Hollywood is sick, sick, sick. Behind its curtain of holier-than-thou progressivism, the entertainment world’s power players have engaged in the most depraved sexual abuse against vulnerable children and teens, according to a growing number of victims. After years of cover-up, the institutional scandal is exploding. Finally.
The latest allegations involve “X-Men” director Bryan Singer and at least three other players in the business: veteran TV executive Garth Ancier, former Disney exec David Neuman and producer Gary Goddard.
Last month, former child actor and model Michael Egan filed civil suits against the men, alleging that they passed around underage boys “like pieces of meat at sex parties” in the late ’90s.
Egan’s X-rated lawsuit exposes a cabal of alleged predators who plied young boys and teens with hard drugs and alcohol before sexually assaulting them.
Egan was repeatedly molested, raped and beaten from the age of 15, he says, at an infamous gay sex mansion in southern California. The mansion was owned by another of Egan’s alleged abusers: scumbag Internet video mogul Marc Collins-Rector.
He’s a registered sex offender who lured young boys online, drugged and raped them, and reportedly threatened them with a gun if they didn’t submit.
Collins-Rector was convicted in 2004 of transporting five underage boys across state lines with the intent of raping them. He was allowed to leave the United States in 2006 by claiming a “brain tumor,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The (UK) Sun reported in 2007 that he was “swanning around Britain in a chauffer-driven limo and surrounding himself with young boys.” He can no longer be located, despite supposedly being under police “supervision.”
Egan’s mother reported the abuse to the FBI and LAPD back in 2000, the family’s lawyer, Jeff Herman, says. Nothing was done.
Singer’s lawyer calls Egan’s suit “absurd” and “defamatory.” But the allegations just keep piling up.
Singer is now the subject of another lawsuit filed this week by a young British man who alleges Singer’s producer pal Gary Goddard groomed him online from the age of 14, raped him at 16 and shared him with Singer after the London premiere of Singer’s movie “Superman Returns” in 2006.
Internet photos have been circulating for years showing Singer with a parade of young boys and men draped around him.
Egan’s claims are especially chilling in light of similarly lurid allegations made 17 years ago on the set of Singer’s movie “Apt Pupil.”
Three boys — ages 14, 16 and 17 — filed suit claiming Singer and his crew forced them to take off peach-colored G-strings and strip naked in a shower scene for the movie. Authorities investigated. The suit was dismissed. Nothing was done.
The alleged child-rape scandal exposed by Egan doesn’t exist in a vacuum:
Last year, former child actor Corey Feldman sounded the alarm on rampant pedophilia in a brave, scathing memoir. He recounted how his best friend and co-star, the late Corey Haim, was sodomized by an older male on a film set.
The boys, fed cocaine by a string of predators, attended parties with Hollywood talent manager and child actors’ rep Marty Weiss. Now a registered sex offender, Weiss pleaded no contest in 2012 to lewd acts on a child under the age of 14. The victim, another young child actor, alleged Weiss sexually assaulted him between 30 and 40 times from the age of 11.
Boy-band impresario Lou Pearlman hosted sleepover parties wearing only a towel and solicited massages from young male singers. “Certain things happened, and it almost destroyed our family,” boy-band star Nick Carter’s mother told Vanity Fair years ago. “I tried to warn everyone.”
Former child actor Todd Bridges (“Diff’rent Strokes”) says he was abused by his agent.
Former teen pop princess Debbie Gibson has spoken of “older male record executives” who hit on her while she was underage.
Despite longstanding allegations of molestation and rape, directors Woody Allen and Roman Polanski still enjoy professional acclaim and adoration of their peers.
Fashion photographer Terry Richardson continues to enjoy the support of Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Rihanna and Miley Cyrus despite years of allegations of misogyny, manipulation and sexual misconduct against young models.
If all of these sickos had been Catholic priests or college fraternity members, we wouldn’t have heard the end of it.
Perhaps the social-justice awareness-raisers in the Hollywood left should take a break from pointing fingers at everyone else — and put a stop to the monsters in their own midst.