Gay Movie Director Drugged, Raped Teenage Boy in 1999, Lawsuit Alleges

Posted on | April 17, 2014 | 59 Comments

Bryan Singer, the openly gay film director best known for X-Men movies, has been accused of molesting a teenage male model in 1999. The lawsuit is described by the Hollywood Reporter:

Bryan Singer, director, producer and writer of more than two dozen productions including the X-Men films, was accused Wednesday in a federal lawsuit of having sexually abused a 17-year-old boy at estates in Los Angeles and Kailua . . .
According to the suit, the Los Angeles parties were held at a mansion in Encino referred to as the M & C Estate, whose residents were Marc Collins-Rector and Chad Shackley, whose younger brother Scott Shackley was in [victim Michael F.] Egan’s high school class. Collins-Rector and Chad Shackley were principals of Digital Entertainment Network, an early online streaming video company. The complaint asserts that Collins-Rector sexually abused Egan and threatened him with a gun, but does not name him as a defendant.
(Collins-Rector subsequently was charged and pled guilty to transporting minors across state lines for sex, and is a registered sex offender.)

Details from the federal lawsuit:

The parties were typically sordid and featured sexual contact between adult males and the many teenage boys who were present for the parties. Further, the parties included the distribution of drugs and alcoholic beverages to the teenage boys at the party. Upon information and belief, the nature of the parties was well-known and notorious among many men in the Hollywood entertainment industry. . . .
During the infamous and degenerate parties at the M & C Estate, the adult males engaged in sexual contacts with the Plaintiff, as well as the other boys present. Plaintiff never freely, voluntarily, and knowingly consented to these sexual interactions, and often resisted them. . . .
Approximately 2–3 months after Collins-Rector began sexually abusing Plaintiff, Defendant Singer was socializing with Collins-Rector around the estate’s swimming pool and Plaintiff was in the pool. In compliance with the “rules” imposed by Collins-Rector that people in the pool area were not allowed to wear clothes, Plaintiff was nude as was Defendant Singer. Collins-Rector ordered Plaintiff out of the pool, and Defendant Singer hugged Plaintiff and grabbed his bare buttocks. They then went to the jacuzzi where Collins-Rector had Plaintiff sit on his lap and fondled Plaintiff’s genitals. Collins-Rector then passed Plaintiff to Defendant Singer and Plaintiff was made to sit on Defendant Singer’s lap. Defendant Singer provided an alcoholic beverage to Plaintiff and mentioned finding a role for him in an upcoming movie that he was directing. Defendant Singer told Plaintiff how “this group” controls Hollywood, and that he was sexy. Defendant Singer masturbated Plaintiff and then performed oral sex upon him. Defendant Singer solicited Plaintiff to perform oral sex upon him which Plaintiff resisted. Defendant Singer flagrantly disregarded Plaintiff’s unwillingness to submit, and forced Plaintiff’s head underwater to make Plaintiff perform oral sex upon him. . . .
Defendant Singer visited the estate regularly and continued to sexually assault Plaintiff. He coerced Plaintiff to masturbate him and to acquiesce to his masturbating Plaintiff, and to each performing oral sex on the other. Defendant Singer also continued to anally rape Plaintiff. . . .
On more than one occasion, Plaintiff was flown to Hawaii when he was 17 years old. Two of these trips took place on or between August 1, 1999, and October 31, 1999, during which times his stay lasted roughly one week. Plaintiff stayed in the Paul Mitchell estate in Kailua, Hawaii, with Collins-Rector, Shackley, and others, including a number of other juvenile males. . . .
On each occasion when Plaintiff was in Hawaii, he was required to interact with Defendant Singer while at the Paul Mitchell estate. On more than one occasion, Defendant Singer provided him with drugs, including cocaine, a pill identified as “green triangle” which is believed to be a reference to the drug Ecstasy, Xanax, Rohypnol, pain pills believed to be Vicodin or Percocet, and alcoholic beverages. . . .
Defendant Singer put a handful of cocaine against Plaintiff’s nose and forced him to inhale it. Defendant Singer then provided Plaintiff with a beverage which he drank which significantly impacted his consciousness and his motor skills. Defendant Singer then entered the pool where he nonconsensually masturbated Plaintiff and performed oral sex upon him. Defendant Singer caused Plaintiff to rub his erect penis against Defendant Singer’s buttocks. He forced Plaintiff’s head underwater and made Plaintiff orally copulate him. He then caused Plaintiff to get out of the pool and lie face down on a lounge chair. To continue the sexual assault, Defendant Singer spit on Plaintiff’s buttocks, spanked him, and forced a handful of cocaine onto Plaintiff’s face. He then anally raped Plaintiff. He subsequently caused them to go to the jacuzzi where he provided another beverage to Plaintiff. Defendant Singer attempted to insert his penis into Plaintiff’s mouth which Plaintiff resisted, but he ultimately was able to force his penis into Plaintiff’s mouth. Defendant Singer then assisted Plaintiff to their room where he again anally raped Plaintiff. . . .

