Court papers from suit brought by Egan in 2000 have now emerged - but don't name Singer. Director's legal team say it shows claims are untrue

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

Egan claims he was treated like 'a piece of meat' and raped at pool parties

But confirmed to MailOnline she'd be working on the project for two years

Alleged victim Michael Egan, 31, working with Amy Berg - who was nominated for Academy Award for film of Catholic Church sex abuse

The man accusing X Men director Bryan Singer of sex abuse has teamed up with an Oscar-nominated filmmaker for a bombshell documentary that threatens to expose the sordid underbelly of Hollywood.

Michael Egan, who claims he was raped by Singer at a string of Hollywood pool parties as a teenager, has been working with Amy Berg, MailOnline can reveal.

Miss Berg runs Disarming Films and yesterday confirmed to MailOnline she had been working on the project for the past two years.

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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

Feted: Filmmaker Amy Berg, left, has confirmed to MailOnline that she is working with Egan on a project. Berg was Oscar-nominated for her film on sex abuse in the Catholic Church, right

But she seemed surprised that Michael, 31, went going public with his claims this week after filing a damning lawsuit against Singer, 48.

A source close to Egan told MailOnline they had been approached by the film company, saying: ‘Just this week, I got a message from Disarming Films, a documentary film company working out of Los Angeles.

‘They said they are making a documentary about a bunch of children molested by somebody in the film industry. I never contacted them back. They wanted videos and pictures of Michael and a few others he knew.

‘The film company said they were working on numerous children, now adults, now coming forward about this.

‘I was close to Michael, but he didn’t confess any of this to me until 2012. I don’t know the specifics, what the person’s name was, I just knew that one of his close friends was in that whole scene with him.’

The source, who didn't want to be named, added: 'Michael has lots of psychological issues, he’s a messed up person. He told me all of his issues were down to this.’

Amy Berg is best known for her 2006 Oscar-nominated documentary Deliver Us From Evil, about sex abuse cases in the Roman Catholic Church, focusing on Oliver O’Grady, who abused many children in California in the late 1970s and early 1990s.

Disarming Films bills itself as producing documentaries focusing on social justice.

Miss Berg’s most recent film, West of Memphis, in 2012, was produced by Hobbit director Peter Jackson and documents the story of the West Memphis Three, who were convicted as teenagers of the 1993 murder of three boys in Arkansas.

It debuted to great critical acclaim and won numerous awards at film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival, where the film premiered in January 2012, and the Toronto International Film Festival.

When contacted by MailOnline, Miss Berg said she was not ready to comment on the project, confirming however, she had been working on the project for the past two years.

Allegations: X-Men director Bryan Singer has denied the claims of Egan, pictured right, when he was a teen, in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Hawaii. The case has sent shockwaves through the Hollywood elite

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

The filmmaker is currently in New York for the screening of her feature film debut, Every Secret Thing, which stars Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Banks, at the Tribeca Film Festival, where it has been labeled one of the must-seen movies.

The film concerns two girls who are locked away for seven years and a subsequent child abduction.

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

He claimed that 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. Rector-Collins was jailed in 2004 for sex abuse against minors.

'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.

'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.

'Paedophile ring': Egan claims he was first abused by Marc Collins-Rector, left, who was jailed in 2004 for luring minor across state lines for sexual acts, then went on to be abused by Singer

'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.'

It was yesterday revealed Egan had already filed a lawsuit over the alleged abuse 14 years ago - but failed to mention Singer.

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.

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

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.'

Mr Herman added other Hollywood power players were also abusing underage teens and that he would reveal more cases next week. He dubbed them 'pedophile 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.'

Egan added: 'My mom 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.

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

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.

Egan added at the press conference: '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. There was a policy of no clothes by the poolside area. I was a piece of meat to these people.'

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.'

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

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 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.

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

Shackley is yet to comment on the allegations.

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

Singer was yesterday back at work on his 4D musical film with stars including Hugh Jackman and Christina Aguilera.

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.';