There has been a new update in Janel Grant’s lawsuit against Vince McMahon and WWE.
In January, Janel Grant filed a lawsuit in which she alleged that Vince McMahon and John Laurinaitis engaged in sexual assault and sexual trafficking of her. McMahon denied the allegations, but he resigned from WWE and TKO. He is under federal investigation regarding the allegations.
In April, Grant filed a motion to strike Vince McMahon’s preliminary statements. Now, McMahon’s attorneys have filed a memorandum that opposes Grants’ previous motion. As noted by Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics, McMahon’s side claims that the aforementioned statements give “relevant content to the Motion to Compel Arbitration.” They argue that Grant’s motion to strike is “meritless and the height of hypocrisy.”
Furthermore, McMahon’s side states that Grant’s initial complaint included “private sexual text messages from Defendant [McMahon] without including any of Plaintiff’s [Grant’s] responses to those texts—responses which are equally and often more aggressive and provocative than Defendant’s communications and show not only that the relationship was consensual, but also that in many instances the Plaintiff was the initiator.”
Additionally, McMahon claims that he no longer has the texts because he deleted them, but he asserts that discovery will reveal that Grant sent him messages and images with sexually explicit content. The motion also states that Grant presumably still has these text messages but claims that they were not included in her complaint because she wanted to to craft a “distorted, false picture.”
Additionally, the filing cites a lawsuit that the widow of Owen Hart, Martha Hart, filed against WWE in 2010, as case law regarding a motion to strike.
WrestleZone will provide more information as it becomes available.
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