WWE superstar Brock Lesnar has been named in the shocking sex trafficking lawsuit against Vince McMahon.
Former WWE employee Janel Grant amended the complaint in her ongoing lawsuit against McMahon, who she accuses of sex trafficking her.
The amended complaint includes new disturbing allegations against McMahon and other members of the wrestling company, naming Lesnar as the wrestler he had allegedly enticed into staying under contract by using her as a ‘sexual pawn.’
In 2021, McMahon was embroiled in continued discussions with Lesnar over a return to WWE when he offered her to the wrestler and told her to create personalized sexual content for a WWE superstar, the complaint alleges.
According to the suit, McMahon shared explicit photos with Lesnar and told Grant: ‘He likes what he sees’. Then, allegedly after Lesnar agreed his new WWE contract, McMahon is said to have sent Grant a message in August 2021, telling her ‘that part of the deal was f***ing U.’
The complaint had previously detailed the allegations but had not named Lesnar, instead citing an anonymous fighter. The Wall Street Journal had previously identified the wrestler in question as Lesnar.
Brock Lesnar as been named in the shocking sex trafficking lawsuit against Vince McMahon.
Former WWE CEO Vince McMahon has been accused of sex trafficking by a former employee
Janel Grant (pictured) is suing McMahon, the WWE and another company executive
Representatives for Lesnar were not immediately available for comment. DailyMail.com has also contacted WWE for comment.
An attorney for McMahon told DailyMail.com: ‘As expected, the proposed amended complaint is nothing more than the latest publicity stunt in an ongoing smear campaign. It is filled with desperate falsehoods from a team that continues to disregard the law and the truth.’
A few months later, McMahon is said to have given Grant’s cellphone number to the WWE star who asked her to send a video of herself urinating. The suit claims that after she did, he called her a ‘b****.’
McMahon is also said to have arranged a meeting between Grant and Lesnar, with a sexual encounter between the pair ultimately not taking place as the wrestler was escorted back to their plane intoxicated.
That same month, the wrestler is also alleged to have expressed his desire to ‘set a play date’ for a sexual encounter. Mahon and Lesnar then allegedly organized an encounter in conjunction with the wrestler’s appearance at a show in Connecticut, with Lesnar even sending Grant the address for the hotel where he would be staying.
However, a snowstorm changed Lesnar’s travel plans and Grant ultimately used the weather and Covid-19 as an excuse to back out.
Now 47, Lesnar is one of wrestling’s biggest names. He first joined the WWE (then WWF) in 2000, making his debut two years later. Between 2008 and 2016 – after briefly trying out for NFL side Minnesota Vikings – Lesnar competed in the UFC and won the heavyweight title in just his third fight. He returned to WWE in 2012 and his lucrative deal sees him appear only a handful of times a year.
Lesnar has been absent form WWE programming for more than 12 months, with a rumored return last reportedly scrapped after his name was linked to the ongoing legal case against McMahon.
Other new shocking allegations included McMahon allegedly sending a text message to Grant, where he fantasizes in graphic detail about watching as a group of men are ‘surrounding’ her and leaving her physically ‘wrecked,’ underscoring how he viewed her as a commodity to offer to others.
Lesnar is one of wrestling’s biggest names, first joining the company in 2000
Grant previously agreed to a $3million settlement in exchange for signing a nondisclosure agreement in 2022.
But last year she filed a new lawsuit against McMahon, the WWE and a former executive, claiming McMahon stopped making payments after the initial $1m installment, and she now seeks to void that agreement.
Her allegations include that McMahon and another WWE executive locked her in a room at the WWE’s Stamford, Connecticut headquarters in June of 2021 and took turns sexually assaulting during the work day.
The married McMahon is additionally accused of trafficking Grant to other men and sharing nude photographs of the plaintiff.
Grant is seeking unspecified damages. WWE executive and retired wrestler John Laurinaitis is also named as a defendant in the suit.
Neither McMahon’s lawyer nor WWE spokespeople responded to DailyMail.com’s request for comment on Thursday. The organization previously described McMahon’s sexual relationship with Grant as ‘consensual’ in a 2022 statement.
‘Ms. Grant’s amended complaint reveals new details that further demonstrate the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of Vince McMahon and John Laurinaitis and pulls back the curtain on the dangerous workplace culture McMahon created at WWE,’ said Ann Callis, attorney for Janel Grant. ‘Ms. Grant looks forward to holding her abusers accountable in a court of law.’
Laurinaitis was fired from the company in 2022.
McMahon’s co-defendant John Laurinaitis, who was fired from the company in 2022
PICTURED: The World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut
The WWE board learned of McMahon’s relationship with Grant from an anonymous tip in 2022 and launched an internal investigation, which subsequently uncovered $14.6 million in other alleged payments by the executive to various women.
Grant’s filing alleges that McMahon ensnared her in a sexual relationship by promising to help advance her career before ultimately exploiting her and trafficking her to other executives within the company.
In one alleged text message from 2020, McMahon is accused of sharing a photo of Grant with others and writing: ‘She may scream and try to say NO!!although it would B difficult to say anything with a c*** down her throat.’
Another message allegedly sent by McMahon to Grant a month earlier read: ‘I’m the only one who owns U and controls who I want to f*** U.’
