'These statements are fabricated': X-Men accuser had made sex abuse claims before... but he failed to mention director Bryan Singer



Alleged victim Michael Egan, 31, accused Singer and others of sex crimes

He spoke of being treated like 'a piece of meat' and raped at pool parties

Court papers from 2000 have now emerged - but don't name Singer



Singer's legal team seized on the papers as proof new allegations are untrue

Yesterday Egan said Singer treated him like 'a piece of meat'



Egan is now 31, but was 17 at the time of the alleged abuse in 1999 and 2000



The 31-year-old man suing X-Men director Bryan Singer for raping him as a teenager had already filed a lawsuit over the alleged abuse - but failed to mention Singer.

Michael Egan, who has sensationally claimed that he was abused and 'treated like a piece of meat' at sordid parties in 1999 and 2000, also appears on court papers filed 14 years ago, it emerged.

Documents filed with the Los Angeles superior court and dated July 2000 show a 'Michael E' - whose year of birth matches Egan's - alleging similar complaints to a suit he filed this week in Hawaii.

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Details: Michael Egan filed a lawsuit on Wednesday - and held a press conference yesterday claiming Bryan Singer drugged and raped him in California and Hawaii in the late 1990s

However, the papers do not name Bryan Singer. They do mention Hollywood power broker Mark Collins-Rector - also named in the recent complaint - who has previously been found guilty of sex crimes.

It is unclear how the case, unearthed by the Hollywood Reporter, concluded, though Singer's legal team have seized upon their client not being named before as evidence the claims are 'fabricated'.

Martin Singer, the director's attorney, said: 'It's clear that these statements are fabricated. If Bryan had done anything wrong, he would have been included in the previous lawsuit.'



At a press conference yesterday, Egan opened up about his alleged experiences at the sordid pool parties where it took place.

Speaking yesterday evening, Michael Egan said Singer treated him like 'a piece of meat' and he claims he had 'a gun put in my mouth' by Hollywood power broker Mark Rector-Collins so he'd do as he was told.

'I wouldn't say it was a relationship [with Singer], you were a piece of meat,' Egan said of how he was treated at the parties at Rector Collins' home that he allegedly began attending when he was just 14 or 15.

He said: 'Certain situations like at the house where the rules were no swimsuits by the pool areas. I was in the hot tub with Singer and other individuals, they grope you, shove your head under water, orally molest you, then they'd rape you by the side of hot tub. You were a piece of meat.'

He claimed the men regularly threatened to ruin his acting dreams if he didn't comply with their demands.



Allegations: X-Men director Bryan Singer has been accused of sexually abusing Michael Egan, right, when he was a teen, in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Hawaii



'We were told that we had to keep the members happy - "We control Hollywood and we will eliminate you" - there was threat after threat,' Egan told reporters.

'My phone was being monitored, such horrible things being said. You believe them. You continue going round (to the house) as, if you didn't, you were fearful of what would happen to you or members of your family.'

His lawyer also seemed to refer to the previous complaint during the conference, adding that it came to nothing.

'Abused': Egan is pictured here aged 17, at the time of the alleged rapes and sordid sex parties

He said: ‘People ask why did Mike not notify authorities when it happened? Yes he did, he spoke to his mum when he was 17 and went to police, who reported it to the FBI.



‘Why did it take so long to come to me to file a lawsuit? As he will say, he was scared. He tried to come to the authorities and nothing happened.'

Egan added: ' 'My mum was the one who made the phone calls to the police as I was still a minor, it was an agent from LAPD, they then brought it to the FBI.'



He claims he first came into contact with the movie industry bigwigs when he moved from Nebraska to Los Angeles to make it as an actor, and attended private school, San Fernando Valley Professional School.



It was there he came into contact with Rector-Collins' partner Chad Shackley, who, it is claimed invited him and other boys around for parties.

'I had drugs put in my drink, liquor poured down my throat, (I was) raped numerous times in that house, various times (I was) sexually abused,' he said. 'There was a policy of no clothes by the poolside area. I was a piece of meat to these people.'



Singer's attorney, Marty Singer, called the claims 'without merit' and 'absurd and defamatory'.

Shackley is yet to comment on the allegations.

Singer, who is not related to the director he represents, added: 'We look forward to our bringing a claim for malicious prosecution against Mr. Egan and his attorney after we prevail.

'It is obvious that plaintiff's attorney is not looking to litigate the case on its merits'.



Egan also told the conference how his life unravelled after the initial complaint failed.

'I basically buried it in me as well as I could. I developed a problem with drinking, it numbed the pain for years,' he explained.



'But two years ago, I stopped drinking, then walked into my first trauma therapy session, and I've been doing it for 11 months, dealing with deep-rooted issues. I can say that I am a survivor of sexual abuse.'



He said he never pursed his acting career - the alleged abuse at the hands of the industry's bosses turned him off. And he now works with his brother on businesses in Las Vegas.

