The co-founder of a San Francisco tech company is accused of forcing his former assistant to sign a botched “slave contract” – leaving her with years of “unwanted sexual horror”.
Tradeshift co-founder Christian Lanng allegedly forced his former employee to sign a contract just months after hiring him as his executive assistant, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.
The woman, identified in court documents only as Jane Doe, claims Lanng then raped and abused her for years. The software company is also named in the suit.
Lanng’s torture involved “causing her physical pain in various ways, urinating on her and routinely penetrating her person with foreign objects,” according to the lawsuit, which was first reported by the Mercury News.
The shocking allegations came to light after the disgraced executive was sacked as CEO earlier this year for “gross misconduct on multiple grounds” after management became aware of “serious allegations of sexual assault and harassment” against him.
Accusers also claim she was fired in 2020 when she complained to human resources about a nine-page “slave contract,” which she claims she was forced to sign.
Doe has agreed to “always be sexually available to her master when she needs sex and never refuse her sex even if she is not wearing [day] collar,” according to a copy of the contract that was supposed to be filed with the lawsuit.
Sacked Tradeshift CEO Christian Lanng is accused of abusing his former assistant after forcing her to sign a sexual slavery contract. TradeShift
“Whenever he sees his master in person for the first time, he should kneel down and ask if there is anything he can do for him,” the contract said.
The document also allegedly authorized Lanng to deliver “any punishment the master decides to inflict, whether earned or not” — although it noted that it was “the master’s responsibility” to avoid killing the woman or causing permanent injury.
The contract also allegedly stated that the “slave” must always accept his punishment “without being angry, sullen or upset with his master” and that he must “give thanks afterwards.”
The former assistant was also supposed to keep a “diary” of her “subjugation and servitude to him,” and had agreed to be beaten “with a cane if she did not write submissive entries,” according to the lawsuit.
Lanng allegedly “beat her until she bled” and hit her with a “dead object,” the woman alleged.
The accuser was also contractually required to dress in a “proper, feminine manner” and maintain her weight between 130 and 155 pounds while agreeing to send Lanng weekly spreadsheets of her progress, the suit alleges.
“The servant agrees to be completely subservient to his master in all matters. There are no boundaries of place, time, or situation where a slave can willfully refuse to obey the master’s orders without risking punishment,” the contract reads, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit alleges Lanng raped and abused the unidentified assistant for years. Facebook / Christian Lang
“The slave also agrees that, once sealed in the Slavery Contract, their body belongs to their master to be used as he sees fit within the guidelines defined here. All the slave’s property is also his master’s, including all assets, finances, online accounts and material goods, to be done with as they see fit.”
The lawsuit said the former assistant had agreed to the disruptive settlement because she “loved her job, was performing important duties in her new role and did not want to lose the opportunity to work for Tradeshift.”
A representative from Tradeshift, which is also named in the lawsuit, told The Post that it “denies the allegations in the lawsuit to the extent they are made against the company,” but declined to comment further, referring back to a statement issued in October announcing Lanng’s firing.
Lanng vehemently denied the allegations in a statement to The Post, saying the couple had a “consensual” sexual relationship.
Lanng was fired as CEO earlier this year for “gross misconduct on multiple grounds” after sexual assault and harassment claims were made against him. Facebook termination letter / Christian Lanng Lanng from Tradeshift. California Superior Court
“The claims in this lawsuit are slanderous and do not reflect my past relationship with the plaintiff. The shocking and outrageous allegations in the lawsuit are false, and I reject the allegations that I have caused anyone to suffer any form of abuse during my tenure as CEO or at any other time in my life,” he said.
“The only details of the obscenity complaint against me that are true are that the plaintiff and I had a sexual relationship and that he used to work at Tradeshift. This relationship, which preceded his employment at Tradeshift, ended eight months after he joined the company.
“In 2014, I made a big mistake in deciding to hire someone I had met and with whom I was involved in a consensual sexual relationship. While this is not a violation of Tradeshift’s human resources policy, it is irresponsible to employ someone with whom I am romantically involved. I regret the decision. It was a stupid mistake that I will not repeat.”
Lang added that his former assistant continued to work with Tradeshift for another five years after their relationship ended and promoted “outside of my jurisdiction.”
His position was subsequently terminated “during one of several rounds of layoffs Tradeshift has unfortunately had to undergo,” the former CEO said.
Complaints, formal or otherwise, were never made by this person, neither to the Tradeshift board nor the company’s HR department, Lanng said.
In October, the ousted CEO also told TechCruch that “there has never been an HR case, complaint or formal allegation filed” against him at the company.
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