Former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar has been recognized by identify in a federal lawsuit filed by a former WWE worker towards the corporate and ex-CEO Vince McMahon.
An modification to the blockbuster lawsuit first filed in 2024 was added in January with further particulars from Janel Grant, who claimed she was sexually abused, sexually assaulted and trafficked by McMahon and John Lauranaitis, who’s the previous head of expertise relations for WWE.
Whereas Lesnar isn’t listed as a defendant within the ongoing lawsuit, Grant’s modification to the unique lawsuit lastly identifies him by identify after he was beforehand known as a WWE famous person.
Grant claims beginning in March 2020, McMahon allegedly started sharing sexually specific pictures and movies of her with males each inside and out of doors of WWE. The lawsuit claims that Lesnar was the WWE famous person who McMahon shared pictures and movies with whereas the corporate was trying to re-sign him to a brand new contract.
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She additionally claims that McMahon tried to recruit Lesnar for a sexual encounter along with her whereas she was nonetheless a coordinator with the WWE’s authorized division. Within the lawsuit, Grant claims by July 2021, McMahon allegedly knowledgeable her that Lesnar could be their subsequent “playmate.”
Grant claims that McMahon allegedly described specific sexual fantasies the place Lesnar would “rip” her open.
Grant additionally claims in July 2021 that McMahon flew Lesnar on a jet to a neighborhood airport in Connecticut for what he allegedly described to her as a “enterprise dinner” in addition to a sexual encounter with the previous UFC champion at his condominium. The dinner was allegedly set as much as focus on Lesnar’s continued employment with WWE and Grant claims he made a short go to to her constructing however in the end didn’t return for the sexual encounter as a result of he was allegedly “too intoxicated and brought again to the aircraft.”
Grant then claims that McMahon allegedly tried to “salvage the night time” with a task taking part in sexual encounter the place he pretended he was Lesnar. Grant claims McMahon was so bodily tough along with her throughout this alleged encounter that she begged him to cease whereas crying “assist” and “I’m scared.”
She claims that McMahon bodily abused her throughout the encounter with slaps and shoves earlier than allegedly telling her “I’m actually f*cking up with you proper and left tonight, huh?”
It was round that very same time that Grant claims McMahon directed her to create “personalised sexual content material” for Lesnar and allegedly later advised her “he likes what he sees.” McMahon allegedly gave Grant’s private cellphone quantity to Lesnar and promised “she’ll do something” requested of her.
Grant says within the days that adopted her reference to Lesnar that he allegedly revealed a fetish to her and “examined McMahon’s promise that Ms. Grant would ‘do something’ with a request that she ship a video of herself urinating.”
She claims that Lesnar expressed his need to “set a play date” for a sexual encounter, which was coordinated with an look he had scheduled on the Mohegan Solar in Uncasville, Conn. and he allegedly despatched her the tackle the place he could be staying.
Grant claims she averted the encounter after a snowstorm allegedly modified Lesnar’s journey plans, and he or she used the climate and COVID-19 as an excuse to again out.
Only a day after the preliminary lawsuit was filed in January 2024, McMahon resigned from his place as govt chairman of TKO Group Holdings — the corporate that now controls WWE and UFC — and he not maintains any affiliation with the corporate. Since that point, McMahon has bought off enormous parts of the inventory he owned in TKO as the corporate additional distanced itself from the disgraced mogul.
McMahon has repeatedly denied the allegations towards him. Lesnar has not publicly commented on the lawsuit, and he hasn’t appeared on WWE programming since 2023.
Grant is looking for unspecified financial damages from the lawsuit.
