Death, sex abuse, hush money — the dark side of Vince McMahon’s WWE
Vince McMahon, the WWF’s already scandal-plagued CEO who declined to offer comment on the allegations in this piece, allegedly couldn’t stomach the idea of putting a stop to the lucrative proceedings.“Vince decreed that they should keep going,” Abraham Josephine Riesman, author of the new book “Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America,” told The Post. “So the rest of the wrestlers had to perform knowing their friend was gravely injured, probably dead, and then [later] knowing he was dead,” said Riesman, who interviewed over 150 people — many of them quite close to McMahon — while researching tell-all tome.Riesman examines McMahon’s rise from an allegedly abusive childhood in impoverished Southern Pines, NC to a tycoon overseeing a $6B industry — and some very dark moments along the way.