Brock Lesnar Named in Updated Vince McMahon Sexual Abuse Complaint Filed by Former WWE Employee

In a statement to PEOPLE, McMahon's attorney said the amended version of the complaint — originally filed in 2024 — is “filled with desperate falsehoods”

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Vince McMahon; Brock Lesnar

New evidence in the ongoing case against Vince McMahon and others at World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is shedding light on the alleged abuse a former employee suffered. It also now names Brock Lesnar as the WWE star that McMahon allegedly attempted to “traffic” her to.

The evidence was added to an amended version of the original complaint, which claims that the former employee — who goes by the name of Janel Grant — experienced “physical and emotional abuse, sexual assault and trafficking” while working at the company.

On Friday, Jan. 31, attorneys for Grant filed the amended complaint, which was first filed in January 2024, they confirmed in a statement obtained by PEOPLE. The amended version, which includes previously unseen texts and voice messages, provides “new evidence that McMahon treated Ms. Grant as a commodity to sexually abuse and offer to other men.”

With the new allegations, the complaint — which was submitted to the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut against McMahon, WWE executive John Laurinaitis and the company — is now 101 pages long, up from 67 in Grant’s initial filing last year.

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The amended version alleges that Lesnar, 47, is the employee of the company who was previously referred to anonymously as “WWE Superstar,” and it also alleges that McMahon, 79, offered Grant to Lesnar for a sexual encounter during contract negotiations. It also claims that McMahon instructed her to send sexually explicit content to the wrestling pro.

In response to the Jan. 31 filing, a representative for McMahon’s attorney, Jessica T. Rosenberg, provided a statement to PEOPLE on her behalf: “As expected, the proposed amended complaint is nothing more than the latest publicity stunt in an ongoing smear campaign,” Rosenberg said the amended complaint is "filled with desperate falsehoods from a team that continues to disregard the law and the truth.”

A representative for Lesnar did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on Saturday, Feb. 1, nor did representatives for WWE.

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Jesse Grant/WireImage Vince McMahon in 2008

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Vince McMahon in 2008

According to the updated complaint, McMahon allegedly informed Grant that Lesnar would be their next “playmate” and directed her to “create personalized sexual content” for the wrestler.

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In another alleged instance, on July 21, 2021, "McMahon flew and/or caused Lesnar to fly on a jet into a local airport and travel into Connecticut (across state lines) for what McMahon described to Ms. Grant as a ‘business dinner,’ as well as a sexual encounter with Ms. Grant in McMahon’s condo,” per the amended complaint. Lesnar and Grant did not have a “sexual encounter” that day, however, “because he was too intoxicated and taken back to the plane,” the complaint claims.

The complaint alleges that, later that year, McMahon gave Grant’s personal phone number to Lesnar and “promised ‘she’ll do anything’ requested of her.” In the days that followed, Lesnar allegedly "tested" this promise by revealing a fetish to Grant and requesting "that she send a video of herself urinating."

McMahon also “actively attempted to organize a sexual encounter” between Grant and Lesnar, the complaint alleges. Newly included text messages appears to corroborate this, with McMahon allegedly texting things like, “U have to take a flight to Greenville South Carolina this Monday. Even if it’s just to C Brock.”

An amendment to the original complaint also alleges that in January 2022 McMahon finalized a booking for Lesnar, during which “it was expected that” he and Grant “would engage in a sexual encounter.”

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The new filing also included texts relating to a November 2020 sexual encounter Grant allegedly had with McMahon at WWE Headquarters after she pled with the then-CEO to “change his mind.”

The complaint states that after the encounter, which McMahon allegedly said would “fulfill his fantasy of having a sexual encounter with her in his office,” the WWE co-founder sent Grant photos of different areas of the room, writing things like “Does this look familiar little Tigress??” He also allegedly left her a voicemail to tell her that the encounter was “the greatest thing that probably ever happened in this building.”

The amended complaint also included more graphic and sexually explicit messages that McMahon allegedly sent to Grant, including a text in which he calls her a “little whoring b----,” one in which he describes a fantasy of men leaving her “physically wrecked” and one that states, “I'm the only one who owns U and controls who I want to f--- U."

Ethan Miller/Getty WWE Wrestler Brock Lesnar in 2019

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WWE Wrestler Brock Lesnar in 2019

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Also among the new claims is an instance in which McMahon allegedly recorded Grant while she was nude without her knowledge as well as new details about the NDA Grant signed after she left WWE after McMahon’s wife learned of their “relationship.” In a voice message, McMahon allegedly pressured Grant to sign an NDA "really f------ fast.”

Addressing the amended complaint and the new evidence it presents, Ann Callis, an attorney for Grant, said in a statement, “Ms. Grant’s amended complaint reveals new details that further demonstrate the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of Vince McMahon and [WWE executive] John Laurinaitis and pulls back the curtain on the dangerous workplace culture McMahon created at WWE.”

Callis also stated that “Grant looks forward to holding her abusers accountable in a court of law.”

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In the original complaint, Grant accused McMahon of soliciting sex in exchange for giving her a job at the company and of abusing her during their physical relationship while she was employed by WWE.

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Grant also detailed some of the physical encounters she claims she experienced, which she described as “acts of extreme cruelty and degradation” including a threesome in which McMahon defecated on her. She also claimed that McMahon and Laurinaitis “sexually assaulted” her when they “cornered” her behind a locked door and “forcibly touched her.”

At the time, a spokesperson for McMahon told NBC News that the lawsuit was “replete with lies, obscene made-up instances that never occurred and a vindictive distortion of the truth” and said that the WWE co-founder “will vigorously defend himself.”

A spokesperson for WWE's parent company, TKO Group Holdings, also shared a statement with the outlet at the time: “Mr. McMahon does not control TKO nor does he oversee the day-to-day operations of WWE. While this matter pre-dates our TKO executive team’s tenure at the company, we take Ms. Grant’s horrific allegations very seriously and are addressing this matter internally."

McMahon no longer works at WWE, as he voluntarily stepped down from his position in June 2022 after the company launched an investigation into allegations he paid a former employee $3 million to hide their affair.

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