“Vince McMahon has tendered his resignation from his positions as TKO Government Chairman and on the TKO Board of Administrators. He’ll not have a job with TKO Group Holdings or WWE,” stated Nick Khan, president of the WWE.
The announcement got here within the wake of allegations made public Thursday, of sexual assault and intercourse trafficking, towards McMahon.
McMahon has denied the allegations. However he stated in an announcement late Friday that, “out of respect for the WWE Universe, the extraordinary TKO enterprise and its board members and shareholders, companions and constituents, and all the workers and Superstars who helped make WWE into the worldwide chief it’s immediately, I’ve determined to resign from my government chairmanship and the TKO board of administrators, efficient instantly.”
The most recent allegations towards McMahon had been in a lawsuit filed by Janel Grant — who alleges McMahon directed her to have intercourse with a WWE “famous person” and different males. Grant’s go well with seeks to void a nondisclosure settlement Grant stated she reached with McMahon in early 2022.
Grant’s go well with in U.S. District Courtroom in Connecticut says the billionaire McMahon agreed to pay her $3 million as a part of that deal, however ended up solely paying her $1 million in trade for her silence about his conduct.
Along with McMahon, 78, the criticism names as defendants WWE and John Laurinaitis, the corporate’s former head of expertise relations and normal supervisor.
The criticism comes six months after federal regulation enforcement brokers executed a search warrant on McMahon and served him with a grand jury subpoena as a part of an investigation into McMahon’s cost of tens of millions of {dollars} to a number of girls, amongst them Grant, after allegations of sexual misconduct.
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