Janel Grant’s attorneys have filed to strike statements made in Vince McMahon’s preliminary response to the lawsuit.
On Wednesday, Grant’s attorneys filed a motion to strike against what they called “inflammatory lies” made in McMahon’s memorandum. Grant’s motion says that the statements made were used “as a platform to launch vicious falsehoods attacking Janel’s moral character in an attempt to harass and intimidate her into submission.”
The motion further states:
McMahon’s easily refuted lies have no place in this case. It was not necessary, reasonable, or responsible to use a public filing to impugn Janel’s moral character. Indeed, McMahon’s desperate attempt to distract from the legal substance of the Motion highlight its weakness and the weakness of his overall case.
This Court has inherent power to strike a parties’ filings. Accordingly, Janel respectfully requests that the Court exercise that power to strike the Motion’s “Preliminary Statement” in its entirety and admonish McMahon and his counsel that such statements have no place in civil litigation.
In a statement released to Post Wrestling, McMahon’s lawyer Jessica T. Rosenberg issued a response to Grant’s motion to strike:
Plaintiff had no right to bring this case in a public court but did so anyway. Now that she chose this public forum to falsely accuse Mr. McMahon, she wants to silence his ability to respond. She can’t have it both ways.
On Tuesday, McMahon filed a memorandum to seek arbitration. His statement vehemently denied Grant’s accusations of sexual assault, abuse, and trafficking:
By publicly filing her salacious, false and defamatory Complaint, Plaintiff has brazenly and intentionally violated a binding contract to arbitrate. The Complaint’s outrageous claims of sexual abuse and coercion are pure fiction—plainly intended to garner publicity—and are flatly contradicted by Plaintiff’s own contemporaneous statements. Contrary to Plaintiff’s false allegations, Plaintiff and Defendant engaged in a consensual relationship during which Defendant never coerced Plaintiff into doing anything and never mistreated her in any way.
McMahon resigned from TKO and WWE in January shortly after Grant filed the lawsuit.
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