Daily Mail – by Lydia WarrenThe former child model who’s accused X-Men director Bryan Singer of sexually assaulting him as a teenager has now revealed shocking allegations against three more Hollywood power players.
Days after filing suit against Singer, 31-year-old Michael Egan has filed additional suits against former BBC Worldwide America president Garth Ancier, former Disney TV president David Neuman and theme park design firm head Gary Goddard.
Details emerged earlier on Tuesday of a incident in which a teenaged Egan was allegedly drugged and raped by a businessman after a Siegfried and Roy show.
Plot thickens: Last week, former teen model Michael Egan (at center consoling his mother Bonnie) filed a lawsuit against director Bryan Singer, accusing him of drugging and raping him in California and Hawaii in the late 1990s.
Hollywood heavyweights: Egan has now accused former Disney TV president David Neuman (left) and former BBC Worldwide America president Garth Ancier (right) of sexually abusing him when he was a teen model.
Also accused: Egan says LA design firm head Gary Goddard, who’s also produced off-Broadway shows, sexually assaulted him
Egan appeared at a news conference Monday alongside his mother and sex abuse attorney Jeff Herman at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.
‘It’s not about money, it’s about disarming these pedophiles,’ Bonnie Mound, Egan’s weeping mother, told reporters.
Herman, who not long ago represented the accusers of Elmo puppeteer and alleged abuser Kevin Clash, compared Egan’s suit to the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
In 1998, the now-convicted serial abuser was investigated on abuse charges which were subsequently dropped due to lack of evidence.
Mound tearfully described her efforts to report alleged abuses to the FBI in 1999 and 2000.
The weeping mother said she wrote several letters to FBI agents in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., urging them to take action. She questioned why those letters and information her son provided in interviews with an agent did not result in criminal charges.
The FBI has said it could not discuss specifically what Egan told them, however, the agency denied last week that it had ignored any information about Singer.
‘The suggestion that the FBI ignored a minor victim, or evidence involving the sexual victimization of a child, is ludicrous,’ FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said in a statement. She reiterated the statement after Egan’s news conference Monday.
Mound denied her son’s lawsuits were motivated by anything other than holding the defendants accountable.
‘Do you have any teenagers,’ Bonnie Mound snapped at a reporter who asked why her son didn’t confide in her about the abuse as a teen. ‘Do they tell you when these pedophiles have knives at their throats? Put them underwater until they about drowned? Then tell me, would your teenager tell you?’
Herman alleges these men and many others like them are part of a huge Hollywood sex abuse ring that victims have been afraid to out for years.
‘Hollywood adults are armed with something other adults aren’t armed with,’ said Herman. ‘It’s a tremendous amount of power…the power and influence to really make kids careers.’
But the attorney says the case will empower more victims like his client to out the sick underground culture.
SINGER’S ATTORNEY FIRES BACK WITH CLAIMS THAT EGAN’S ATTORNEY IS A HACK AND REITERATES HIS CLIENT’S 100% INNOCENCE
Denial: A lawyer for Bryan Singer, pictured, said claims against him are absurd and defamatory and that he plans to counter sue the former child model
Singer’s attorney Marty Singer spoke to MailOnline on Monday to reiterate that Michael Egan’s lawyer Jeff Herman had not even served his client Bryan Singer with the suit yet – five days after it was first publicized.
He said there were five points he wanted to make which he says will show Egan’s claims are without merit:
- Singer was NEVER in Hawaii between the dates that Egan claims he assaulted him, from August 1 – August 31, 1999. He again says they have phone bills and receipts, as well as production schedules to show this. At this time, Singer was in Toronto working on pre-production for his first X-Men movie.
- Egan filed his original lawsuit nine months after the time of his alleged assault, but he never mentioned Singer.
- He filed a report to the FBI, but again, the report never mentioned Singer.
- Singer has yet to be served by Egan and his lawyer.
- Jeff Herman was suspended from practicing law for 18 months in 2009 for failing to disclose a conflict of interest, acquiring a financial interest adverse to a client, and for violating the Rules of Professional Conduct by engaging in misconduct involving fraud, deceit and misrepresentation. Initially, the referee who reviewed the disciplinary complaint against Herman recommended that Herman be suspended for 90 days and placed on probation for two years. That recommendation was appealed to the Supreme Court of Florida. The Supreme Court increased the suspension from 90 days to 18 months.
