WWE inventor Vince McMahon accused of sex trafficking
Janel Grant says she was also sexually assaulted at WWE, in a case filed at a Connecticut district court on Thursday.
Mr McMahon's spokesperson said the case was "replete with lies" and his client would "vigorously defend himself".
In 2022, he stepped back as WWE's chair and CEO amid sexual misconduct claims.
He was reinstated as chair of WWE a year later, after the company had concluded an investigation into the allegations.
WWE is the world's largest and best-known wrestling company - last week it signed a deal with Netflix to allow pro-wrestling's most popular weekly show, WWE Raw, to be exclusively streamed from January 2025. The programme has been shown on broadcast TV around the world for 31 years.
In the new legal case, Mr McMahon is named as a defendant alongside the WWE's former head of talent, John Laurinaitis.
Former WWE employee Janel Grant accuses them both of trafficking her to other men "as a sexual pawn to entice world-famous wrestling talent".
She says she was pressured into a physical relationship with the WWE chief executive in exchange for promises of employment, alleging she felt trapped "in an impossible situation... submitting to Mr McMahon's sexual demands or facing ruin".
She says she was unemployed at the time and dealing with her deceased parent's bankruptcy.
According to the legal case, Ms Grant went on to work at WWE's headquarters in Connecticut between 2019 and 2022.
She accuses Mr McMahon of recruiting individuals, including John Laurinaitis, to have sexual relations with her during that time. He "expected and directed Ms Grant to engage in sexual activity at the WWE headquarters, even during working hours", the case document reads.
She also accuses both defendants of sexually assaulting her at WWE headquarters in June 2021.
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