Linda McMahon made a fortune with WWE. Wrestling scandals now shadow her rise. (original) (raw)

In the wrestlingring, where the men are bare-chested and the women don’t wear much more, World Wrestling Entertainment CEOLinda McMahon always looked like she was on her way to a Chamber of Commerce meeting: hair perfectly coiffed, wearing statement jewelry and conservative pantsuits.

She periodically joined the show for wildnarratives about her family in the 2000s, trading scripted blows with her adult daughter and — in one particularly vivid storyline —pretending to be drugged and in a wheelchair as her husband, WWE co-founder Vince McMahon, carried on an affair, later kicking him in the crotch as tens of thousands of fans roared.