So, was this an action film or Bryan Singer’s idea of a romantic comedy?

For the record, the director’s attorney says none of it ever happened.

Who ever heard of a Hollywood director being into drugs and sex, right?

Remember: Corey Feldman said pedophiles are “everywhere” in Hollywood.

Category: Crime, Gays, Hollywood, Sex

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59 Responses to “Gay Movie Director Drugged, Raped Teenage Boy in 1999, Lawsuit Alleges”

Dana
April 17th, 2014 @ 2:10 pm

Our esteemed host quoted:

On more than one occasion, Plaintiff was flown to Hawaii when he was 17 years old. Two of these trips took place on or between August 1, 1999, and October 31, 1999, during which times his stay lasted roughly one week. Plaintiff stayed in the Paul Mitchell estate in Kailua, Hawaii, with Collins-Rector, Shackley, and others, including a number of other juvenile males. . . .

On each occasion when Plaintiff was in Hawaii, he was required to interact with Defendant Singer while at the Paul Mitchell estate. On more than one occasion, Defendant Singer provided him with drugs, including cocaine, a pill identified as “green triangle” which is believed to be a reference to the drug Ecstasy, Xanax, Rohypnol, pain pills believed to be Vicodin or Percocet, and alcoholic beverages. . . .

The words “contributory negligence” occur to me, at the very least. If the Plaintiff had already been forced into sex once, and didn’t like it, why would he go along on other trips?

If the Defendant had sexual contact with someone who was legally a minor, then yeah, that’s a crime. But when I see stories about lawsuits from people who (apparently) willingly accompanied someone he had said had previously raped him, my bovine feces detector starts going off, loudly. This is no longer about a crime; this is now just about money.

Did the Plaintiff state that the Respondent had held him in captivity? If not, then he accompanied the Respondent voluntarily!

My judgement is for the Plaintiff, in the amount of 69¢. If it becomes a criminal case, then that’s different.
Bozikek
April 17th, 2014 @ 2:14 pm

But was it “rape rape”? and if so is the boy a bigot?
robertstacymccain
April 17th, 2014 @ 2:15 pm

So … open season on 17-year-old booty?
Bozikek
April 17th, 2014 @ 2:16 pm

If you wanna make it in this town kid…
Bozikek
April 17th, 2014 @ 2:25 pm

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001741/board/thread/206514215

A lot of dirt flying around… it seems half the Hollywood networks are run by homosexuals.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
April 17th, 2014 @ 2:31 pm

There is always an open season on 17 year old booty in Hollyweird.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
April 17th, 2014 @ 2:31 pm

The Gay Mafia strikes again.
RS
April 17th, 2014 @ 2:33 pm

The specifics of the allegations certainly raise a lot of questions. Where were the boy’s parents? Why did he continue to go to the estate and fly to Hawaii? No one is suggesting “open season” on 17 year olds, or any age group for that matter. Rather, it sounds as though the young “victim” was attempting to use his “attributes” to advance himself. When that didn’t happen, he files a lawsuit.
M. Thompson
April 17th, 2014 @ 2:38 pm

