New updates on the alleged “love letter” that Janel Grant sent to Vince McMahon that emerged a number of days ago.
Grant is the former WWE employee who filed a lawsuit against McMahon, WWE and John Laurinaitis on January 25, 2024.
A few days ago, the New York Post published the letter that was sent Christmas Eve 2021, and essentially the idea is that the McMahon side presents it as evidence that the relationship between Grant and McMahon was consensual, whereas Grant’s side claims she was coerced into writing it.
In new comments to POST Wrestling & Wrestlenomics, McMahon’s lawyer, Jessica Taub Rosenberg of Kasowitz Benson Torres said:
“Ms. Grant’s letter is multiple pages, includes details of their relationship and indicates she wrote 24 drafts. It makes no sense to coerce someone to write 24 drafts of a multiple-page love letter.
“Ms. Grant wrote this love letter to Mr. McMahon. Her attorney is now desperately trying to explain it away because it shows the relationship was consensual and the lawsuit’s allegations are a sham. The false explanation that it was ‘coerced’ is nonsense.
“Ms. Grant’s letter is just one piece of evidence demonstrating the relationship was consensual and her allegations in the lawsuit are false. There are more pieces of evidence like this to come that will prove her claims are meritless.”
However, Grant’s lawyer Ann Callis argues:
“For Vince McMahon, it’s further proof of misconduct. Redoing and editing the letter – it wasn’t love, it was fear of repercussions.
“She (Grant) was, frankly, an emotional prisoner and was asked to (write a love letter) by Vince McMahon.
“This isn’t a new thing, like, ‘gotcha’. It happens when people are sex trafficked.”
Callis claimed the letter being released “was a tactic to intimidate Janel and victim-shame her”.
Another update comes regarding an excerpt from the letter, in which Grant had written:
“Even though so few people know about us, the most freeing feeling this year came when we got to act like a couple – openly, freely – when Mickey, Paul and the Chef were around us.”
According to Callis, the “Paul” being referred to is Paul Mangieri, an executive assistant at WWE. People “familiar with WWE” also said Mickey Mangieri worked as an assistant to Vince McMahon.
John Laurinaitis’ lawyer Edward Brennan also provided new comments, again claiming that Laurinaitis is a victim of McMahon:
“Judge Callis was a learned judge and is a skilled litigator. I anticipate she will ultimately see that Mr. Lauriniatis is, like her client, a victim in this case, and Judge Callis will do the right thing and dismiss my client from this lawsuit. In the event she does not, my client will clear his name and reputation in Court, not in the media.”
Reps from WWE and TKO didn’t respond to a request for comment on POST Wrestling & Wrestlenomics’ report.
The aforementioned “love letter” can be read below:
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