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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Vince McMahon has agreed to pay more than $12 Million in Hush Money to Four Women to keep secret allegations of sexual misconduct and infidelity over the last 16 years.
The report states that one of the women was a former wrestler. The WSJ article states:
The previously unreported settlements include a $7.5 million pact with a former wrestler who alleged that Mr. McMahon coerced her into giving him oral sex and then demoted her and, ultimately, declined to renew her contract in 2005 after she resisted further sexual encounters, according to people familiar with the matter. The wrestler and her attorney approached Mr. McMahon in 2018 and negotiated the payment in return for her silence, the people said.
They also reported:
In another previously unreported deal, a WWE contractor presented the company with unsolicited nude photos of Mr. McMahon she reported receiving from him and alleged that he had sexually harassed her on the job, according to people familiar with the woman’s 2008 nondisclosure agreement. Mr. McMahon agreed to pay her roughly $1 million, these people said.
They added that another NDA/payment occurred in 2006 when they assert a manager who worked for McMahon for 10 years was paid $1M about McMahon initiating a sexual relationship with her.
These new reports come after a recent report that McMahon paid $3M to a former paralegal, which led to the WWE Board investigating him after they received emails from a "friend" of the paralegal.
McMahon did not respond to The Journal's request for a comment.
To me, the most damning thing reported here is the alleged relationship with a wrestler. Given the nature of the job, it's not like there were many job opportunities for female wrestlers in 2005. One could argue that isn't the case for a paralegal but in the case of a wrestler, when the head of creative, the person who determines your push, wants to have an affair with you, it's a really bad situation for Vince McMahon. It seems similar to what happened with Roger Ailes at Fox News. Given FOX is a partner of WWE, it will be interesting to see how they react to this story.
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