Seventeen years ago, after a former World Wrestling Entertainment referee claimed on Geraldo Rivera’s syndicated TV show that Vincent McMahon had sexually assaulted her, the WWE founder and his wife Linda McMahon filed a lawsuit against the woman and media outlets who had made her claims public, asking for $1 million in damages due to “severe emotional distress.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=119994