SF tech exec forced assistant to sign sex ‘slave contract,’ lawsuit alleges

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A San Francisco technology company’s former CEO, Christian Lanng, was slapped with a bombshell lawsuit accusing him of sadomasochistic-style rapes and torture.

Lanng’s accuser is identified in court documents as “Jane Doe.” She claims Lanng hired her as his executive assistant at Tradeshift, manipulated her into signing a sex “slave contract,” and sent her life down into a “dark abyss” of “sexual horrors.”

The lawsuit states, “This is a case about Christian Lanng, who was the powerful CEO of a billion-dollar market cap ‘unicorn’ Tradeshift, a cloud-based supply-chain software tech company—entering into a slave contract with a female employee, Jane Doe.”

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court, accuses Lanng, Tradeshift, and other Tradeshift executives of sex trafficking, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and sexual assault.