Two thoughts:

1. There will be cries that Adult Gays don’t go after boys, again, and this is out of their “normal.”

2. The casting couch has returned with a vengance on both sides.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
April 17th, 2014 @ 2:39 pm

I am sure Randy Mandy Marcotte will be denouncing Bryan Singer shortly.
Jeanette Victoria
April 17th, 2014 @ 2:42 pm

How long before the general public gets back to what we knew in the 50’s that homoseuals should NEVER be allowed near teen boys. This is just common sense.
Jeanette Victoria
April 17th, 2014 @ 2:43 pm

Prolly explains why todays films are so bad.
Dana
April 17th, 2014 @ 2:44 pm

Nope; you’ll note that I said it would be different if this was a criminal case. But this is just a civil suit, trying to get money. I am not impressed.
Jeanette Victoria
April 17th, 2014 @ 2:45 pm

cutlass wherever there is a homosexual it is open season on teens whether in Church or the classroom
Colorado Alex
April 17th, 2014 @ 2:45 pm

Reading the article reminds me of this study

http://www.urban.org/publications/413047.html

Specifically the section marked “recruitment”.
It’s easy to say “He should have refused to go”, but predators are often very good at manipulating their victims. You have a teenaged boy who gets introduced to Hollywood, and gets just enough goodies to make him think that he has a shot. If he refuses he gets told that he’ll be blacklisted forever. Meanwhile, his family is putting pressure on him to accept these invitations since this is his big chance. I doubt he told his parents or friends what was going on. It would be humilitating and would not only impact him but his friends as well (His friend’s older brother introduced the victim to his abusers).
Basically he was thrown into a toxic environment with people who are very good at manipulation and control when he was at an age where he doesn’t know enough to defend himself and where family and social pressures would encourage him to keep quiet.
G Joubert
April 17th, 2014 @ 2:47 pm

For time immemorial it’s worked like this: People –perhaps especially young people– wanting to break into show business and become big famous rich movie stars will do _anything_ for that big break. And Hollywood is full of pervs ready to accommodate them in that.
Dana
April 17th, 2014 @ 2:52 pm

The age of consent is 18 in California, which would make the Plaintiff’s allegations rape; it is 16 in Hawaii, which makes the allegations not statutory rape, but the Plaintiff alleges that force was used, which would be rape.

In a criminal case, where the standard of proof is beyond a reasonable doubt, I would think that the Plaintiff would have a difficult time establishing that; the only witnesses were the other party participants. In a civil suit, it’s the preponderance of the evidence, which is, in the end, frequently a judgement call.
RS
April 17th, 2014 @ 2:58 pm

If, indeed, the parents were putting pressure on him to succeed in Hollywood, they’re partially to blame. There is not enough money on earth to get me to encourage my son or daughter to get involved in this. Certainly, there are any number of stories about parents pushing their kids into show business hoping to cash in themselves. It’s despicable.
Dana
April 17th, 2014 @ 3:00 pm

Alex wrote:

Meanwhile, his family is putting pressure on him to accept these
invitations since this is his big chance. I doubt he told his parents or friends what was going on.

Why am I thinking of the line from the song Fancy, “You be nice to the gentlemen, Fancy, and they’ll be nice to you?”

If the family “put pressure on him to accept,” either they did know — even if in surface denial — or they were so stupid they can only be Obama voters.
Dana
April 17th, 2014 @ 3:04 pm

The 13 year old girl raped by Roman Polanski was sent to him by her mother.
Colorado Alex
April 17th, 2014 @ 3:14 pm

Humans are remarkably adept and twisting logic and reason to fit their desires. If the parents didn’t want to know, they’d find a way to ignore or excuse away the problem.
Colorado Alex
April 17th, 2014 @ 3:15 pm

