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Vince McMahon has reached a multimillion-dollar legal settlement with a former WWE referee who accused him of raping her in 1986.
PEOPLE has reached out to WWE and McMahon’s attorney, Jerry McDevitt, for comment.
“Mr. McMahon denies and always has denied raping Ms. Chatterton,” he said. “And he settled the case solely to avoid the cost of litigation.”
“She looks at me and bursts out in tears,” Inzitari toldNew York Magazine. “And she grabbed me, and I go, ‘Rita, what happened?’ "
Inzitari said that’s when Chatterton told him that she had been in McMahon’s limousine, where he allegedly raped her.
“[I] heard a lot of different stories,” Inzitari told the outlet of rumors surrounding McMahon. “He was strange, brother.”
A spokesperson for the company claimed to theWSJthat the relationship between Vince and the now-former employee was consensual.
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After stepping down as head of WWE, McMahon — the company’s controlling shareholder —returnedthis month, citing “upcoming media rights negotiations” and “increased industry-wide demand for quality content and live events.”
“The only way for WWE to fully capitalize on this opportunity is for me to return as Executive Chairman and support the management team in the negotiations for our media rights and to combine that with a review of strategic alternatives,” he said in astatement. “My return will allow WWE, as well as any transaction counterparties, to engage in these processes knowing they will have the support of the controlling shareholder.”
source: people.com
