Nominee for education secretary named in WWE sexual abuse suit
The Straits Times|November 23, 2024
NEW YORK - Ms Linda McMahon, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for education secretary, has been accused in a recent lawsuit of failing to stop a ringside announcer for WWE from grooming and sexually abusing children in the 1980s and 1990s.
Nominee for education secretary named in WWE sexual abuse suit

Ms McMahon and her husband Vince McMahon ran the wrestling empire beginning in the early 1980s. She was its president and chief executive until 2009.

Allegations that underage boys were abused by employees have dogged the organization for decades. The recent lawsuit was filed in October by five former "ring boys," who ran errands and helped set up before matches for WWE in the 1980s.

The lawsuit claims that the five boys were sexually abused by the organization's ringside announcer and ring crew chief Melvin Phillips Jr, who died in 2012.

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