“X-Men: Days of Future Past” director Bryan Singer has been accused of sexually abusing a teenage boy named Michael Egan in 1999 in a federal lawsuit filed in Hawaii on Wednesday (April 16), according to Variety. Singer has directed some of Hollywood’s biggest films including “The Usual Suspects”, “X-Men”, “X2”, “Superman Returns” and “Valkyrie”.
In the lawsuit, the plantiff claims Singer forcibly sodomized him at a house in Encino when he was 17 years old. Egan’s lawyer Jeff Herman alleges the director flew his client out to Hawaii on “more than one occasion in 1999” and provided him with drugs and alcohol.
“Hollywood has a problem with the sexual exploitation of children,” Jeff said in a statement. “This is the first of many cases I will be filing to give these victims a voice and to expose the issue.”
Meanwhile, Singer’s attorney, Marty Singer, calls the lawsuit “absurd and defamatory.”
“The claims made against Bryan Singer are completely without merit,” Marty Singer said. “We are very confident that Bryan will be vindicated.”
Bryan Singer could face charges of battery, assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy by unreasonable intrusion, and may have to pay unspecified damages if convicted.
