WWE Ring Boy Dies After Pedophile Accusation

David Bixenspan is reporting that former WWE ring boy Tom Cole has died by suicide at 50 years old. Cole made explosive allegations in the early 90’s about alleged pedophilia. You can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255.

 


 

Lee Cole wrote, “My brother Tom Committed suicide a couple of hours ago. Vince Mc Mahon and his wife Linda let child molesters into their companies years ago and did everything possible to cover up what they did to my brother. I hope you can sleep good at night Vince. Our family suffers. Thank U.”

Bixenspan tweeted, “As his brother Lee tweeted below, Tom Cole, 50, the central accuser in the WWE ring boy molestation scandal, killed himself tonight.

I’ll have a lot more to say, but this fucking sucks.

If you don’t know his story, then start with my BI feature from Oct.”

Bixenspan wrote in Business Insider in October, “In 1992, WWE, the wrestling behemoth that McMahon cofounded with her husband, Vince, faced allegations that a ring announcer sexually abused the teen boys who helped him set up for matches.

Several boys said the announcer, Mel Phillips, repeatedly rubbed their feet against his crotch in incidents going back to 1986.

Vince McMahon told a reporter that both he and Linda McMahon suspected Phillips of taking a ‘peculiar and unnatural’ interest in children for years before they finally fired him, according to testimony in court records.”

WWE attorney Jerry McDevitt said “the only persons implicated were not senior officials, nor were there any claims of anything approximating conventional forms of sexual abuse such as rape, sodomy, etc. Instead, [a young former WWE employee] claimed Mel Phillips had a foot fetish and played with his feet.” He also described allegations that the McMahons were aware of the accusations against Phillips while continuing to pay him as a ring announcer as “outlandish” and “classic libel.”

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