Billy Wolfe was a professional wrestling promoter who was active from the 1930s to the 1950s. Professional wrestling is generally any form of performance art in which pro-wrestlers receive payment for participating. ...

Wolfe was the husband and manager of Mildred Burke, and ran a travelling troupe of women wrestlers alongside her. Mildred Bliss was an American professional wrestler, who wrestled under the name Mildred Burke. ...

Negative stories about Wolfe by the women who wrestled for him are legion. In her autobiography Lillian Ellison (aka The Fabulous Moolah) recalls his extreme chauvinism (he turned to managing women wrestlers only after failing as a wrestler and as a manager of male wrestlers), his financial misdealings and routine sexual harassment of his "girls" before, during and after his marriage to Mildred Burke. Due to his managerial contract with her he was able to leave Burke penniless when she divorced him, taking all of their marital assets and leaving her with nothing to show for decades of hundreds of wrestling matches per year. The Fabulous Moolah, or Lillian Ellison, is a former female professional wrestler who is marketed by World Wrestling Entertainment for holding the record for the longest title reign of any athlete in any professional sport. ... Sexual harassment is harassment or unwelcome attention of a sexual nature. ...

The horror stories of Wolfe led to the success of the far more ethical manager Jack Pfeffer and of Moolah herself. In her autobiography Moolah ultimately felt great sorrow for Wolfe because of the number of personal tragedies he suffered later in life (especially the death of his daughter Janet, also a professional wrestler).