A Look At Triple H and Stephanie McMahon’s Marriage

The McMahon-Helmsley Era truly began on October 25, 2003 when Paul Levesque, famously known as Triple H, married Stephanie McMahon at St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church in Sleepy Hollow, New York. Triple H’s father was the best man, and the ceremony was described as understated, yet classy.

Professional wrestling insiders viewed the marriage of Triple H and Stephanie as a real power union. Triple H was already influential in production meetings and creative discussions. His status as Vince McMahon‘s son-in-law would make his role even more significant. Although most acquaintances believed it was a marriage based on love and commitment, the political dimensions were undeniable as Triple H was poised to remain a WWE powerbroker long after his days as an active wrestler are over.

Triple H and Stephanie McMahon had become well-acquainted during the storyline leading to the formation of the McMahon-Helmsley Era in 1999. That angle brought Triple H and Stephanie closer together, and their relationship had been blossoming ever since.

Among those in attendance at the wedding were Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, Shawn Michaels, Kevin Nash, Undertaker, Kurt Angle, William Regal, Fabulous Moolah, Mae Young, Mick Foley, Sgt Slaughter, Arnold Skaaland and Killer Kowalski.

Nearly 100 onlookers gather near the church to see all the professional wrestling celebrities. State troopers and other police officers ensured the crowd remained at a safe distance and didn’t get out of control.

During a highly candid interview on The Howard Stern Show in 2002, Stephanie disclosed intimate details of her sex life with Triple H. More specifically, she revealed that she would love to try anal sex.

“I love anal, can’t get enough,” Stephanie joked in response to a caller’s accusation that Triple H loves anal sex. “I’m open to trying anything. Triple H would like it, too. I probably will at some point. Triple H is actually the first Paul I’ve ever dated. It was unsuccessful the first time I did bondage, I didn’t like it. Maybe some other time.”

The caller then asked Stern, “Howard, what’s the chance she’d give me anal if I came down?” Stephanie responded, “I’d have to give him anal with the strap-on I used on [“Stone Cold” Steve Austin].”

The couple reside in Weston, Connecticut, near WWE’s headquarters in Stamford.

Triple H Went To Undertaker For Advice

After an on-screen relationship between characters (and a kidnapping that led to a wedding) turned into a real-deal romance for Triple H and Stephanie McMahon, “The King of Kings” actually sought advice from Undertaker about revealing the relationship to the locker room.

“I had gone to Taker at one point because Taker for me was always kind of the constant in the locker room and I really respected his opinion,” Triple H said in WWE’s book on the Attitude Era. “I asked Taker, ‘Dude, can I talk to you about something personal?’ We had a really good relationship at that point. We talked about it, and this was at the point in time when nobody knew but everybody kind of knew. I said, ‘Clearly, you’ve seen this thing with me and Steph.’ He responded, ‘You would have to be an idiot not to.’ And I’m like, ‘I just need advice on this.’ Taker said, ‘Well, you got to understand what you’re playing with. It’s a little bit of fire if it doesn’t go well and it’s not an amicable split. Then where are you? Are you willing to make that gamble?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, there are perception issues: the perception of me and my career, the perception of Steph and her career and the company as a whole, and Vince [McMahon] and his perception and how it affects him and the business and all that.’

“Taker thought about it for a long time, but at the end of it he said, ‘You know what? Fuck it. Fuck all of them. It’s nobody’s business but yours and hers. You know who you are: you know what you do: you know you work with everybody. The day everybody finds out about this, you will become the piece of shit that only got to where he got because he was banging the boss’s daughter. And there will always be an asterisk next to your career and everything you do going forward and that it was all given to you for no reason. But you know who you are and how hard you work.’

“He laid all that stuff out to me and then concluded, ‘You have nothing to prove to anybody — to me, to Vince, to anybody — about your passion and all the other things for the business. Go for it.’ So that was a big thing.”