Vince McMahon Accused of Sex Trafficking by Ex-WWE Employee (1)

A former World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. employee accused the company’s executive chairman Vince McMahon of sex trafficking and said she was paid “hush money” to stay silent.

Janel Grant said in a lawsuit that she was sexually exploited and degraded by McMahon during his time as chief executive officer. She said she was forced to perform sexual acts in exchange for employment and that she was trafficked to other men at the company by McMahon.

“Unsurprisingly, others at WWE knew what was going on,” Grant’s lawyers said in the lawsuit filed in federal court in Connecticut. “But instead of intervening ...