Mr Singer told MailOnline: ‘We will easily prove this and then we will go after this lawyer for this fabricated claim, we have indisputable proof.
‘A legitimate lawyer would have served us, instead he announced it with a press release and then a press conference. As of today, we’ve been waiting for five days, he could have sent it to my email.’
He added that Singer was ‘upset’, adding: ‘Someone is trying to ruin his life and his career, that someone would just fabricate these claims is insanity.’
When asked about the openly gay director and producer’s notorious pool parties, Mr Singer stressed: ‘Michael Egan is not saying he was ever at one of Bryan’s parties, but when Bryan has a pool party, everyone is checked for IDs, nobody is allowed in under the age of 18 , and even between 18 and 21, they have to wear wristbands. There is also security there.’
‘[It’s] a watershed moment for Hollywood,’ Herman said. ‘I have heard from dozens of victims who allege they’ve been abused by dozens of people in Hollywood.’
Herman said at Monday’s press conference that he’s already got witnesses to the mens crimes waiting in the wings as the case gains steam.
‘I’m hearing from many many many witnesses who are willing to corroborate different parts of this case,’ he said.
As Monday’s chillingly emotional press conference neared a close, one reporter asked Egan what he had to say to his alleged abusers now that he has such a highly visible national platform.
‘You won’t have another chance to hurt another child,’ he said as his mother again became overcome with emotion. ‘And for the people who have been abused…please come forward.’
‘Do you have any teenagers,’ Bonnie Mound snapped at a reporter who asked why her son didn’t confide in her as a teen. ‘Do they tell you when these pedophiles have knives at their throats? Put them underwater until they about drowned? Then tell me, would your teenager tell you?’
THREE NEW ACCUSED SEXUAL PREDATORS: WHO ARE GARTH ANCIER, GARY GODDARD AND DAVID NEUMAN
Their accusers: Egan’s attorney, a sex abuse lawyer from Florida, Jeff Herman (left) says the three men Egan has accused in the new suits are all part of a vast Hollywood ‘sex ring’
Michael Egan III sued Garth Ancier on Monday in Hawaii, accusing Ancier of abuse in 1999 when Egan was 17.
Ancier was a founding president of Fox entertainment at the age of just 28 in 1986 and went on to head up the entertainment divisions at the WB and NBC networks as well as BBC America Worldwide.
A call made to Ancier was not immediately returned.
Egan also sued two others in separate lawsuits Monday, claiming they also abused him on trips to Hawaii.
One of the accused, Gary Goddard, is the head of an LA design firm The Goddard Group and has produced stage shows both on and off Broadway.
A lawyer for Goddard told MailOnline in an emailed statement:
‘Gary is out of the country until later this week. We are obtaining a copy of the complaint so that we can respond in a proper manner to what appear to be allegations that are without merit. Once we have seen the complaint we will respond as appropriate.’
The third accused man is former Disney TV head David Neuman, who the suit alleges hosted the sex parties in Encino where much of the assaults are alleged to have taken place.
Neuman responded to the charges in a series of tweets Monday night, calling them ‘completely false’ and ‘shocking.’
‘We’ve alleged that there’s a Hollywood sex ring, one of several sex rings,’ that these men were a part of, said Herman.
However, no criminal charges have been filed against any of the men sued by Egan.
Egan, now 31, said last week that he was abused by Singer and others starting when he was 15, and given drugs and promises of a Hollywood career.
Details of the abuse allegedly suffered by Michael Egan emerged in an affidavit from 2003, which alleges the horrifying sexual abuse four teenage boys endured at the hands of two internet businessmen, Marc Collins-Rector and Chad Shackley.
A source told TMZ that one of these victims, ‘Minor #4’, is Egan. It has previously been alleged that Rector, who was later convicted of child sex abuses, and Shackley introduced him to Singer.
Sources told TMZ that Egan never complained about Singer at the time of the affidavit, and Singer is not named in the records.
