Quoted By:
>WWF Ring Boy Tom Cole Said He Was Harassed By Several WWF Employees. “Tom Cole, now 20,
started working for the WWF in 1985 as ring boy, a gofer, in Yonkers, N.Y., when he was 13 years old.
Cole said that while on tour with the wrestling show, a WWF employee would film Cole with a video
camera while fondling the boy’s feet and masturbating. ‘He had a foot fetish,’ Cole said. ‘He would play
with all the young boys’ feet for hours at a time.’ … Cole said he was harassed by several WWF employees. He said he was grabbed in the genitals numerous times by another top WWF official, but never said anything because he was scared. Cole said the sexual harassment continued unabated until he was fired in February 1990 after rebuffing an advance by still another WWF official. In that incident, Cole said, he
was driven to the WWF official’s house, where he was asked to smoke marijuana, snort cocaine and have homosexual sex. When Cole rejected his advances, the official refused to take him home, Cole said. So Cole slept in the WWF official’s van in the driveway. The next day Cole was fired.” (Jeff Savage, “Sleaze No Illusion In World Of Wrestling,” The San Diego Union Tribune, 3/11/92)
• NOTE: Cole Later Filed Suit Against WWF Employees Mel Phillips, Pat Patterson, And Terry
Garvin. (Thomas Cole Vs. World Wrestling Federation, Mel Phillips, Pat Patterson, And Terry Garvin, U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
(New Haven), Filed 6/30/94)
