Ms Grant alleges Mr McMahon pressured her into resigning from WWE and signing a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for a lump sum of $3m (£2.5m) after his wife found out about their relationship in 2022.
NDAs, also known as “gagging orders” or “hush agreements”, are contracts between employees and companies preventing staff from making information public.
Ms Grant is asking the court to invalidate the NDA under federal law, claiming the defendants had violated the Trafficking Victims Prevention Act. She is also seeking unspecified monetary damages.
So basically she thinks she can get more than $3M by going public. This sounds a lot like blackmail to me, and McMahon didn’t meet her wanted price.
I’m not defending McMahon here at all, there’s a good chance he did shady stuff. I’m just saying there’s a good chance Ms. Grant is not as clearly the victim here as she makes herself out to be. I could absolutely be wrong, and hopefully the court proceedings will clarify things, things just seem a little fishy to me.
I don’t think an NDA is valid if it was obtained for illegal acts. She may have just found out that fact.
Perhaps, but we don’t necessarily know those acts were illegal. It’s totally legal for an employee to have sex with another employee, even during work hours, provided it’s consensual (and not against company policy). That might even be allowed as part of a contract (porn companies exist), I’m not sure, it probably varies by jurisdiction.
That said, there’s a good chance that something illegal was going on. Hopefully the court case will bear that out. But given the industry and the context, I can also see this as being totally consensual, but not written down, and Ms. Grant decided she wants more from McMahon because she’s mad at him dismissing her. The main thing that makes me doubt Ms. Grant’s story is that she’s only bringing this up after her dismissal, which was after McMahon’s wife found out. So I think there’s a strong case that she’s doing this to get back at McMahon, not because she actually felt coerced. Then again, it’s possible she only realized it after consulting an attorney after her dismissal (not sure why she wouldn’t consult an attorney before signing though).
That said, I have as many details as anyone else, I just think it’s not as clear-cut as Ms. Grant claims.
Why is that all you rape apologists always sound alike?
She explicitly stated the sex acts were not consensual, as she was coerced into doing them. She further states that she was sexually trafficked, i.e “sold” to other men because of that coercion. Shes far from the only women to talk about the toxic and vile environment that is the WWE, and we even have clear evidence that she was paid millions of dollars in an attempt to hide what happened to her.
What in the living possible fuck about the above could possiblity be okay?