Bryan Singer accuser says he was raped by the director in late 1990s
- 10 years ago
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STORY: A man has accused film director Bryan Singer of drugging and raping him when he was a teenager during the late 1990s. The accusation comes just weeks before the release of Singer's blockbuster "X-Men" action film, "X-Men: Days of Future Past." The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in U.S. Court in Hawaii, alleges that Singer, 48, used his influence as a Hollywood insider as well as a range of drugs and alcohol to force anal and oral sex on then teenager, Michael Egan, while promising him roles in his films. Egan is seeking unspecified damages and a jury trial after claiming to have suffered wide-ranging abuses at California and Hawaii house parties beginning in the late 1990s, according to the civil action filed by his lawyer. "I was raped numerous times in that house by numerous individuals, various types of sexual abuse all throughout that house. You were like a piece of meat to these people and they would pass you around between them, it was... if I
STORY: A man has accused film director Bryan Singer of drugging and raping him when he was a teenager during the late 1990s. The accusation comes just weeks before the release of Singer's blockbuster "X-Men" action film, "X-Men: Days of Future Past." The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in U.S. Court in Hawaii, alleges that Singer, 48, used his influence as a Hollywood insider as well as a range of drugs and alcohol to force anal and oral sex on then teenager, Michael Egan, while promising him roles in his films. Egan is seeking unspecified damages and a jury trial after claiming to have suffered wide-ranging abuses at California and Hawaii house parties beginning in the late 1990s, according to the civil action filed by his lawyer. "I was raped numerous times in that house by numerous individuals, various types of sexual abuse all throughout that house. You were like a piece of meat to these people and they would pass you around between them, it was... if I