In 1992, the first female referee in the WWF franchise accused the chairman of the company, Vince McMahon, of raping her six years earlier, only to find out that the statute of limitations had expired, as New York Magazine reports. With no witnesses to the crime coming forward, it was a he said/she said situation that reporters who covered the emerging WWE (then called the WWF) wouldn’t dare bring up with McMahon for fear of losing access.
Now, Rita Chatterton, the performer with a hall of fame career in the WWE universe, has a witness who corroborates her story has come forward: a professional wrestler named Leonard Inzitari, known in the ring as Mario Mancini. “I remember it like it was yesterday,” says Inzitari. “She was a wreck. She was shaking. She was crying.”
As has been previously reported here on NatZero, McMahon stepped down from his position as CEO, handing the reins to his daughter, while the publicly-traded corporation investigates money paid to former employees for their silence relating to sexual harassment accusations about McMahon, who is the husband of former Trump Administration SBA Administrator Linda McMahon. With Chatterton’s accusation now substantiated, Vince McMahon’s history of alleged sexual abuse spans back 36 years.