Allegation against Vince McMahon resurfaces with another coming to the light.
Over the summer, Ted Mann and Joe Palazzolo of the Wall Street Journal broke the news of the hush-money allegations centered around Vince McMahon. Those claims among others led to McMahon resigning from his role as Chairman and CEO of WWE.
The Wall Street Journal released a new report about McMahon and he is facing legal demands from two women who allege that he sexually assaulted them, per internal documents and people familiar with the legal negotiations. On 11/3, the lawyer of Rita Chatterton, former WWF referee who accused McMahon of rape, sent a demand letter to McMahon’s attorney Jerry McDevitt.
She is asking for $11.75 million in damages. The letter was reviewed by the Wall Street Journal. McMahon has denied Chatterton’s allegation.
In a separate email sent to McDevitt, the lawyer of a former spa manager is claiming that McMahon assaulted his client in 2011 at a California resort. Per the Journal, those familiar with McMahon’s reaction have shared that he refuses to pay settlements to Chatterton and the spa manager.
In addition to those notes, it is noted in the piece that McMahon has told people he intends to make a comeback to WWE. He feels he received bad advice from those close to him to step down and he believes the allegations and investigations would have blown over if he stayed in his position. McMahon remains the largest shareholder of WWE.
Rita Chatterton’s lawyer wrote in the legal demand that damages from her alleged assault were “hard to overstate. She has suffered years of ongoing depression, substance abuse, disordered eating, lost income and a decreased quality of life.” Chatterton’s lawyer added that she passed a polygraph and multiple sources corroborated her account.
Jonathan Wisniski, who wrestled as ‘Greg Valentine’, told the Journal that Rita informed him of the allegation while they were in Albany, New York in the 1980s. He said he did not believe her then and does not believe her now, adding that she was not ‘attractive enough’ for McMahon.
The spa manager reported the assault to the resort at the time. She told her husband and he drove to a WWE event with a baseball bat to confront McMahon but was turned away. Her lawyer has been in touch with McMahon’s attorney since July.
