Former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) CEO and Chairman Vince McMahon is reportedly under federal criminal investigation over numerous sexual misconduct allegations that have been made against him.
The Wall Street Journal reported that prosecutors in New York have been in contact with multiple women who have allegedly received payouts from McMahon after accusing him of sexual misconduct.
The news comes just days after former WWE employee Janel Grant filed an explosive lawsuit in federal court accusing McMahon of sexual abuse and sex trafficking. McMahon subsequently resigned from his positions at the parent company of the WWE and UFC, TKO Group Holdings, late last month.
The Journal said that the federal probe began in 2022 and that last summer, federal agents executed a search warrant for McMahon’s phone and “delivered a subpoena to him for documents related to any allegation…