It never went away.
Durasim
April 17th, 2014 @ 3:15 pm

This is not the first time Bryan Singer and his entourage have been accused of impropriety with minors.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,287669,00.html

Bryan Singer denies it, and maybe the allegations are false. But they are certainly not implausible. If heterosexual directors have been sexually exploiting actors for decades, then certainly homosexual directors are capable of it. It’s not as if adult homosexual filmmakers have some magical halo and aura around them which renders them incapable of sexual crimes, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Salva

Whether these allegations are true or false, they prove one thing, which is the polar opposite reactions that liberals, leftists, progressives, etc. have depending upon the sexual orientation of the accused. Progressives and feminists chant “We believe survivors of rape!” or “support victims!”
All of those platitudes go out the window when the accused is openly homosexual, and they circle the wagons, denouncing the allegations as lies and homophobia. I say “openly homosexual” because in a lot of instances of male/male sexual abuse, progressives and feminists will always try to claim that the perpetrator is still somehow heterosexual, unless the perpetrator declared and certified his homosexuality in advance of the accusations.
HollywoodLiars
April 17th, 2014 @ 3:51 pm

Really odd timing for these accusations(not that I’m dismissing them as false)since he has taken over the X-Men franchise again, and the new film premiers in a just a few weeks. Is this part corporate sabotage in order to get the weekend box office?
Zohydro
April 17th, 2014 @ 3:54 pm

Only half?
Anon Y. Mous
April 17th, 2014 @ 3:56 pm

Who ever heard of a Hollywood director being into drugs and sex, right?

Can’t imagine such a thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Salva
concern00
April 17th, 2014 @ 3:58 pm

This doesn’t make MSM news because this sort of behavior is considered “both fairly innocuous and extremely common.” At least in liberal circles.
Bozikek
April 17th, 2014 @ 4:07 pm

Not saying who runs the other half
RKae
April 17th, 2014 @ 4:43 pm

And Corey Feldman was speaking carefully! If we could rip the cover off of Tinseltown, you’d see an insane orgy of underage rape that makes the Catholic Church scandals look ridiculously small.
JeffS
April 17th, 2014 @ 5:08 pm

Y’know, strip out the genders from this story, but leave in the behavior and relationships, and it’s abundantly clear that Hollywood is a deeply dysfunctional and decadent element of our culture.
DaveO
April 17th, 2014 @ 5:10 pm

This happened 15 years ago? What is the complaintent’s issue bringing it up now? Money? Romantic rejection? Belief Singer had applied to be a Florida Teacher? Where were mom and dad during these drug-fueled orgies, trysts, and job interviews?
Federale
April 17th, 2014 @ 5:11 pm

Sounds like the plaintiff had no objection to the activities if he is flying to where those activities take place. This is like the rape accusations by slutty coeds after the drunken frat party.
richard mcenroe
April 17th, 2014 @ 8:13 pm

Victor Salva wrote and directed a horror movie called Jeepers Creepers. Subsequent to its release, he was sentenced to three years in prison for sexually abusing the underage male star of his debut move, Powder. Zoetrope Studios’ (Francis Ford Coppola) spokesman, upon hearing of his conviction as a pedophile, said, “Jeepers Creepers made forty-five million dollars. Of course we’ll work with him again.” The sequel, Jeepers Creepers 2, featured even more over pedophilic imagery and suggestions. They’re up to Jeepers Creepers 3 now.

They know, in Hollywood. They absolutely know. They just don’t care as long as the money’s there.
Kirby McCain
April 17th, 2014 @ 8:29 pm

How could that be when they are so discriminated against?
Kirby McCain
April 17th, 2014 @ 8:31 pm

They don’t reproduce, so they need the ‘breeders’ children.
Bob Belvedere
April 17th, 2014 @ 9:02 pm

Always has been. Read Hollywood Babylon.
Durasim
April 17th, 2014 @ 9:03 pm

I think you’ve got the timeline a bit wrong.

