsuit, Grant claims that when she met McMahon in March 2019, she was “stricken with grief.”
McMahon’s filing said Grant had spent years providing 24-hour care for his late parents and that he had lied, saying he was “struggling financially” when they met. It is alleged that he fabricated parts of her life history.
Until his death, Grant’s father was living in a nursing home in Stamford and was not caring for his daughter, the application alleges.
Her mother died in 2017, two years before Mr Grant met Mr McMahon, the documents allege.
Charis said Grant’s father was in a home hospice until his final days, “where Janelle provided 24-hour care.”
“Before he died, she was caring for her mother, who was blind and in a wheelchair. Exploiting the grief of someone who has lost a parent is a whole new level of disgust,” Charis said. Told.
The motion asked the court to halt Grant’s lawsuit so the parties could resolve the dispute in binding arbitration.
Grant was employed by McMahon at WWE headquarters in Stamford from June 2019 to March 2022.
She filed a lawsuit seeking to invalidate the non-disclosure agreement she signed when she made the bombshell statement.
Ms. Grant had received $1 million of her $3 million payment, but after Ms. McMahon filed her lawsuit, she withheld her next payment, which was due in early February.
The lawsuit accuses McMahon of defecating on her head during a threesome and using a sex toy he named after the wrestler on her. McMahon calls it “sneaky,” “false” and “pure fiction.”
She also said McMahon directed her to have sex with other executives and unnamed wrestling stars, and shared nude photos and explicit videos of her with other WWE employees without her consent, according to the complaint. insisted.
John Laurinaitis, WWE’s former head of talent relations and general manager, was also the subject of the lawsuit.
The newspaper has contacted Laurinaitis for comment.
Laurinaitis’ attorney, Edward Brennan, said the 61-year-old former professional wrestler, known in the ring as Johnny Ace, “denies all of the allegations made against him in the complaint and that he is the victim in this case.” He claims that.” The main character is not important. ”
In a strange early development in the case, McMahon’s lawyer submitted a gushing love letter purportedly written in a Dec. 24, 2021 email from Grant to McMahon (obtained by The Post). But Charis maintains his client was coerced. To write a letter.
The email was sent to Grant’s laptop by a law firm hired by the WWE Board of Directors to investigate allegations against McMahon, who is the subject of a federal investigation on charges of sexual assault and human trafficking against other women. It was obtained from a computer.
Mr. McMahon denies the charges.
In an obtained Christmas Eve letter to McMahon, Grant said: “We’ve been together for almost three years and unless you’re there and in it and I’m sharing everything with you… , I feel like even my life isn’t real to me.” By Post.
Mr. Callis told the Post that Mr. McMahon instructed him to write a letter to Mr. Grant.
“Frankly, it was Vince himself who forced her to write because she was several weeks late trying to defend his horrible actions (acts that to this day he claims never happened).” “I’m pretty disgusted that they tried to introduce the letter,” Caris said.
“His mental torture of women continues. This is typical of abusive predators who intensify their threats when women speak out. Janelle is not new to his intimidation tactics, but… This is an all-time low for him.”
Mr. McMahon’s lawyer, Jessica Taub Rosenberg, denied that her client forced Mr. Grant to write the letter, calling the claim “historical revisionism.”
“She wrote it of her own volition,” Rosenberg, an attorney with Kasowitz Benson Torres, told the Post. She said: “The fact that the letter indicates it was the 24th draft speaks volumes.”
A spokesperson for Mr. Grant told the Post that Mr. McMahon frequently requested that he write love letters similar to those exchanged by celebrities and those published in magazines.
Additional reporting by Shannon Saylor
