I think report is the wrong word here, I think it's more about expressing concern about something rather than 'report'. You don't need to mistreat someone for

I think report is the wrong word here, I think it's more about expressing concern about something rather than 'report'. You don't need to mistreat someone for them to feel uncomfortable if you've published a book mistreating people before. The precedent is enough - since obviously, anyone who has read the book will be thinking "that's what he's thinking about me right now". I think Martinez made a mistake, he thought he could be Brett Easton Ellis and then go and work in a large corporation. The truth is that even if he doesn't identify with the character he portrayed in the book (which he probably does but not to the extent his accusers think) it doesn't matter - because he literally wrote a book about how identifies as that person, and at that point the trust he broke "as character" has genuinely been broken in the eyes of his future colleagues.