{"id":349511,"date":"2026-06-12T04:55:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=349511"},"modified":"2026-06-12T04:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:25:33","slug":"janel-grant-responds-to-anonymous-emails-that-first-tipped-off-wwe-board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/janel-grant-responds-to-anonymous-emails-that-first-tipped-off-wwe-board-of-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Janel Grant Responds To Anonymous Emails That First Tipped Off WWE Board Of Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Janel Grant distanced herself from anonymous emails sent to WWE executives, exhibited within the shareholder lawsuit that was settled in principle last week.<\/p>\n

Grant’s own lawsuit, filed in January 2024 alleging sexual abuse and trafficking by the hands of Vince McMahon during her time working for the corporate, looks set to enter private arbitration following a joint motion filed on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Her allegations were central to the shareholder suit, given shareholders were suing over the WWE-UFC merger under Endeavor being predetermined, on the premise that McMahon could remain an executive despite the allegations of sexual misconduct and related NDA payments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As such, anonymous emails have been uncovered from someone purporting to be a friend of Grant, addressed to several executives describing similar allegations to Grant’s. The emails were sent on March 30, April 11, and April 14, 2022.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Grant disputes much of what is claimed within the emails; the primary one makes mention of the sender living on the road, addiction to Percocet, and later getting sober with Grant. In her Instagram post Grant said:<\/p>\n

“There isn’t a one who knew me in life pre-dating 2019 who could write this… A friend? I see a trick to steer public perception. Homeless? I shared my background at work. Rehab? I shared my experience with grief counselling at work. Addiction? I shared that quitting nicotine lozenges wasn’t easy at work. A threat to show info? It is a highly reactive environment with security vendors in place. The remaining of the e-mail? It repackages years of time and illogical events involving a number of individuals who have eyeballs right into a logic sounding storyline with only a number of people. This email doesn’t contain allegations. This email is a storyline.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Grant continued to handle the emails<\/h2>\n
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The primary email reads:\u00a0<\/p>\n

“My friend worked at WWE. She is [redacted] and we live [sic] homeless for some time on percs etc. etc. We went to get cleaned up together and she or he met chief chairman Vince McMahon not too long after that. Vince McMahon gave her a job and paid her 100 thousand dollars every years until he began f***ing her then he paid her 2 hundred thousand dollar a 12 months he’s 80 years old and took my friends soul simply because he could…<\/p>\n

“…Vince McMahon gave her like a toy his friend John who works at WWE too, John is 70 and her boss too. My friend was so scared she quit after Vince McMahon and lawyer Jerry paid her tens of millions of dollars to shut up I’m going to the media as well I don’t desire anything from from I just want the world to know the reality about this pervert.”<\/p>\n

All emails contained inaccuracies beyond grammar and spelling, the primary one providing the flawed ages for McMahon and Laurinaitis, which were 76 and 59 respectively on the time. Grant can also be described as 25 years old in later emails, when she was 41 on the time in query.<\/p>\n

It was suggested within the emails that McMahon had recorded and kept explicit content of alleged sexual assault by himself and Laurinaitis against Grant. Defunct media outlet Deadspin can also be named as one other party the sender was purportedly talking to on the identical topic. The outlet didn’t publish anything in regards to the matter at the moment.<\/p>\n

“I’m pretty sick over whether that is implying a revenge porn situation and whether it extends to Deadspin. A media company. I’m sick over whether that is implying I used to be being filmed and didn’t understand it. I’m sick over whatever it’s that I do not know,” Grant said of the emails in her post.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nick Khan addressed the emails in his shareholder suit deposition<\/h2>\n
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In a later post, Grant published transcripts of WWE President Nick Khan and former Chief Financial Officer Frank Riddick’s depositions, pertaining to the emails, from the shareholder suit.<\/p>\n

Khan said he had seen the emails and was aware that they described Grant \u2013 her name is redacted within the transcript. When asked what his initial response was, he said, “There’s a number of passionate wrestling fans on the market \u2013 and we get emails which might be, , kind of a little bit erratic on a regular basis, sometimes threatening to \u2013 , myself or colleagues.\u00a0Upon reading this primary email, it felt to me prefer it was more like that. I didn’t \u2013 it didn’t register to be real in my mind.”<\/p>\n

Khan confirmed he signed off on Grant’s promotion, though he wouldn’t confirm the figures; said to be between $100,000 dollars a 12 months to $200,000. He said he talked to McMahon in regards to the emails, though he said he didn’t provide a substantive response and said something to the effect of he would take a look at it.<\/p>\n

Khan said that he felt the second email felt more real, in that it listed Grant’s name and he knew who she was. He said that after the second email, he remembered it became a serious matter, and he asked Riddick to envision if any payments had been made by WWE to Grant aside from standard payroll.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Frank Riddick addressed the emails in his shareholder suit deposition<\/h2>\n
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In Riddick’s deposition, he confirmed that he was a recipient of the emails. He declined being aware of a romantic or sexual relationship between Grant and McMahon, knowing who sent the emails, or ever trying to search out out who sent the emails. He claimed he had no guess as to who sent them, and didn’t understand how the sender obtained the addresses of the recipients.<\/p>\n

Riddick did admit that he understood the WWE board to have investigated who sent the emails, though he didn’t know whether or not they succeeded. He continued to say that he thought the primary email was a “fishing expedition attempt to extort money from the corporate,” though the second email and its specificity led him to consider it was not a scam but real.<\/p>\n

He said that, after the primary email, he immediately contacted the overall counsel and acting head of human resources, sending them a replica of the e-mail and asking whether or not they were aware of any allegations that will fit the outline against Vince.<\/p>\n

Together with the depositions, Grant posted an article from announcing a change of counsel for WWE on April 7, 2022, between the primary and second emails. The article notes that Samira Shah exited the corporate under “murky circumstances” and was being replaced by Elisebeth Collins. Collins left the corporate that very same 12 months and now works as an executive for Walmart.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article><\/div>\n

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