Vince McMahon accuser agrees to stay trial at Justice Department request

The woman currently suing former WWE boss Vince McMahon is suspending her trial at the request of the Justice Department, according to her attorney.

Janel Grant, the former WWE employee who sued McMahon, the company and former WWE executive John Laurinaitis in January, has agreed to stay her trial.

“Ms. Grant has consented to a request from the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York to stay her case against Mr. McMahon, WWE and Mr. Laurinaitis, following an ongoing non-public investigation,” Ann Callis said. , lawyer. for Grant, said in a statement to ABC News. “We will cooperate on all appropriate next steps.”

ABC News previously reported that McMahon was under federal investigation.

The investigation stems from accusations of sexual misconduct against McMahon by a number of women.

“Over the summer,” McMahon received a grand jury subpoena, the sources said, referring to summer 2023.

A Justice Department attorney working in the Southern District of New York filed four items under seal in Grant’s civil lawsuit against McMahon. We don’t know exactly what these elements say.

McMahon, 78, announced in January, shortly after the lawsuit was filed, that he would step down from his role as executive chairman of TKO and vacate his place on the TKO board of directors. TKO Group Holdings was formed when World Wrestling Entertainment merged with Endeavor’s Ultimate Fighting Championship in April 2023.

At the time he resigned, he said in a statement: “I stand by my earlier statement that Ms. Grant’s trial is filled with lies, fabricated lewd instances that never occurred and constitutes a vindictive distortion of the truth. to vigorously defend myself against these baseless accusations and I look forward to clearing my name.”

McMahon ruled WWE for decades, taking over the wrestling organization in 1982 from his father, Vincent J. McMahon, and growing it from a Northeast regional promotion to a global company.