A former WWE employee is suing Vince McMahon ... claiming he repeatedly sexually assaulted her, sex trafficked her -- and then paid her off to stay quiet about it all.
The disturbing allegations were made by Janel Grant in a lawsuit filed on Thursday in a federal court in Connecticut.
In the suit, Grant says she met McMahon back in 2019 ... at a time when she was at rock bottom. She says her parents had just died .