Vince McMahon's "Rosebud" moment: Was a family secret behind his career of abuse?

John Sutter : Vince McMahon , erstwhile boss of WWE , has been accused of sexual harassment and abuse.

He says he sold WWE to Endeavor Group Holdings , the Hollywood powerhouse run by former superagent Ari Emanuel .

McMahon now seems poised to join the annals of all-time corporate sex fiends, he says.

Sutter says McMahon was a game changer in American entertainment and culture.

Vince McMahon talked about his early life in a 2000 interview with Playboy magazine.

Irvin Muchnick : Did the chaotic, violent, hugely American life of Vincent Kennedy McMahon have its own "Rosebud" moment? McMahon also told Playboy interviewer that he had experienced sexual abuse in that gothic backwater.

McMahon appears to have offered this story up as a kind of explanation for who and what he later became.