Also speaking at Thursday's press conference, Egan's lawyer Jeff Herman said other Hollywood power players were also abusing underage teens and that he would reveal more cases next week. He dubbed them 'paedophile rings'.

'Mike has been called a liar, been attacked and the story denied,' Herman said. 'But I have heard from many people that they were abused in Hollywood as children just in the last 18 hours.



'I've been investigating this case for six months, there are paedophile rings that happen in Hollywood that overlap each other. I want to give victims a voice.'

More: Egan's lawyer John Herman said there were at least three more lawsuits to come next week alleging similar abuse

'Mike is very brave to come forward. He was threatened after it happened [talking about the abuse], threatened to keep quiet.



'After several years, he now feels strong enough to come forward on this very dark secret, but, as I know, it's the worst kept secret around. So many people knew about these circles existing.'



Herman added that he is representing one of the others who will be filing a lawsuit.



'The lawsuit is only against Mr Singer, but obviously there are other perpetrators and they will be named next week in other lawsuits. There will be at least three.



'I can say there are other Hollywood types. There's at least three more suits to come.'



According to court submissions Bryan Singer, whose latest X-Men film is due for release next month, first met Egan at one of the 'notorious' pool parties run by Rector-Collins, a Hollywood power player who was jailed for having sex with minors.

The 48-year-old director and producer runs his own annual 'orgy-style' pool parties to celebrate Gay Pride .

Egan claims Singer used his power in the entertainment industry to sexually exploit him when he was an underage teen actor.



In the suit, Egan claims the abuse started when he was 14 or 15 after he moved to LA with his family to start his acting career.



It was in LA that he was introduced to Marc Collins-Rector and his lover Chad Shackley, he claims.



Egan was invited to one of Collins-Rector's 'notorious' parties held at his home, dubbed the M&C Estate in Encino, California.



According to the suit, the parties were well-known in Hollywood and attended by investors in Collin-Rector's company who lured young boys as part of a 'sordid sex ring'. Collins-Rector eventually faced justice himself, admitting in court in 2004 that he lured five minors across state lines for sexual purposes.

Alleged victim: Egan, left, with his attorney, Jeff Herman, is accusing 'X-Men' franchise director Bryan Singer of sexually abusing him as a teenager in a federal lawsuit filed in Hawaii

Deaf ears: Egan, left, told reporters he opened up about the alleged abuse to his mom in late 1999 or 2000 and they contacted the police but nothing happened

While these parties allegedly 'featured sexual contact between adult males and the many teenage boys', Egan maintains he 'never freely' consented to the advances.

And today, a source close to Egan told MailOnline: 'Michael told me he was molested by someone in the entertainment industry and blamed it for his psychological problems - he has a lot of problems, he's a really messed-up person.'

Meanwhile, today, Singer returned to the set of his new 4D musical extravaganza he is directing, featuring stars including Hugh Jackman and Christina Aguilera.



Collins-Rector is a registered sex offender and in 2004 pleaded guilty to luring minors across state lines for sexual acts.



Collins-Rector changed his name from Mark Rector to Mark Collins-Rector in 1998. He remains best-known for founding the Digital Entertainment Network (DEN), an online streaming video broadcaster and a notable dot-com failure.

DEN collapsed following a failed IPO bid and collapsed amid allegations he had sexually abused children, coercing them with drugs and guns. Collins-Rector then fled to Europe, ending up in Spain.

He fought extradition proceedings for two years before returning to the United States, where he pleaded guilty to eight charges of child enticement and registered as a sex offender.

Collins-Rector admitted luring five minors across state lines for sexual purposes. He received credit for time that he had served in a Spanish jail. Some of his victims sued in civil court, winning $4.5million under a summary judgement.



Raucous: The wild scene at Bryan Singer and Roland Emmerich's recent post Gay Pride party as published on Queerty website. There is no suggestion anything illegal happened at the pictured party Abuse: Marc Collins-Rector (left) is a registered sex offender and in 2004 pleaded guilty to luring minors across state lines for sexual acts. X Men director Bryan Singer (right) is accused of molesting then under-age Michael Egan after meeting him at Collins-Rector's Los Angeles home



Promises: Singer has been directing X-men movies since 2000. He allegedly promised the then 17-year-old victim a role in one of the movies back in 1999. Above, a poster for Singer's latest film, due out next month

The legal papers, filed in Hawaii, claims that Egan was put on the payroll for DEN, and paid $1,500 a week. It continues: 'Salaries of this nature were paid to many of the teenage males lured to the M & C Estate to have sex with the adults who resided there or visited there for recreational and business purposes.'

It claims that Egan was promised stock in DEN and given extravagant gifts, as well as being transported on private jets. He attended parties run by Collins-Rector and Shackley which were 'typically sordid and featured sexual contact between adult males and the many teenage boys who were present for the parties.' The boys were, the suit says, plied with drugs and alcohol.

