Bryan Singer, director of X-Men: Days of Future Past, has filed a motion to dismiss the case brought on by Michael Egan, which claimed that Singer had sexually abused Egan in Hawaii when he just was a teenage boy.
The director filed the motion due to lack of jurisdiction, quoting Egan’s sworn disposition from 2003 in which he states that he was not in Hawaii in 1999 at the time of the alleged incident and never sexually abused him.
In a sworn statement, the director pointed out the he had been in Canada for pre-production of X-Men from August to October in 1999. He adds that during that time period he had been on a side trip for business to California and another to New England to visit family during the time the alleged abuse was to have taken place.
Singer states that he has reviewed “telephone records, credit card statements, sales receipts, check stubs and other business records” that substantiate his presence in the three places, but copies of those documents were not included in the motion. The document continues to state that Egan has no proof that Singer was not in Hawaii during the time in which the incident had occurred.
Egan filed four sexual abuse suits in April against Singer, Gary Goddard, Garth Ancier and David Neuman, alleging they had been involved in a ring that coerced underage teenagers into sexual activity.
In the motion, Singer further claims that the timing of Egan’s 2014 case, which occurred shortly before the release of the latest X-Men film, had been orchestrated “to maximize public attention on the eve of the picture’s release,” continuing to state that “the timing of this action and inclusion of its sordid (and provably false) allegations are nothing more than tools being used to embarrass, harass and pressure Singer and precipitate a shakedown of a perceived ‘deep pocket.’”
Singer’s filing comes less than a week after Davis Neuman filed a similar motion.