The documents allege that ‘Minor 4’ first met the couple at a graduation party held at their home after he finished the ninth grade in 1998. Rector took him on a private tour of the house and asked him if he was gay, and he responded that he was not.
Rector told him that ’90 per cent of show business was gay and that you needed to sleep with people if you wanted to go anywhere,’ Minor 4 told the agent.
Rector also allegedly warned, ‘We stay together, but you do not want to see my dark side,’ before displaying a gun and keeping it visible while talking to the teenager about his ‘group’.
Rector said he was one of the 25 most powerful people in Hollywood and it would be a mistake to make the group angry, Minor 4 told the FBI agent.
Convicted: An affidavit from 2003 has revealed claims reportedly made by a teenage Egan, right, against internet businessman Marc Collins-Rector, left. Rector was later convicted of child sex charges
‘You are part of the group now,’ he allegedly told the teenager. ‘There is no turning back’
Afterwards, Minor 4 began working for the couple, who ran a handful of computer businesses, believing that it would help him secure further work.
But as he traveled with them across the country, they allegedly repeatedly sexually assaulted them.
On one occasion, Minor 4 said he was taken to a Siegfried and Roy show in Vegas, but given a drink with drugs in. When he awoke he felt a pain and realized he had been raped by Shackley, he said.
Minor 4 eventually quit the job in May 2000, two years after meeting the men.
Collins-Rector was charged with 21 counts of sexual assault, and served time abroad as well as registering as a sex offender. His last-known country of residence was the Dominican Republic.
Three other minors also tell shocking stories in the affidavit, claiming that they were given thousands of dollars worth of gifts by day, before being sexually assaulted by night.
Scene: He said that at a Siegfried and Roy show, pictured, he was drugged and raped by Rector’s partner
Rector allegedly told one of the teenagers that if he refused to have sex he’d be sent back to his ‘hick town’, while he also allegedly told Minor 4 that if he did not go on trips, he would lose his job.
The allegations have resurfaced as Egan filed a lawsuit claiming he was sexually abused by Bryan Singer, the X-Men director, when he was a teenager.
He claims in the suit that Singer abused him several times from August to October 1999 as well as earlier in California as part of a Hollywood sex ring led by Collins-Rector.
He said he was given drugs and promises of a Hollywood career while being threatened and sexually abused in Los Angeles and Hawaii.
MailOnline does not typically name victims of sex abuse but is naming Egan because he is speaking publicly about his allegations.
But Singer’s lawyer has said that credit card receipts, telephone records and production schedules show that he was not in Hawaii when a lawsuit claims he sexually abused Egan.
Singer was mainly in Toronto working on the first X-Men movie from August through October 1999, defense attorney Marty Singer told The Associated Press.
‘This was Bryan’s first studio film,’ Marty Singer said. ‘Clearly, he’s not going to take a break in the middle of this movie while you’re shooting and prepping it to go to Hawaii.’
Egan’s lawyer, Jeff Herman, did not respond to phone calls seeking comment.
Behind walls: Egan said that he was assaulted at the couple’s home in Encino, California, pictured
Marty Singer said the filming records were available publicly but 20th Century Fox did not immediately return a phone call and email seeking comment.
X-Men was released in July 2000. Singer has directed three films in the blockbuster franchise, including the fifth installment, X-Men: Days of Future Past, to be released next month, as well as other films including The Usual Suspects.
His lawyer said the director was never interviewed by any authorities about the claims by Egan, who has said that he reported the Los Angeles acts and doesn’t know why charges were not pursued.
The lawsuit was filed under a Hawaii law that temporarily suspends the statute of limitations in sex abuse cases. The law has led to several lawsuits against clergy members and others.
A judge in Hawaii set a July 21 scheduling hearing in Honolulu for the lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday.
Read Egan’s lawsuit against Singer here…
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there you have it, Moms… and it’s not just the freaks in Hollywood.
Just about everyone in politics today is a pedophile, or they wouldn’t have been allowed to get where they are.
And these baby-raping perverts are the same people who want to take everyone’s guns away “to protect the children”, when they’re not raping children at gunpoint, of course.
Jolly, EXACTLY. I soul not of said it better myself!!!
This is at the rotten core of the Satanic New World Order.