Ani Easton Baker, his most recent girlfriend, has also come forward
And their claims have been backed up by friends/coworkers who've gone on the record as having seen instances of abuse
Landis' history had been an open secret for a while, as evidenced by this detailed early-2018 article from Daily Beast https://www.thedailybeast.com/bright-screenwriter-max-landis-accused-of-sexual-assault
Earlier this week, Jake Weisman, creator of the upcoming Comedy Central series Corporate, composed a tweet that appeared to be directed at Landis: "Definitely watch that big Netflix movie coming out, written by that fucking psychopath who is one of the worst people alive." Mike Drucker, a writer for The President Show, replied to it with: "Jake, I have exactly entirely 100% no idea of whom you're talking about but I just hope he doesn't have a powerful father in Hollywood who's covered up for the fucked up shit he's done."
Former BBC host and sketch-comedy writer Siobhan Thompson then responded to Drucker's tweet, writing: "I don't know who you mean but if that's true I bet I have SEVERAL friends who have been sexually assaulted by him."
Earlier this year a (since-deleted) anonymous Medium post from an accuser went more in-depth https://news.avclub.com/one-of-max-landis-sexual-assault-accusers-comes-forward-1832607378
This is per an anonymous Medium post that appeared online earlier this week, written by someone calling themselves "The Colour Society Reject." In the post, the woman in question lays out a trip she took with Landis—once a friend—to a California tourist destination several years ago. While there, Landis forcefully attempted to initiate sex with her while she was intoxicated, despite the fact that she repeatedly told him, "This is a really bad idea. Stop. Please, no, this is a really bad idea. No, stop." Eventually, she "went limp and pretended to pass out," at which point Landis "got off of me and rolled over, and then he fell asleep spooning me."
The author of the post says that she and Landis remained friends for some time after the incident. She also offers up screenshots of Facebook conversations between the two of them in which they discussed the incident, and in which Landis downplays her obvious distress, says he believed they were only "wrestling" at the time, and describes the incident as "making half a move." "I got my signals really crossed," he concludes, having apparently misconstrued "Stop. Please, no."
The author says that she was initially in conversation with The Hollywood Reporter about publishing a piece on her allegations against Landis, which the publication vetted extensively. However, the story was eventually killed because she was unwilling to come forward and reveal her name. "One thing I realized by getting involved in a public #MeToo story," she writes, "Is that the most horrifying accounts rarely surface because the extreme trauma makes it incredibly difficult to speak, amplified many times over when the perpetrator is famous. I can only imagine how many stories like ours have been shelved. "
While films he's since done work on (Shadow in the Cloud) have thankfully undergone enough rewriting he wound up being successfully distanced from the project, he still has managed to not be completely rejected yet from the business. Currently he is employed as a consultant for WWE Raw
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