Filmmaker and screenwriter Max Landis has been accused by eight different women of abuse, ranging from emotional abuse to sexual assault and rape.
According to The Daily Beast, the women - who are former partners or collaborators of Landis' - detailed a pattern of grooming, assault and intimidation over the course of multiple years.
The women allege a pattern of behavior in which Landis uses his money and status to lure women into his elite social circle, before manipulating or harassing them into relationships and then allegedly abusing and, in at least one case, raping them.
One woman described his friend group as a "cult" and said Landis "systematically [tried] to have sex with all the women I knew."
One of the women - Landis' ex Ani Baker - was prompted to speak out after Landis was accused of sexual abuse in February, when an anonymous woman wrote a Medium post alleging that Landis pinned her down while she was drunk during a trip and only stopped when she "went limp and pretended to pass out".
