Carlos Delgado for New York Daily News Michael Egan III told a room full of reporters he was among the young boys treated liked 'meat' by a nefarious gang of Hollywood men. A Nevada man braved the media spotlight Thursday to publicly accuse "X-Men" director Bryan Sin! ger of being a super villain who repeatedly sexually abused him when he was a vulnerable teen hoping to find fame in Tinseltown.
Michael Egan III, 31, charges that the filmmaker was part of a Hollywood band of gay men that plied young boys with drugs and booze and used the boys' desire to catch a break in the industry to exploit them as sex toys.
"You were a piece of meat to these people and they'd pass you around between them," Egan said at a news conference at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.
"I can now stand in front of all of you today and say, I am a survivor of childhood sexual abuse," he added. "Some people don't have a voice to say that. Some end up dead."
Carlos Delgado for New York Daily News Michael Egan III (left) addresses the media Thursday at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles. 
David James/WarnerBros Director Bryan Singer vehemently denies the sensational allegations he sexually abused a boy at a wild Los Angeles party. 
Alan Markfield/Fox Bryan Singer on the set of his latest film 'X-Men: Days of Future Past,' set for release next month.Previous Next
EnlargeEgan, whose lawyer filed suit against Singer in federal court Wednesday, was originally from Nebraska and came to Hollywood with his family in his mid-teens. His suit alleges that Singer sexually abused him between the ages of 15 and 17 in the late-1990s. The accusations include forced sodomy.
Egan said his mother reported the alleged abuse to police back in the 1990s and even contacted the FBI.
"It fell on deaf ears. Then I buried it in me as deep as I could," Egan said. He added that Singer's alleged sexual victimization of him led him to experience a long battle with alcoholism, and that he began to seek therapy for the first time about a year ago.
I can now stand in front of all of you today and say, I am a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.
"I went to trauma therapy and started to look at the issues and decided to look at the avenues to see if I had any legal rights," Egan said.
Singer's lawyer has called the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Hawaii, "absurd and defamatory" and suggested it was a publicity stunt launched to coincide with the May 23 release of Singer's new film, "X-Men: Days of Future Past."
But Egan's attorney, Jeff Herman, scoffed at that characterization. He said the suit was filed in Hawaii because of the state's recent decision to temporarily suspend the statute of limitations on child sex abuse crimes. The suit says Singer sexually abused Egan during vacations in Hawaii when Egan was 17. A similar law was vetoed in October 2013 in California by Gov. Jerry Brown.
Herman/ Splash News Michael Egan III pictured at age 17, years after the alleged abuse by Bryan Singer took place.
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Charley Gallay/Getty Bryan Singer's attorney claims the allegations are 'absurd and defamatory' and a stunt.
EnlargeThe suit, which seeks unspecified damages in excess of $75,000, charges that Singer sexually assaulted Egan twice in Hawaii in 1999 and that the abuse began at a Los Angeles-area mansion owned by one-time online mogul Marc Collins-Rector, who pleaded guilty in 2004 to luring minors across state lines for sex.
Egan's suit charges that Collins-Rector's swanky pad in Encino, Calif., was notorious for drug- and alcohol-fueled parties in which adult men, many of them movers and shakers in Hollywood, would have sex with young boys.
Bonnie Robinson reported from Los Angeles.
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