Brock Lesnar was due to make his in-ring return for the 2024 30-men
Royal Rumble match; after the scandal broke, he was replaced by
Bron Breakker. After the Royal Rumble, Lesnar was due to enter into a
feud with
Dominik Mysterio that would culminate at
Elimination Chamber: Perth a month later, and then wrestle
Gunther at
WrestleMania XL. He was also removed as a playable character in
2K's video games
WWE SuperCard and
WWE 2K24, and from the introductory "signature" of all WWE programming. On February 1, co-defendant John Laurinaitis' lawyer Edward Brennan told
Vice News that Laurinaitis was also a victim of McMahon's
coercive control, and said that Laurinaitis would defend himself on that basis. On February 7, Laurinaitis alleged that WWE's executives were fully aware of allegations that former WWE wrestler
Ashley Massaro was raped by someone posing as a U.S. military doctor during a WWE tour of
Kuwait, which contradicted earlier statements by WWE that they were unaware of them; he denied that the company had engaged in a cover up. Two days later, Vice published a previously unseen statement by Massaro, who accused McMahon of preying upon other female wrestlers. On March 11, Front Office Sports published an article that revealed the identities of four unnamed corporate figures referenced in the lawsuit, which Grant's attorney
Ann Callis confirmed was correct: • Corporate Officers No. 1 and No. 2, who were described in the lawsuit as McMahon's "
fixers", were identified as WWE president
Nick Khan and WWE COO Brad Blum; On April 23, McMahon's lawyers filed a motion to compel
arbitration in the case under the terms of the NDA, and stated that McMahon withheld payments as he believed that Grant had broken the terms of the agreement. A day later, Grant's attorneys filed a motion to strike McMahon's motion, alleging that he had used the motion and his preliminary statement to further intimidate Grant. On May 30, Grant agreed to "stay her case" against McMahon for six months at the request of the
U.S. Department of Justice, which was launching a criminal investigation into the allegations. On December 24, both McMahon and the WWE filed motions seeking to transition the lawsuit to
arbitration. On January 10, 2025, the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that McMahon had agreed to pay a $400,000 fine to the SEC and to reimburse to WWE in exchange for charges of
false accounting being dropped. In the agreement, the SEC stated that they found McMahon had failed to disclose two non-disclosure agreements a 2019 agreement with an unidentified woman for and a 2022 agreement, presumably with Grant, for —which caused discrepancies in WWE's financial filings that covered those years. Despite McMahon alleging that the SEC fine had closed the case, Callis confirmed that both the criminal investigation and civil lawsuit were still ongoing. On January 31, Grant filed an amended complaint that expanded on her grievances against McMahon and WWE. Many individuals mentioned in the original complaint and later identified by third-party sources—including Khan, Lesnar, and celebrity doctor
Carlon Colker, who was accused of supplying Grant with unidentified medication at McMahon's request—were de-anonymised and explicitly named. Grant also made further allegations: • In September 2020, McMahon directed Grant to create customised pornographic content for longtime WWE producer
Michael Hayes and his crew. In July, retired UFC fighter
Daniel Cormier claimed that Lesnar remained on a TKO-maintained "ban list" that precluded him from appearing on UFC or WWE programming. Despite Cormier's claims and the lawsuit still being active, Lesnar would make his return to WWE at their
2025 SummerSlam event in August at the end of a
WWE Championship match between
John Cena and
Cody Rhodes. After the event, Grant's legal team released a statement claiming that WWE had failed to hold anybody accountable for a supposed culture of abuse under McMahon and that any "attempt to sweep misconduct under the rug" would backfire. ==See also ==