[https://frontofficesports.com/wwe-nick-khan-brad-blum-vince-mcmahon-sex-trafficking-suit/](https://frontofficesports.com/wwe-nick-khan-brad-blum-vince-mcmahon-sex-trafficking-suit/)
* Neither Khan nor Blum is alleged to have participated in or known about abuse of any kind.
* Also central to the suit: former WWE exec Stephanie McMahon, who is described as knowing of other instances of her father engaging in ‘inappropriate sexual conduct.
Excerpts from the article:
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> The suit claims that Khan and Blum, whose names have not previously been reported, were instrumental to a scheme in which the plaintiff, a woman named Janel Grant, was employed “in a completely undefined role, except for the understanding that she remain a sexual slave to be used and trafficked by McMahon within the WWE.” Unlike McMahon and Laurinaitis, the two are not personally accused of sexual misconduct or violence; rather, the suit claims that they and others facilitated and covered up exploitation in ways that make WWE liable under [federal anti-trafficking law](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1591).
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> “WWE takes Ms. Grant’s allegations very seriously and has no tolerance for any physical abuse or unwanted physical contact,” a WWE spokesperson said in a statement. “Neither Nick Khan nor Brad Blum, prior to the lawsuit being filed on January 25, 2024, were aware of any allegation by Ms. Grant that she was the victim of abuse or unwanted physical contact; nor does the complaint allege that either had knowledge of such.”
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> The suit says that McMahon groomed Grant while she was grieving the death of her parents and had her hired into a fake job with the company’s legal department in May 2019. Subsequent to that, it says, she was subjected to “extreme cruelty and degradation,” including McMahon defecating on her during group sex, and he and Laurinaitis raping her in the WWE offices, with the abuse only ending in ’22. This left her, according to the suit, “crippled, both physically and mentally, including from debilitating symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal ideation.”
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>The next day, the suit says, Blum told her that she was being transferred to the talent relations department, where she would report to Laurinaitis, with whom McMahon had months before pressured her into group sex at McMahon’s condo. (She was, going forward, the suit says, expected to sexually service Laurinaitis at his hotel and in his office.) The suit alleges that her sexual exploitation continued for another year. It also says that during negotiations over the NDA, Grant included Khan and Blum in a list of people whose roles should be addressed in the agreement due to their “knowledge of the relationship,” though the suggestion was rejected.
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>The suit does not explicitly make any claims about whether Khan, Blum, or the other two corporate officers knew of any alleged acts of sexual violence or cruel and degrading treatment.
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>The person identified in the suit as Corporate Officer No. 3 is, according to *FOS* reporting that Grant’s lawyer confirmed, McMahon’s daughter, longtime WWE executive Stephanie McMahon. She is mentioned once, in an ambiguous context.
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>Grant, the suit says, attended meetings of WWE’s executive committee—something far above her pay grade, and the appropriateness of which she asked Khan and Blum about. At one of these meetings, the suit says, Stephanie McMahon—who is described as knowing “of other instances of [Vince] McMahon engaging in inappropriate sexual conduct”—motioned Grant to sit near her.
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> Three months after the NDA between McMahon and Grant was signed, in 2022, Stephanie McMahon, then WWE’s chief brand officer, announced she was taking a leave of absence from the company. A month later, [*The Wall Street Journal* reported](https://www.wsj.com/articles/wwe-board-probes-secret-3-million-hush-pact-by-ceo-vince-mcmahon-sources-say-11655322722) on a probe by the WWE board of directors into payments made by Vince McMahon involving NDAs with several former female employees and performers. After his subsequent resignation as CEO and chair of the board, she became interim CEO and chair. In early ’23, her father seized control of the board ahead of WWE’s eventual merger with the Ultimate Fighting Championship under the auspices of Ari Emanuel’s Endeavor. She resigned days later.
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> The person identified as Corporate Officer No. 4, according to *FOS* reporting which Grant’s lawyer confirmed, is Brian Nurse, formerly general counsel and head of WWE’s legal department. According to the suit, on May 9, 2019—eight months after he’d been hired—he offered Grant a job three hours after having called her to “discuss a legal role.” The next day, the suit says, Vince McMahon told her that he had ordered Nurse to offer Grant the job, and then McMahon sexually assaulted her for the first time, putting his hand down her pants without consent.
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> The suit describes the work environment in the legal department as distressing to the point that Grant was openly experiencing panic attacks in the office. She was never onboarded, it says, or given any clear responsibilities, and Nurse was “warm with other colleagues but cold with her” before becoming openly hostile—behavior his staff noticed, discussed with Grant, and in some cases emulated. Nurse, the suit says, would even stop and change directions if he saw her in a hallway, and he told at least one other executive that he knew or suspected the relationship between Grant and McMahon was sexual.
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Source: self.Fauxmoi
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1bdcq4n/wwe_president_nick_khan_coo_brad_blum_revealed_as/
