Court Docs Indicate CNN Producer Bragged About Luring Girls

John Griffin

A veteran CNN producer who worked “shoulder to shoulder” with ex-anchor Chris Cuomo bragged about luring girls as young as 7 to his home for “sexual subservience” training and believed “a woman is a woman regardless of age,” according to The NY Post citing court papers released Monday.

John Griffin, who has been suspended from the network pending an investigation into the allegations, attempted to lure at least four girls, ages 16, 14, 13, and 9, to his Vermont ski house for deviant training sessions on such things as “spanking” and “c–k worship,” the documents allege.

The 44-year-old cable-network honcho was arrested Friday by FBI agents, but his indictment was unsealed Monday. It revealed how the producer used a “BDSM dating, Fetish and Kink” Web site to try to find parents who would allow Griffin to train their minor daughters to be “sexually subservient,” the papers claim.

Throughout 2020, Griffin had a number of conversations with the “purported” parents of young girls where he “espoused a ‘way of life’ in which women are sexually subservient and inferior to men,” prosecutors wrote in the indictment.

“There is a natural, wanton whore at the core of ANY female, whether she knows it or not,” Griffin told a person who claimed to be the mother of a 16-year-old daughter last summer, prosecutors said.

He then allegedly proposed “a little mother-daughter trip” to his Ludlow, Vermont, ski house for the sexual training, the indictment says.

Around the same time, Griffin spoke to another person who claimed to be the mother of 13-year-old and 9-year-old girls, saying, “It’s your job, in concert with me, [to] see that [the 13-year-old daughter] is trained properly,” according to the document.

John Griffin, of CNN, has been arrested on federal charges of sexually abusing underage girls.

“When handled appropriately, a woman is a woman regardless of her age,” Griffin told the person, court records allege.

Chris Cuomo, James Griffin

“One of the big lies of this society is that women are delicate innocent angels and they are in actuality, naturally, the dirtiest sluts possible, in EVERY metric,” he added, according to the papers.

After a number of text and phone conversations with the person, Griffin allegedly transferred the purported parent $3,350 to cover the costs for a trip from Nevada to Boston.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Vermont, the 44-year-old also "attempted to entice two other children over the internet to engage in sexual activity" and in April 2020, he "proposed to engage in a ‘virtual training session’ over a video chat that would include him instructing the mother and her 14-year-old daughter to remove their clothing and touch each other at his direction,"  reports Fox News.

Additionally, Griffin "proposed to a purported mother of a 16-year-old daughter that she take a ‘little mother-daughter trip’ to Griffin’s Ludlow ski house for sexual training involving the child" in June 2020. 

The federal government intends to seek the forfeiture of Griffin’s house, Tesla, a Mercedes, and other property such as computers and cameras that were used in the commission of the charged offenses, according to the indictment.