CNN reports:
A lawsuit alleges Linda McMahon, who President-elect Donald Trump tapped to lead the Department of Education, knowingly enabled the sexual exploitation of children by a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) employee as early as the 1980s — allegations she denies. The suit alleges McMahon, her husband, the WWE and TKO Group Holdings, the league’s parent company, knowingly allowed employee Melvin Phillips Jr. to use his position as ringside announcer to sexually exploit children.
The filing alleges Phillips would recruit children to work as “Ring Boys,” helping him set up and take down wrestling rings at WWE events. However, the job was a guise for sexually exploiting the children, which Phillips would do even in front of wrestlers and executives in the locker area, the lawsuit alleges. He also would often film his sexual abuse, according to the filing. The suit was filed in October in Baltimore County, Maryland, on behalf of five John Does.
The Washington Post reports:
Vince McMahon also has been sued by a former WWE employee, Janel Grant, who is accusing him of sexual assault and of trafficking her to other men.
The McMahons are currently separated, according to Linda’s attorney, Laura Brevetti, who called the ring boys lawsuit “baseless.” Vince McMahon resigned from WWE one day after Grant’s lawsuit was filed in January, and he has described the complaint as “salacious, false and defamatory” in court documents.
The newly aired allegations against the WWE founders, combined with the ongoing legal jeopardy facing Vince McMahon, are shadowing Linda McMahon’s rise into the president-elect’s inner circle.
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