"Ex-CEO Accused of 'Sex Slave' Allegations Claims Celebrity Lawyer Attempted $10M Shakedown"

Former tech CEO Christian Lanng, accused of keeping his assistant as a "sex slave," claims that a celebrity lawyer attempted to extort $10 million from him for a "quick payday." Lanng alleges that the lawyer threatened to publicize the allegations on TMZ and created fake social media accounts to intimidate him. Lanng maintains that his relationship with the assistant was consensual and that the "slave contract" was a sexual prop downloaded from the internet. He has filed a countersuit against the lawyer and his former assistant for extortion, defamation, breach of contract, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, seeking no less than $40 million in damages.