“Defendants were fully aware of the systemic and pervasive abuse and did nothing to prevent or stop it,” the law firm representing the claimants said.
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    88·
    5 months ago

    Vince McMahon?

    The rapist Donald Trump’s very close friend Vince McMahon?

    The rapist Donald Trump who was also a very close friend of Jeffery Epstein’s?

    The rapist Donald Trump who is also a very close friend of Jim Jordan?

    The rapist Donald Trump who is also a very close friend of Matt Gaetz?

    You don’t think there might be some sort of pattern, do you? I can’t quite tell myself, but I’m thinking maybe?

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      20·
      5 months ago

      You should have started with:

      Vince McMahon?

      Vince McMahon the rapist?

        • SeaJ@lemm.ee
          13·
          5 months ago

          He tried to force Rita Chatter ton to give him a bj but she refused and he raped her in his limo. Mario Mancini corroborated the events.

          He also appears to have forced a paralegal into a threesome a few years ago and shit on her…

  • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
    20·
    5 months ago

    I know he was super gross with the talent.

    What’s surprising to me is that anyone let their kids around these psychos. I had never even heard of a “Ring boy” before this week and was watching wrestling in the 80s.

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      16·
      5 months ago

      Oh yeah. These allegations and his role in them go back years. Behind the Bastards did a pretty good series of episodes on McMahon. The guy is a massive piece of rapist shit.

    • Guy Dudeman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      5 months ago

      The cycle continues. A tale as old as time. The only difference is that victims are finally being supported and perpetrators are finally (sort of) being held accountable.

    • bamfic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      I read this in Jerry Seinfeld’s voice.

      Who maybe isn’t a rapist, but certainly waa creepy when dating that youbg girl, and an asshole genocide supporter.

  • Numenor@lemmy.world
    14·
    5 months ago

    The suit, filed in Baltimore County, accuses McMahon and his wife, Linda McMahon, and World Wrestling Entertainment and its parent company, TKO Holdings, of allowing the “open, rampant abuse” of so-called “ring boys” as young as 12 who acted as assistants to ringside announcer Melvin Phillips Jr. in the 1980s and 1990s

    • stoned_ape@lemmy.world
      10·
      5 months ago

      Vince should hang and so should Linda (both for a number of things)

      They knew about it, fired everyone, then rehired them

      But also TKO purchased them much more recently than these events, and the DOJ knew about it after it happened and went after him for steroids instead. It’s stupid bc there’s only a handful of people left who could (rightfully) face anything on this, but I don’t think TKO is one of them? Can someone ELI5 this?

      Behind the Bastards did SIX whole episodes on VKM which is a great listen

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
    9·
    5 months ago

    The story came out years ago and involved pat Patterson. Although many people insist it’s just a smear against Patterson to involve him, because he was the first ever openly gay wrestler. I can’t decide what’s true but from the rumors, three people were involved but only two were punished and Patterson was let off, but then again Patterson was important and could have been saved because of his role in the company