Disgraced tech CEO who allegedly kept assistant as ‘sex slave’ palled around with Kevin Spacey at glitzy summit
The San Francisco tech CEO accused of forcing his former assistant to sign a degrading “slave contract” palled around with disgraced actor Kevin Spacey at the same World Economic Forum meeting where the victim claims he abused her.
Tradeshift co-founder Christian Lanng, 45, hobnobbed with Spacey, 64, at the NGO’s glitzy annual summit in Davos, Switzerland in late January 2016, a photo shared on the Tradeshift Facebook showed.
“Tech fan 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 – identified only as Jane Doe – says the tech whiz assaulted her in public, according to a bombshell 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.”
Lanng supposedly forced his assistant to sign a depraved “slave contract” and subjected her to years of “unwanted sexual horror” that left her “bedridden and in a precarious psychological state for almost two years,” the lawsuit alleged.
The woman claims she was fired in 2020 when she reported the abuses to HR, the accuser claimed.
A representative for Tradeshift, however, told The Post this week that the network “denies the allegations in the claim insofar as they are made against the company” – and declined to comment further on Lanng’s purported behavior.
Lanng, however, said the plaintiff’s claims were “defamatory.”
“The shocking and vile claims in the lawsuit are categorically false, and I reject allegations that I subjected someone to any form of abuse during my tenure as CEO or at any other time of my life,” he insisted to The Post.
“In what world is a slave contract remotely consensual? Is Lanng really arguing that since the slave contract existed before that it was okay to continue it during employment? Our client entirely rejects the notion that she had a ‘consensual’ slave relationship with her boss,” a representative for the accuser shot back.
Lanng’s photo-op with Spacey also came just one year before the Emmy winner was axed from his 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 a London case related to alleged sexual offenses that took place between 2001 and 2004 in July.