Victor Salva’s sex crime charges were in 1988 and he was released from prison in 1989 (he only served 15 months of a 3 year sentence). The child that he molested in 1988 was a 12 year old actor who starred in his movie “Clownhouse.” “Powder” was not released until 1995 and “Jeepers Creepers” was not released until 2001.

http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jun/11/entertainment/ca-salva11

The star of “Powder,” Sean Patrick Flanery, would have been around 29 to 30 when it was being made. Never heard of any allegations that Salva tried to do anything sexual to Flanery, but anything is possible.

However, although there have not been allegations of Salva trying to molest any actors in his later films, he almost always includes homoerotic and even pedophiliac themes. In the film “Powder,” the messianic main character is completely bald and hairless and likes to stare at shirtless teens in the gym and gets called “faggot” by ignorant townspeople.

Some psychologists picked up on Salva’s message:

“According to Sandra Baker, executive director of the Child and Family Institute in Sacramento, Calif., child molesters think “they are more perceptive and beautiful than other people. They feel misunderstood.” Salva’s having made Powder a pale, hairless, sensitive outcast fits “what pedophiles can relate to,” she adds. “They want their victims to be hairless usually. They don’t want adult sex characteristics.”

L.A. family therapist Lisa Hacker notes that when a teacher (Jeff Goldblum) tells Powder that he’s “never had better sex” since being touched by him, and then later strokes his bald head, the conduct is “very intimate and inappropriate.”

http://www.vachss.com/mission/disney.html
Kas
April 17th, 2014 @ 10:09 pm

I read the Variety write up. The comments will make your head explode. “15 year old boys aren’t exactly innocent these days, you know….” Thankfully there was ample push back.

These parties are the worst kept secret in town, apparently. It was common knowledge what went on was ugly.
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Dianna Deeley
April 17th, 2014 @ 10:55 pm

No, but I also sniff a certain feculent odor.
richard mcenroe
April 17th, 2014 @ 11:44 pm

I stand by the jail time, and the Zoetrope quote. I would have to go back and lookup the Powder reference I thought referred to that actor.

And we seem to be in agreement about these deeply creepy movies and the man who made them otherwise.
Bozikek
April 18th, 2014 @ 9:23 am

Funny thing how homosexuality keeps appearing in places known for immorality and social decay…. must be the oppression lol
Jupiter C.
April 18th, 2014 @ 12:03 pm

Looks to me like a lot of people are ready to jump on the bandwagon of a little whore in the middle of a money grab.
Dana
April 18th, 2014 @ 1:09 pm

Some people see a 17-year-old rape victim, which, at least if what he alleges happened in California, is true enough.

But what I see is a 33 year old used up twink rent boy, who’s gotten too old to make money selling his ass anymore, and now needs to F the people who already paid money to F him when he was younger.
LN_Smithee
April 18th, 2014 @ 3:39 pm

I hate to sound like an apologist for bad behavior, but I also gotta wonder why Egan would fly 2300 miles to Hawaii at the age of 17 to be at the mercy of the same people he now says raped him in California. Does not compute.

I can’t endorse it when people degrade themselves in the hopes of gaining money, power, and a hedonistic life and then resorting to extortion when things don’t work out like they expected.
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LN_Smithee
April 18th, 2014 @ 3:44 pm

Another person who is probably not going to like when the phone rings today: Brock Pierce, who at the age of 18 was an EVP (!) at Collins-Rector & Shackley’s DEN. He’s now a big deal webpreneur, and one of those guys trying to stake an early claim in Bitcoin’s future.
LN_Smithee
April 18th, 2014 @ 3:55 pm

I didn’t read Hollywood Babylon, but I was in a Blockbuster Video store (remember them?) one time when the management inexplicably played the documentary film on the monitors. Holy crap! There were kids in the store!
Zohydro
April 18th, 2014 @ 4:12 pm

And the memoir of Scotty Bowers…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Service:_My_Adventures_in_Hollywood_and_the_Secret_Sex_Lives_of_the_Stars
K-Bob
April 18th, 2014 @ 7:28 pm

Some people will buy anything.