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 World Wrestling Entertainment from grooming and sexually abusing children in the 1980s and 1990s.
McMahon and her husband, Vince McMahon, ran the wrestling empire beginning in the early 1980s, with Linda McMahon working as its president and CEO until 2009. Over those years, their company grew into a cultural force, filling arenas and elevating characters such as Hulk Hogan and the Rock into household names.
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.
