LOS ANGELES — The attorney in a lawsuit alleging X-Men director Bryan Singer sexually abused a teenage boy said it's the first of several that will be released next week in hopes of ending "pedophile rings" he said exist in Hollywood.

"Hollywood's got a problem," said Jeff Herman, attorney for Michael Egan, the alleged victim, at a press conference. "Since filing this lawsuit yesterday, I've heard from many people who allege that as children in Hollywood, they've been abused."

At least three other lawsuits will be filed next week, Herman said.

"Obviously, there's other alleged perpetrators," he said. "They will be named. The ones who committed abuses in Hawaii will be named next week in lawsuits."

Singer's attorney said Thursday that the allegations are "completely without merit."

Herman said the timing of the lawsuit had nothing to do with the release of X-Men: Days of Future Past, which will be released May 23, but was due to the statute of limitations in Hawaii. The suit had to be filed by April 24, he said.

A lawsuit filed against Singer Wednesday in a federal court in Hawaii accuses the X-Men director of sexually abusing and exploiting Egan. According to the suit, Egan was introduced to Singer at parties hosted by Marc Collins-Rector, chairman of the board of directors of Digital Entertainment Network, or DEN, at an Encino, Calif., mansion.

The suit alleges the parties were "well-known and notorious among many men in the Hollywood entertainment industry" and involved drugs, alcohol, and sexual activity between teenage boys and adult men. Egan was told the adult males who attended these parties "controlled Hollywood and would destroy his hopes and dreams of an acting career if he did not keep them happy," and if he ever disclosed what happened at the parties, he would be "destroyed," the suit states.

"You were a piece of meat," Egan said at the press conference. "I was raped numerous times in that house by numerous individuals." He said he was 15 years old when he began going to the house.