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>But the deluge continued when Vince himself was accused of sexual harassment by ex-employee Rita Chatterton. Chatterton had worked for McMahon in the eighties as Rita Marie, the WWF's first female referee, and she came out of the woodwork in April 1992 as the swell of hostility against the WWF was at its most fervent. When she appeared on a special episode of Geraldo Rivera's sensationalist social commentary show Now It Can Be Told subtitled Wrestling's Ring of Vice, Chatterton delineated the tale for the world.
> Speaking in a sombre, submissive tone, she told how McMahon had promised that her face would appear on Time magazine and how she would be given a contract of half a million dollars per year. Onlookers in the know immediately sensed that the exposé they were watching was going to be just another smear campaign against the WWF; Vince did not have guaranteed contracts, and even if he had done the figure would still be absurdly high for a referee. The majority of the boys hadn't earned anything close to that kind of money, even at the company's peak when they worked several hundred dates per year
> Chatterton continued, and sharp ears in Stamford pricked up when she contradicted herself by first saying how well her career had gone by citing appearances at Madison Square Garden and a lengthy feature about her in WWF Magazine, but then talked about how she had struggled for work and so met with Vince in his limousine to ask for more dates. If this part of her story was obviously untrue, they argued, then it stood to reason that it all was.
> Speaking in a sombre, submissive tone, she told how McMahon had promised that her face would appear on Time magazine and how she would be given a contract of half a million dollars per year. Onlookers in the know immediately sensed that the exposé they were watching was going to be just another smear campaign against the WWF; Vince did not have guaranteed contracts, and even if he had done the figure would still be absurdly high for a referee. The majority of the boys hadn't earned anything close to that kind of money, even at the company's peak when they worked several hundred dates per year
> Chatterton continued, and sharp ears in Stamford pricked up when she contradicted herself by first saying how well her career had gone by citing appearances at Madison Square Garden and a lengthy feature about her in WWF Magazine, but then talked about how she had struggled for work and so met with Vince in his limousine to ask for more dates. If this part of her story was obviously untrue, they argued, then it stood to reason that it all was.
