BRYAN SINGER, the director of the forthcoming film “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” is being accused of sexually abusing a male teenager in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Hawaii, The Wrap and Variety are reporting.
Michael Egan was named as the plaintiff in a news release from Egan’s attorneys. The lawsuit alleges, among other things, that Singer forcibly sodomized Egan in 1999, when Egan was 17. In the civil case, the suit also alleges that Singer flew Egan to Hawaii and gave him drugs and alcohol, according to court documents the Wrap says it obtained.
Marc Collins-Rector, former chairman of Digital Entertainment Network, is reportedly also named in the lawsuit. Collins-Rector is a registered sex offender since a 2004 guilty plea for crimes involving minors, Variety reports.
Jeff Herman, a lawyer for Egan, is the same attorney who represented plaintiffs in the sex-abuse litigation against former “Sesame Street” Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash.
Neither Singer nor his representatives have yet commented on the allegations.
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