Posted on 04/17/2014 5:42:00 AM PDT by C19fan
Just a month before his next film X-Men: Days of Future Past is set to release, director Bryan Singer has been accused of child molestation. According to documents filed in Hawaii, 31-year-old Michael Egan claims Singer used his power in the entertainment industry to sexually exploit him when he was an underage teen actor striking it out in Los Angeles. Now Egan is suing the director, for $300,000 for the 'catastrophic psychological and emotional injuries' he says he suffered, the documents filed Wednesday explain.
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Having heard a presentation at one of our bar meetings about these cases, money is all there is to get. These pervs are protected by each other from prosecution, they don’t give a shit about anyone but themselves and the victims are highly tormented mentally. They don’t want to recount what happened and their parents could have been in denial.
I am glad you believe so strongly in your parents, many people can’t say that.
I just wonder if as the article put it:
Singer used his power in the entertainment industry to sexually exploit him when he was an underage teen actor striking it out in Los Angeles
I wonder if a male teenage of 17 (legal in most states) and an actor, probably was already homosexual and was willing to use the casting couch system that Hollyweird uses. he failed in his dreams of show biz and in the end decided to make his payday a different way.
just a thought.
pretty damn difficult row to hoe just make a “payday”, you can’t believe what these big defense firms put these plaintiffs through, trying to outspend them, bury them with mountains of interrogatories, investigating and bringing up every little detail of their lives..............
This is apparently the norm in Hollyweird
If people should “read up” on this, please provide a link. I’ve never heard of a clinical study about “this stuff catches up with you in your 40s.”
These days these kids are the family gravy train and they don’t want to lose it. Here’s your one chance, Fancy, don’t let me down.
Hollywood is an evil place.
shyster lawyer will take this case on commission...they have people on retainer to investigate.
I don’t know the veracity of any of this. and just because someone wins or loses a case means the jury wanted to punish one party or another and not necessarily because of the facts, because of their likes or dislikes.....
Confidence on the part of the child has zero to do with whether or not the parents would protect them.
How many kids even see either parents for more than fifteen or twenty hours during the course of a week...if they even have two. Or one actually.
There are a hell of a lot of parents who simply don’t want to be bothered. Absolutely they will ignore things happening to their kids, and go so far as to punish them for making things up. Generally without so much as a cursory investigation into the matter. Later contrition on the part of parents can’t fix things, or restore love and respect they shattered long ago.
only a lawyer who is serious will take this and the expenses that go in to such an undertaking are astonishingly high. These cases are a ton of work, 5 - 10 years sometimes. You are talking foolishness.
The article said the abuse started when he was14-15
Done. This text book condenses things pretty well.
Hollywood homosexuals seducing boys with fame, fortune, drugs & alcohol.
good comeback...calling me foolish.
lots of two bit shysters out there...some with more nerve than resources....
don’t be so abusive.
you sound like a lawyer....ergo I have lost all respect.
why would a paperback book be $62?
“Yeah. There are large numbers of cases where this happens, and the victim’s trauma doesn’t initiate for years or decades later.”
“Trauma” often irrupts when the self identifying ‘victim’
meets an underemployed lawyer and the statute of limitations has not run.
His timing is good, considering the movie opening and the guy’s name recognition right now. I’d bet dollars to donuts he went to him first for hush money and was promptly shown the door, then decided to let a lawyer take 1/3 plus expenses.
17 isn’t exactly a kid either, my grandma and grandpa were married and had a kid on the way by the time they turned 18, he knew what he was doing IMHO.
$200k is still better than nothing I guess...
I am a lawyer, one of the honest ones.
Cory Feldman has told a similar story, but he declined to name names.
The abuse he reported took place in more or less the same time frame as this story describes.
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