— The ongoing legal battle between former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon and former employee Janel Grant continues to wage on. On April 23, McMahon filed a motion to compel arbitration and soon thereafter Grant’s lawyers responded with a motion of their own to strike comments McMahon made which they contend spread “inflammatory lies” and was used “as a platform to launch vicious falsehoods attacking Janel’s moral character in an attempt to harass and intimidate her into submission.”

— Yesterday, McMahon’s attorneys fired back, claiming that Grant’s motion was the “height of hypocrisy” while noting that Grant’s lawsuit contained private text messages to her from McMahon but did not include any of her responses to him. They claim that Grant’s texts back “are equally and often more aggressive and provocative” but admit that Vince no longer has these messages as he deleted them.

“Ignoring her obligations to keep the nature of their relationship or the dispute private, the Complaint unnecessarily includes private sexual text messages from Defendant without including any of Plaintiff’s responses to those texts—responses which are equally and often more aggressive and provocative than Defendant’s communications and show not only that the relationship was consensual, but also that in many instances the Plaintiff was the initiator.”

“Defendant’s communications and show not only that the relationship was consensual, but also that in many instances the Plaintiff was the initiator. Indeed, while Defendant no longer is in possession of the text messages between the Parties as he deleted them when he broke off the relationship, the discovery in this case will show that Plaintiff sent him sexually explicit images of herself and texted him to say, among other things”

— Those other things include:

• That she was in love with him and he was the love of her life;
• That he was her best friend;
• That she wanted to have sex with him and providing graphic detail;
• That she fantasized about being held down, enjoyed being in pain, and wanted rough sex;
• That she wanted Defendant to watch her have sex with other people and know about her sex with others;
• That she wanted Defendant to give her thousands of dollars for clothes, plastic surgery, and other gifts;
• That she wanted to have a future with Defendant even after signing the Agreement; and
• That she wanted Defendant to keep living in the same building, so she could continue to see him, even after signing the Agreement.