X-Men Bryan Singer Hit with Another Sexual Assault Allegation by London Teenager
Singer, 48, and Broadway producer Gary Goddard, 59, were named in the suit filed Saturday in Los Angeles Federal Court on behalf of a British national. The suit claims Goddard sexually abused a teenager he met online, and introduced the victim to Singer at an afterparty for the London premiere of 'Superman Returns' in 2006.
“X-Men” director Bryan Singer has been hit with another lawsuit charging he sexually assaulted a teenage boy in London.
Singer, 48, and Broadway producer Gary Goddard, 59, were named in the suit, filed Saturday in Los Angeles Federal Court on behalf of an unnamed British national, the Daily Beast reported Sunday.
The man’s suit says he was 14 when Goddard contacted him via social media and promised to introduce him to people who could help his acting career.
The suit claims the boy’s relationship with Goddard jumped from online webcam sex to real sex when he turned 15 or 16.
Goddard — who has produced Broadway productions of “Hair”, “Jekyll & Hyde” and “Jesus Christ Superstar” — plied the teen with alcohol and “engaged him in anal intercourse,” the suit contends.
Goddard introduced the teen to Singer at an afterparty for the London premiere of “Superman Returns” in 2006.
The teen — referred to in the suit as “John Doe No. 117” — claims he turned down a Quaalude Singer offered him before the filmmaker and Goddard ganged up on him.
Singer and Goddard started “grabbing John Doe in a sexual manner” in a hotel suit, the suit charges.
When the teen resisted, Goddard got a “large, musclebound man” to smack him around until he complied, according to the suit.
When Singer removed his boxer shorts, the teen told him, “I do not want to do that,” according to the complaint. But Singer ordered the teen to sit on top of him and masturbate then attempted to anally penetrate him, according to the suit.
The teen claims he “only recently became cognizant that he has suffered psychological and emotional injuries, mental anguish and loss of enjoyment of life as a result of defendants’ sexual acts,” the suit reads.
Both Singer — whose latest movie “X-Men: Day of Future Past” is scheduled to be released May 23 — and Goddard denied the charges.
Singer’s lawyer, Marty Singer, called the allegations “totally untrue.”
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Michael Egan III during a press conference on April 17 after the filing a federal lawsuit accusing Hollywood director Bryan Singer of preying on Egan when he was a teen.
Goddard’s attorney, Alan Grodin, released a statement Sunday blasting the charges and vowing that the Broadway big shot will “vigorously defend” himself.
In April, Jeff Herman, the lawyer for the British accuser, filed suit in Hawaii alleging that Michael Egan III, 31, of Nevada, was sexually abused by Singer when he was 15 in the 1990s.
Herman followed up the suit a few days later with another one in which Egan claimed he was sexually assaulted by Goddard, former Disney executive David Alexander Neuman, and former WB Television Network Chairman Garth Ancier.
Herman has scheduled a press conference on Monday to address the new complaint.
“Mr. Herman’s desperation has led him to fabricate these new anonymous accusations against Mr. Singer, which we will also prove to be completely false,” Marty Singer said Sunday.
Grodin added, “It is a shame that the specious claim made by Herman in the Egan case has resulted in this new claim that we note is over 10 years old.”
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