WWE’s Vince McMahon, wife accused of allowing ‘rampant sexual abuse’ of young boys

World Wrestling Entertainment laminitis Vince McMahon and his wife, Linda, are accused of knowingly allowing the grooming, exploitation and intersexual maltreatment of young boys passim the 1980s and ’90s, according to a caller suit filed connected behalf of 5 alleged victims.

According to the suit, the erstwhile CEO of WWE and his woman were alert that the organization’s salient ringside announcer, Mel Phillips, utilized his “highly disposable position” arsenic a ringing unit main to prosecute boys arsenic young arsenic 12 to assistance with errands successful mentation for WWE’s wrestling shows.

They besides knew that Phillips’ “real motivation” successful hiring the boys “was to sexually battle them,” the 82-page ailment alleges.

Those young assistants, who became known arsenic “ring boys,” were “groomed, exploited and sexually abused by Phillips, who targeted children from breached homes,” according to the instrumentality firms DiCello Levitt and Murphy, Falcon & Murphy, which are representing 5 men who claimed they were abused by Phillips.

“Thanks to the bravery of our clients, we yet person a accidental to clasp accountable those who allowed and enabled the open, rampant intersexual maltreatment of these young boys,” pb lawyer Greg Gutzler said successful a statement.  “That truthful galore were alert of the intersexual maltreatment of the Ring Boys and did thing to forestall oregon halt it is simply unconscionable.”

Phillips, who died successful 2012, is accused of sexually abusing the ringing boys successful wrestling venues, edifice rooms and different locations wherever the announcer would “shuttle the boys successful plain sight.”

“At immoderate venues, defendants adjacent provided Phillips with his ain backstage dressing country wherever helium would usage his ain costly video camera (extremely uncommon astatine that time) to movie his intersexual escapades with the children,” the suit alleges, besides naming WWE and its genitor institution TKO Holdings arsenic defendants.

The bombshell suit, filed successful Baltimore County connected Wednesday, is the latest scandal involving the sports amusement elephantine described arsenic “the most important man successful the past of World Wrestling Entertainment.”

In January, McMahon resigned from his roles astatine genitor institution TKO aft a erstwhile WWE worker accused him of intersexual misconduct.

Janel Grant, who served successful WWE’s ineligible and endowment departments, said she was required to support a intersexual narration with McMahon and taxable to his “sexual demands” — which allegedly progressive acts of “extreme cruelty and degradation” — successful instrumentality for employment.

McMahon has vehemently denied the “baseless accusations” alleged successful the complaint, calling them “obscene made-up instances that ne'er occurred.”

A six-part documentary bid astir WWE’s “record-breaking highs and crushing lows” nether McMahon’s enactment premiered connected Netflix past month.