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WWE's Vince McMahon Resigns Amid Explosive Lawsuit
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Vince McMahon is out at WWE.
The wrestling legend tendered his resignation as the Executive Chairman of TKO, the company that owns WWE … just a day after an explosive lawsuit was filed by a former WWE staffer, alleging McMahon sexually assaulted her on numerous occasions.
78-year-old McMahon released a statement reiterating his innocence with respect to the disturbing allegations but would step down because it’s the best move for the wrestling promotion he built decades ago.
“Out of respect for the WWE Universe, the extraordinary TKO business and its board members and shareholders, partners and constituents, and all of the employees and Superstars who helped make WWE into the global leader it is today, I have decided to resign from my executive chairmanship and the TKO board of directors, effective immediately.”
McMahon was not running the day-to-day operations for WWE … but still had a prominent role within TKO. TKO Group Holdings has owned WWE since its purchase in 2023.
The massive shakeup comes after a federal lawsuit was filed in Connecticut on Thursday by Janel Grant … where she claimed she was subjected to degrading sexual acts at the hands of Vince.
Amid the allegations, Grant accused McMahon of defecating on her during a threesome in 2020.
She says the situation left her “miserable and enraged,” though she didn’t leave because “in her years of experience with McMahon, she knew her requests to stop would be ignored at best or used to destroy her career and reputation at worst.”
Former WWE executive John Laurinaitis was also named in the suit.
Story developing …
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Jason Momoa Jamming Out in Hawaii With His Band
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Jason Momoa is taking his band back to his roots … playing their first concert in his native Hawaii.
The “Aquaman” star and his rock band, ÖOF TATATÁ, jammed out Sunday night at Maoni Waikiki in Honolulu … and TMZ has video of the performance.
Jason told the crowd how meaningful it was for him to be rocking out at the famed International Marketplace in Waikiki … seeing as he’s from the area.
He said it was always a dream of his to play there and he has fond memories at the venue with his dad.
Folks who were there tell us Jason and his band jammed for about 2 hours … playing 10 songs and a bunch of covers from bands like Metallica and Red Hot Chili Peppers … among others.
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We saw Jason bring his two kids onstage back in June during a concert in Los Angeles … and his band’s heading back to the mainland for upcoming shows in New York, Massachusetts, Georgia and Florida.
Rock on!!!
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Grieving the dead is complicated. Here's how you can help someone experiencing loss
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Grief is complicated, but author Annie Sklaver Orenstein tells Morning Edition there are simple ways to help those grieving a loss.
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Annie Sklaver Orenstein was 25 when her brother Ben was killed while serving in Afghanistan.
She found solace in writing about him and others who have lost siblings. Earlier this year, she published Always a Sibling: The Forgotten Mourner’s Guide to Grief, a book about processing grief.
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Orenstein spoke about the complexities of loss and how people respond in the moment in a Morning Edition interview with Michel Martin. We reached out to Orenstein in the wake of the pop singer Mariah Carey losing both her mother and sister on the same day. Carey’s mother was 87, according to public records, and lived in an assisted living facility in Florida. Her sister was 63 and in hospice care in New York state.
Carey was reportedly estranged from her sister. And that got us to thinking about how complicated grief can be when there are multiple deaths, for example, or estrangement — something that just doesn’t fit common narratives of what grief should look like.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Martin: One of the reasons you started writing about this is that you lost your brother in Afghanistan in 2009. And I just want to make it clear that you were not estranged, that you were, in fact, very close. Let’s just start with losing a sibling. You’ve written that people act like it just doesn’t matter. Like, how so?
Orenstein: Once I started actually doing the research, I realized that my experience is actually very common — the diminishment of sibling grievers. And it’s through a lot of small actions. It’s things like people asking how your parents are doing, but they don’t ask you how you are doing. Or if they find out you lost a sibling, the first question might be, “Were you close?” as if your answer to that will determine whether or not you’re allowed to be grieving or the extent to which you’re allowed to be grieving. But we grieve imperfect people. We grieve imperfect relationships, sometimes even more so or more complicated than if you were really close. And so those qualifiers, they’re not really relevant, but they can make you question your own grief and whether or not you are allowed to grieve.
Martin: And adding to that, it gets complicated when there is estrangement, as we think there was in Mariah Carey’s case. Can you talk more about that, how that complicates things, whether people know that or not in your circle?
Orenstein: You know, I think there is a feeling that, you know, if you’re estranged, you’re probably not grieving. In some cases, that might be true. There’s something called abbreviated grief where you just don’t grieve very much. That can happen if you had a weak emotional attachment. You know, there is a type of grief called anticipatory grief, where you’re essentially grieving the person while they are still alive. And so when they die, you might not grieve as much as you think you will, but that’s because you’ve already grieved them. And so in some cases of estrangement, you know, that might be what happened, but in other cases, people often hold out a hope that there can be some reconciliation and death takes away those opportunities.
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Martin: Why do you think we have such a hard time in this country supporting people through grief?
Orenstein: I think in our country, we’re uncomfortable with things that we can’t fix, things that we can’t solve. You know, people want to say the right thing because they want to fix it and they want to make you feel better. And so grief makes us really uncomfortable because there’s nothing you can say that will fix it.
Martin: So let’s talk about what you can do to support someone who has lost a sibling or in Mariah Carey’s case, has lost a sibling and has lost a parent, or is dealing with this, what you’ve called this complex grief. What are some things not to say? Are there some things that you can say or do, even if you know you can’t fix it?
Orenstein: We can’t grieve for someone else as much as we often want to. But what we can do is go over and do their dishes. We can go grocery shopping for them. We can drop off dinner. We can do small things to reduce that overwhelm and overload so that our brains and our emotions do have the bandwidth and capacity to process what’s going on. So a lot of what we can do is show up. Community support is proven. It is a huge way to help someone who is grieving.
This digital article was edited by Obed Manuel.
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Tell us: Do you have an 'only in L.A.' story?
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There’s no place in the world quite like L.A. If you’ve spent any time living in this diverse, vibrant city, chances are you have a few stories under your belt that only could have happened here.
Here are two favorites from my own life:
Several years ago my husband and his parents took my 8-year-old son to a magic shop. (My kid was really into magic at the time.) Afterward I called my husband to ask how it went. “David Arquette bought him a magic set,” my husband said. I didn’t think I heard him right.
But when I asked him to repeat himself, it turns out I did. Arquette, who was a regular at the shop, heard the salesperson talking to my kid about magic, and he added a big magic set to his own purchases that he left at the counter for my son.
This next story is even stranger. My first dog’s foster mom asked me to go with her to the Bodhi Tree (an iconic New Age bookstore in West Hollywood that has since closed) to hear a lecture from a chiropractor who claimed he was given healing powers after an encounter with an alien. The chiropractor transmitted his power to my dog’s foster mom and she transmitted it to me so I could provide healing to my aging dog.
Only in L.A.!
Now it’s your turn. Please submit your best only-in-L.A. story below (300 words or less), including your full name and email address so we can contact you if we publish it.
Thanks for sharing, and we can’t wait to read your stories!
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