Vince & Linda McMahon are ‘currently separated’

Confirming a longstanding rumor, Vince & Linda McMahon are officially not together as a couple anymore.

Laura Brevetti, Linda McMahon’s attorney, confirmed to the Washington Post that Vince & Linda are “currently separated.” The news was included in a story the Washington Post published on Linda last night as she is set to join Donald Trump’s administration for his second presidency.

While Linda & Vince have been married for nearly six decades, Dave Meltzer wrote in 2022 that they have “lived largely apart for a long time.”

It was announced on Tuesday night that President-elect Trump is nominating Linda to his cabinet as secretary of the Department of Education. She had been considered a leading candidate for secretary of Commerce but got this position instead after Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick was chosen for the Commerce job.

Linda will need to be confirmed by the United States Senate for her role, though there is expected to be a 53-47 Republican majority in the Senate following the results of the 2024 election. When Linda was nominated to lead the Small Business Administration during Trump’s first presidency, she was easily confirmed with bipartisan support in an 81-19 vote.

Last month, a new lawsuit was filed against Linda McMahon, Vince McMahon, and WWE relating to the company’s “ring boy scandal” of the 1980s-1990s. Linda could face questions about the lawsuit during her confirmation process.

Brevetti claimed to the Washington Post that the lawsuit is “baseless.”

“This lawsuit based upon thirty-plus-year-old allegations is filled with scurrilous lies, exaggerations, and misrepresentations,” Brevetti said.

Vince McMahon and WWE are facing a separate lawsuit from former WWE employee Janel Grant, who has accused Vince of physical and emotional abuse, sexual assault, and sex trafficking. Vince resigned from WWE and its parent company TKO Group Holdings after that lawsuit was filed. This summer, Linda said everyone in her family is “doing great” in the wake of Grant’s allegations.

Grant’s lawsuit has been on a six-month pause since June amid a legal investigation into Vince. That six months runs through December 11.

In addition to her cabinet role in the first Trump admin, Linda’s political history includes two unsuccessful Senate campaigns as a Republican candidate. She is a former executive for WWE and once served on the Connecticut Board of Education. Recently, Linda has been helping run a pro-Trump fundraising organization.