{"id":1520350,"date":"2022-06-17T08:50:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520350"},"modified":"2022-06-17T08:50:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:50:45","slug":"wwes-vince-mcmahon-focus-of-investigation-with-ex-employee-3-million-in-hush-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wwes-vince-mcmahon-focus-of-investigation-with-ex-employee-3-million-in-hush-money\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE\u2019s Vince McMahon Focus of Investigation with Ex-employee, $3 Million in Hush Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwwes-vince-mcmahon-focus-of-investigation-with-ex-employee-3-million-in-hush-money%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520350&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>World Wrestling Entertainment chief Vince McMahon, 76, is at the focus of an investigation within the WWE involving hush money McMahon may or may not have used to keep his relationship with a former employee under wraps.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/wwe-board-probes-secret-3-million-hush-pact-by-ceo-vince-mcmahon-sources-say-11655322722?mod=hp_lead_pos4\"><em>The<\/em> <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/wwe-board-probes-secret-3-million-hush-pact-by-ceo-vince-mcmahon-sources-say-11655322722?mod=hp_lead_pos4\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em>, eight members of the WWE\u2019s board of directors are spearheading an investigation looking at a potential relationship between McMahon and a female paralegal employed by WWE between 2019 and 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Simpson Thacher &#038; Bartlett LLP will represent the execs looking into the alleged affair.<\/p>\n<p>Board members were first tipped off about the relationship when a number of the executives received a series of emails coming from a friend of the unnamed paralegal.<\/p>\n<p>Vince has been married to political executive Linda McMahon since 1966. She previously served under President Donald Trump as administrator of the Small Business Administration.<\/p>\n<p>On March 30, the initial email detailed that the female employee began a relationship with McMahon, which ultimately ended in emotional distress and an NDA.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WWE\u2019s board is investigating a secret $3 million settlement that longtime CEO Vince McMahon reached with a former employee with whom he allegedly had an affair, according to documents and people familiar <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FXdiFlpfiq\">https:\/\/t.co\/FXdiFlpfiq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJ\/status\/1537166111770398721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The ex-employee attested to seeing her salary double \u2014 from $100,000 to $200,000 \u2014\u00a0as an apparent result of the relationship, also acknowledging that she had endured financial hardships at the time. <\/p>\n<p>Then the account alleged that McMahon \u201cgave her like a toy\u201d to fellow WWE executive John Laurinaitis, known by his wrestling moniker Johnny Ace. In 2021, the employee worked as an assistant to Laurinaitis, the head of talent relations at WWE.<\/p>\n<p>She eventually quit and reached a nondisclosure agreement with McMahon, paired with attorney Jerry Devitt, in January 2022. The pact was reported at $3 million total.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nondisclosure agreement provided an upfront payment of $1 million to the former employee, with the remaining $2 million to be doled out over a period of five years,\u201d noted <em>WSJ<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>McDevitt, from K&#038;L Gates law firm in Pittsburgh, previously defended McMahon in the 1990s when the WWE chief faced \u201cfederal charges of distributing and conspiring to distribute steroids to WWE wrestlers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McDevitt responded to <em>The<\/em> <em>Journal<\/em>, relaying that the relationship was deemed consensual by both parties and that the employee never alleged any harassment by McMahon. McDevitt also denied any claims of handing out hush money after the employee quit.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned with OutKick as the story develops.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Follow along on Twitter:\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alejandroaveela?lang=en\"><em>@AlejandroAveela<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Wrestling Entertainment chief Vince McMahon, 76, is at the focus of an investigation within the WWE involving hush money McMahon may or may not have used to keep his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}