As noted before, former WWE employee Janel Grant filed a lawsuit in January of 2024 against former WWE/TKO Executive Chairman Vince McMahon accusing McMahon of committing sex trafficking and sexual abuse towards her during her time in the company. Grant filed a new amended lawsuit this past February detailing new evidence and claims against McMahon, WWE, and others. Grant had also a filed petition against a WWE Wellness doctor named Carlon Colker and his clinic in July of 2024 for medical records related to her lawsuit, which was court ordered to be released this past August. Grant had filed a memorandum this past April containing additional details in her allegations against McMahon, WWE President Nick Khan, former WWE Head of Talent Relations John Laurinaitis, Brock Lesnar, and WWE itself.
Grant issued a statement earlier today on Instagram denying having any involvement in the anonymous emails that were sent to WWE in 2022 that triggered WWE’s Board of Directors investigation into McMahon’s misconduct allegations and NDAs with several female employees.
The first email sent on March 30, 2022 stated:
“To Whom it May Concern,
My friend worked at WWE. She is [REDACTED] and we live homeless for a while on percs etc. Etc. We went to get cleaned up together and she met chief chairman Vince McMahon not too long after that. Vince McMahon gave her a job and paid her one hundred thousand dollars every year until he started fucking her then he paid her two hundred thousand dollar a year he is 80 years old and took my friends soul just because he could. Vince McMahon gave her like a toy his friend John who works at WWE to John is 70 and her boss to. My friend was so scared so she quit after Vince McMahon and lawyer Jerry paid her millions of dollars to shut up I am going to the media as well I don’t want anything from from I just want the world to know the truth about this pervert.”
In response to the first email, Grant stated:
“What never happened: No living on the street. No addictions to ‘percs.’ No rehab.
The spin: A friend? I see a trick to steer public perception. Homeless? I shared my background at work. Rehab? I shared my experience with grief counseling at work. Addiction? I shared that quitting nicotine lozenges wasn’t fun at work. A threat to expose info? It’s a highly reactive environment with security vendors in place. The rest of the email? It repackages years of time and illogical events involving a lot of people who have eyeballs into a logic sounding storyline with only a few people.
This email doesn’t contain allegations. This email is a storyline.
The second email sent on April 11, 2022 stated:
“The board of directors for major company like wwe does not care that the old founder and his old sidekick johnny Laronitis took advantage of a [REDACTED] who only worked hard? She would be angry that I wrote this but I want no money. I am sending this out to your stock holders tomorrow and to all lawyers my friend worked with. The lawyers knows of the settlements investigate and you will see WWE paid for her silence. [REDCATED] is her name. Very good lady. Treated like an animal by Vince Mcmahon and Johnny Loronitis.”
The third email sent on April 14, 2022 stated:
“Deadspin is surprised that board of directors has not checked vince mcmahon s phone which will show all of his hurtful pictures back and forth to [REDACTED] these include pictures of his privates to a 25 year old employee and them in sex together and with Johnny in sex acts with her. Gross old men abusing a 25 year old.”
In response to the other two emails, Grant stated:
“I’m pretty sick over whether this is implying a revenge porn situation and whether it extends to Deadspin. I’m sick over whether this is implying I was being filmed and didn’t know it. I’m sick over whatever it is that I don’t know.”
In a follow-up post, Grant shared excerpts of transcripts of depositions with WWE President Nick Khan and former WWE executive Frank Riddick that they had provided for testimony as part of the merger lawsuit case.
Grant also included a press release from WWE announcing Elisabeth Collins had been named as the new general counsel, replacing Samira Shah. Grant also included an article from Law.com that alluded to Shah’s exit from WWE under “murky circumstances.”
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