It was two or three months after Collins-Rector allegedly began abusing Egan that he, it is claimed, he was introduced to Singer at one of the parties.



Egan was allegedly in the pool when Collins-Rector approached him and ordered him out to hug Singer.



Egan says he was was nude, as per the rules of the house pool, so when he hugged Singer the director allegedly 'grabbed his bare buttocks'.

According to the lawsuit, Singer told Egan he was 'sexy' and went on to masturbate the underage boy and perform oral sex on him. The director then told Egan to do the same to him, but the then-minor says he resisted.

That allegedly caused Singer to push the boy's head under water. When he finally got up for air, Singer again demanded he perform oral sex and when he refused for the second time, Singer took him out of the pool and forcibly sodomized him, Egan says.



Now Egan is suing the director for $300,000 for the 'catastrophic psychological and emotional injuries' he says he suffered, the documents say.



The suit details how Egan was taken to Hawaii on more than one occasion when he was 17, where he was raped by Singer.

Two of the trips took place or or between August 1, 1999, and October 31, 1999, and Egan stayed at the Paul Mitchell estate in Kailua, Hawaii, with Collins-Rector, Shackley and others including Singer and a number of juvenile males, it's alleged.



The court papers read: 'While there, the Paul Mitchell estate contained firearms, drugs, and alcohol. As in California, there was frequent sexual contact by a number of adult males with teenage males and the providing of alcoholic beverages and drugs to the young males.'

Egan was warned by Collins-Rector and Singer they controlled Hollywood - and they would destroy his dreams of an acting career if he did not keep them happy. They threatened to 'eliminate' him and his family and told them they were monitoring his phone and family, the suit claims.

Friends: directors Roland Emmerich and Bryan Singer seen at a Pussy Riot reception hosted by Emmerich, alongside Kimberly Peirce in Los Angeles on April 6

Scene of the crime? Egan was allegedly taken on two trips to Hawaii with Singer where they stayed at the Paul Mitchell resort, entrance pictured above. However, those claims are now in question

On each occasion when Plaintiff was in Hawaii, he was required to interact with Defendant Singer while at the Paul Mitchell estate. On more than one occasion, Defendant Singer provided him with drugs, including cocaine, a pill identified as “green triangle” which is believed to be a reference to the drug Ecstasy, Xanax, Rohypnol, pain pills believed to be Vicodin or Percocet, and alcoholic beverages.

It says: 'Defendant Singer promised acting roles to Plaintiff in an X-Men movie, in commercials, and in other of his projects, and professed that he would arrange for Plaintiff to audition for roles and projects in others’ productions. Often when Plaintiff dared to resist the demands of Defendant Singer, he threatened to report Plaintiff’s refusals to Collins-Rector which frightened Plaintiff due to Collins-Rector’s history of threatening harm to him and his family.'

Representing Egan is attorney Jeff Herman, who plans on filing more sex abuse cases against film industry execs soon.



'Hollywood has a problem with the sexual exploitation of children. This is the first of many cases I will be filing to give these victims a voice and to expose the issue,' Mr Herman said in a press release.

Singer first started directing the comic book adaptations in 2000. In 1999, when the Hawaii trips happened, the director would have been around 33 years old.



Egan and his lawyer are scheduled to hold a press conference about the new lawsuit today in Los Angeles.



Suit: X Men director Bryan Singer is accused of child molestation and involvement in drugs as part of a 'sordid sex ring' in a lawsuit filed by alleged victim Michael Egan in Hawaii

Accusations: Bryan Singer is accused of sexually abusing Michael Egan, alongside child abuser Marc Collins-Rector

Claims: The law suit claims Bryan Singer coerced Michael Egan into sexual activity

They've filed in Hawaii, however, since the statue of limitations to file a suit is longer there and would have expired next week.



In response, Marty Singer, a lawyer for the director, said 'it is obvious that this case was filed in an attempt to get publicity,' ahead of the film's release.



'The claims made against Bryan Singer are completely without merit. We are very confident that Bryan will be vindicated in this absurd and defamatory lawsuit.'

Openly gay Singer co-hosts poolside Pride 'boy parties' every year alongside director Roland Emmerich, the man behind Hollywood hit such as The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day and 2012.



Emmerich told The Advocate in 2011: 'Four or five years ago I kind of proposed to [Singer] that it should be no more than 400 [people].

You know what Bryan said? 'You want to make it that exclusive?' I said, 'Are you kidding me?' But then I kind of realized when [Singer] makes a New Year's party there’s like 600, 700 twinks running around and he’s hiding in his room. That’s quite typical.'

Emmerich estimated their 2009 bash drew 1,200 guests, admitting: 'I didn’t know anybody anymore because all my friends said, 'Oh, f**k it, I'm leaving.' I said, 'No more. This is becoming a circuit party.';