X-Men Director Bryan Singer Accused of Raping 17-Year-Old Boy

As Harvey Weinstein‘s day of reckoning is speeding toward him like a bullet train, what’s even more fascinating about the current purge happening in Hollywood, with one new case happening after another like a never-ending domino-split, is that stories we heard about years ago, which were eventually buried away by top-notch damage control teams, are finally making their way back into the fray and this time with a vengeance. Right now, there’s no way you can bury any story that has to do with this topic. Take for example the case of Bryan Singer. A storm was slowly but surely brewing over the writer-director’s rumored past. It felt like it was just around the corner and ready to explode into the zeitgeist. In fact, many were just waiting for the bomb to come down after word came about his erratic behavior on the set of the Freddy Mercury biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody." He has, surely, been lawyering up, preparing for the worst and rounding up his damage control team. I mean, why wouldn’t he?

Well, now comes the news that Singer is being sued for allegedly raping a 17-year-old boy on a yacht, and then "used his position in Hollywood to threaten him into silence."

Buzzfeed has this:

"In the lawsuit, Cesar Sanchez-Guzman alleges that Singer offered to give him a tour of the yacht during a boat party near Seattle in 2003. Once cornered in a room, Singer allegedly forced the teen to perform oral sex before raping him, according to the lawsuit filed in Washington state court"

"The lawsuit states that the yacht was owned by wealthy tech investor Lester Waters, and that the party was attended by a number of young gay men. Sanchez-Guzman states that he was 17 at the time of the party and did not know Singer except that he was a friend of Waters. After the alleged assault, Sanchez-Guzman states in the lawsuit that Singer threatened to ruin his reputation if he came forward."

Singer's rep told TMZ that the lawsuit was filed by the same lawyer who represented a man, Michael Egan, who several years ago accused Singer and others in the industry of sexual misconduct, only to withdraw the claims.

"Those claims were dismissed by Egan himself, and he later went to Federal prison for lying in a fraud case," the rep told TMZ.

Here's a bit of history on Singer:

After directing the Oscar-winning hit “ The Usual Suspects,” Singer was a hot commodity in Hollywood. However, only a year after winning the statuette, in 1997, a 14-year-old extra accused the director of asking him and other minors to film a shower scene naked for “Apt Pupil.” The suit was dismissed for insufficient evidence.

Since then, rumors have always been abounding in Hollywood about Singer, but not many “victims” would come forward. Did the “Apt Pupil” incident scare people away? It wasn’t enough to scare actor Michael Egan III whom, in April of 2014, accused Singer of sexual assault in an incident that occurred in 1999. Singer had allegedly drugged and raped Egan, who was a minor, in Hawaii and Los Angeles at the time of “Apt Pupil.” Singer denied the accusations, proclaiming them to be “outrageous, vicious, and completely false.” The suit was withdrawn by Egan, but another surfaced from a British man alleging similar behavior around the time of “Superman Returns.” Nonetheless, Singer continued making movies.

However, earlier this month, a series of tweets appeared from a man named Justin Smith, that alleged that Singer sexually assaulted him in the early aughts. The tweets have since been deleted, according to The Daily Wire, they read as follows:

I first met #BryanSinger in 2000. My boyfriend was one of his best friends, so I had many interactions with him. From the first time I met him, he was always on something. He also constantly hit on me, always asking me to show him my dick or ass. (1/14)