The San Francisco tech CEO accused of forcing his former assistant to sign a humiliating “slave contract” alongside disgraced actor Kevin Spacey at the same World Economic Forum meeting where the victim claims he abused her.
Tradeshift co-founder Christian Lanng, 45, courted Spacey, 64, at the NGO’s annual summit in Davos, Switzerland in late January 2016, a photo shared on Tradeshift’s Facebook showed.
“Tech enthusiast Kevin Spacey with Tradeshift founder Christian Lanng at the Tradeshift Sanctuary in Davos,” the caption read.
The encounter also took place at the same gathering where Lanng’s accuser — known only as Jane Doe — said the tech expert assaulted her in public, according to the lawsuit filed Thursday.
Lanng was fired from the San Francisco-based cloud network in October for what the company described at the time as evidence of “gross misconduct on multiple grounds.”
Christian Lang (right) and Kevin Spacey pose together at the World Economic Forum in 2016. Facebook / Tradeshift
Lanng allegedly forced his assistant to sign a depraved “slave contract” and subjected her to years of “unwanted sexual horror” that left her “bedridden and in an unstable psychological state for nearly two years,” the lawsuit alleges.
The woman claims she was fired in 2020 when she reported the abuse to HR, the accuser claims.
A representative for Tradeshift, however, told The Post this week that the network “denies the allegations in the lawsuit to the extent they are made against the company” — and declined to comment further on Lanng’s alleged behavior.
Lanng is accused of keeping his assistants as “sex slaves” in a new lawsuit. California Superior Court
Lanng, however, said the plaintiff’s claims were “defamatory.”
“The shocking and outrageous claims in the lawsuit are false, and I reject the allegations that I have caused anyone to suffer any form of abuse during my time as CEO or at any other time in my life,” he told The Post.
“In what world is a consensual slave contract? Is Lanng really arguing that since slave contracts existed before, it’s okay to continue them while working? Our client completely rejects the notion that he had a ‘consensual’ slave relationship with his boss,” replied a representative of the prosecution.
Lanng has denied that the relationship between him and the accuser was abusive. TradeShift
Lang’s photo-op with Spacey also came just a year before the Emmy winner was ousted from her critically acclaimed role on Netflix’s “House of Cards” following allegations of sexual misconduct.
The actor – who has repeatedly denied the stream of accusations against him – was acquitted of all charges in the London case relating to alleged sexual offenses that took place between 2001 and 2004 in July.
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