San Francisco tech CEO accused of forcing former assistant to sign degrading “slave contract” hangs out with disgraced actor Kevin Spacey at same World Economic Forum meeting, victim claims He claims he abused her.
Tradeshift co-founder Christian Lang, 45, chats with Spacey, 64, at the NGO's glitzy annual summit in Davos, Switzerland, in late January 2016. A photo shared on Tradeshift Facebook showed.
The caption read: “Tech fan Kevin Spacey and Tradeshift founder Christian Lang at Tradeshift Sanctuary in Davos.”
According to the bombshell lawsuit filed Thursday, the encounter also took place at the same gathering, and Ms. Lunn's accuser, identified only as Jane Doe, said the tech guru assaulted her in public. claims.
Mr. Lanng was fired from the San Francisco-based cloud network in October for the following reasons: At the time, the company said it was evidence of “serious misconduct for multiple reasons.”
According to the complaint, Ms. Lan forced her assistant to sign a degrading “slave contract” and subjected her to years of “unwanted sexual terror,” resulting in her being “bedridden for almost two years.” He is said to have fallen into an unstable mental state.
The whistleblower claims the woman was fired in 2020 when she reported the abuse to human resources.
However, a representative for Tradeshift told the Post this week that the network “denies the allegations insofar as they are directed against the company” and declined to comment further on Lan's alleged actions. .
But Lunn said the plaintiff's claims were “defamatory.”
“The shocking and despicable allegations in the lawsuit are completely false and do not refute any allegation that I inflicted any form of abuse on anyone during my tenure as CEO or at any other time in my life,” he told the paper. I refuse.''
“In what world would a slave contract be a remote agreement? Mr. Lang really argues that because slave contracts have existed for a long time, it is okay to continue with them for the duration of employment. “Yes? Our client categorically denies the idea that he had a 'consensual' slave relationship with his boss,” the accuser's attorney retorted.
Ran and Spacey's photoshoot also took place exactly one year before the Emmy winner was dropped from her critically acclaimed role on Netflix's House of Cards following allegations of sexual misconduct.
The actor, who has repeatedly denied a series of accusations, was acquitted of all charges in July in a London case relating to alleged sex crimes that took place between 2001 and 2004.
