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Stephanie McMahon, the daughter of former WWE founder Vince McMahon and now the company’s Co-CEO, began the company’s second-quarter earnings call with a tribute to her father as a “true founder and entrepreneur.” Earlier this summer, she and Nick Khan were named Co-CEOs of the company as a board-initiated…

Gene Lebell, who had an acting and stunt career that stretched from The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet to 24 and who the WWE called today “a towering figure in the world of martial arts,” has died. He was 89. Lebell reportedly had more than 1,000 TV and movie credits, mostly as a stuntman, but…

World Wrestling Entertainment said Tuesday an independent board probe of former CEO Vince McMahon showed additional unrecorded payments of $5 million, bringing the total to $19.6 million. McMahon resigned from all positions at WWE on July 22 after news broke and the company acknowledged they were investigating him for…

Shares of WWE jumped to a new 52-week high Monday, rising more than 10% amid executive and financial tumult on speculation that Vince McMahon's exit could nudge a sale of the company. "This is a challenging environment with the equities of most of the logical buyers depressed, but there is demand for live event…

World Wrestling Entertainment said Monday that $14.6 million of payments by former CEO Vince McMahon from 2006-22 weren't recorded in the company's accounts but should have been, and as a result the company will revise some of its previously issued financial statements. McMahon resigned Friday as CEO and chairman of WW…

Hours after Vince McMahon’s retirement as CEO from his WWE empire, his daughter, Stephanie McMahon, passed along her father’s thanks to fans in a live appearance on Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown. The new chairwoman and co-CEO of WWE, Stephanie McMahon now joins former CAA agent and co-head of television Nick Khan…

Vince McMahon, the longtime CEO and chairman of World Wrestling Entertainment, announced today he’s retiring from the company at age 77. He had temporarily stepped away from running the company amid a scandal. WWE’s board of directors has been investigating McMahon over allegations that he’d paid millions of dollars…

Vince McMahon, who stepped aside as CEO of the WWE last month pending the outcome of a probe into alleged misconduct, paid $12 million in hush money to four different women, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. The amount and scope of the payoffs is significantly larger than was previously known…

The Colorado Avalanche and Tampa Bay Lightning continued the National Hockey League’s ratings triumph Friday night, pulling in a big 0.8 and total average audience of 3.44 million for ABC’s telecast. The game no doubt lured a number of fans looking for a series-closing win by the Avalanche. But Tampa Bay said “Not…

WWE Chairman/CEO Vince McMahon was a winner and a loser this week. First, the bad news: He stepped down from his executive position with the WWE as an investigation into misconduct and secret agreements was surfaced by the Wall St. Journal. Now, the good news: He appeared at the start of Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDow…

Vince McMahon, the longtime face of and force behind the WWE and the company’s chairman and CEO, is stepping aside pending an investigation into “alleged executive misconduct” by a special committee of the board of directors. His daughter, Stephanie McMahon, who herself had recently taken a pause from the company in…

The World Wrestling Entertainment board is investigating longtime Chairman/CEO Vince McMahon for previously undisclosed settlement agreements with former employees. Those include a payoff of $3 million to a female employee he allegedly had an affair with, according to a Wall Street Journal report. McMahon is the…