Hollywood Pedophilia Scandal: Did Democrats Know About Gay Donors?
Posted on | April 18, 2014 | 63 Comments
After Thursday’s report about director Bryan Singer, I got an e-mail tip from a reader that led to this American Spectator article:
Allegations that a film director raped a teenage boy could impact fundraising for Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, whose close ties to Hollywood’s gay community are potentially implicated in the scandal.
Bryan Singer, the openly gay director best known for the X-Men series of action films, has been accused in a lawsuit filed by a 31-year-old man who says he was 17 when Singer forcibly sodomized him in 1999. The plaintiff in that lawsuit, former model and actor Michael F. Egan III, describes attending Hollywood parties that “were typically sordid and featured sexual contact between adult males and the many teenage boys who were present for the parties.” According to the lawsuit, Singer attended the gay sex parties at the estate of Marc Collins-Rector, an entertainment entrepreneur who subsequently pleaded guilty to multiple crimes involving underage boys, and is now a registered sex offender.
“Since 2006 Bryan Singer has contributed at least $87,620 to Democratic candidates and committees,” the Daily Caller reported. “In 2006 and 2007 Singer contributed a combined total of $6,500 to Hillary Clinton’s campaigns, according to the Center for Responsive Politics’ Open Secrets. In 2011 and 2012 Singer contributed a combined $61,600 to the Democratic National Committee.”
Singer has also hosted notoriously raucous gay parties at the home of film director Roland Emmerich, the London Daily Mail reported. In a 2011 interview with the Advocate, a leading gay publication, Emmerich described how Singer invited hundreds of “twinks” — slang for very young gay men — to the annual pool parties at Emmerich’s Hollywood estate. The paper highlighted a photo showing scores of men frolicking in Emmerich’s swimming pool.
It was at Emmerich’s estate in June 2007 that Hillary Clinton attended an “LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) fundraiser event” for her Democrat presidential campaign. A description of the event: “The Senator first greeted the VIP guests in the upper section of the estate and then moved on to the pool area to address the approximately 250 supporters who have gathered to meet the former First Lady. Hillary Clinton’s main topic that night was the discrimination of gays and lesbians and their (mostly lost) rights, which she is fighting to restore.” That account described Emmerich’s estate: “The lush gardens and the unique building made a perfect backdrop for the presidential candidate and the many guests seemed to enjoy the privilege of setting foot on this private property.”
No one has accused Emmerich of involvement in the sexual misconduct alleged against Singer in Egan’s lawsuit, and an attorney for Singer dismissed Egan’s allegations as “without merit … absurd and defamatory.” However, Egan and his attorney Jeff Herman have suggested there was a larger network of gay pedophiles surrounding Collins-Rector, who Egan said repeatedly threatened him: “We control Hollywood and we will eliminate you.”
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Bryan Singer's gay pool party at Roland Emmerich's estate. pic.twitter.com/C4gZhfdjXq Emmerich hosted Hillary Clinton fundraiser there.
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BTW, I believe Hillary Clinton is *against* teenage boys getting butt-raped. But would she say so at a Roland Emmerich fundraiser?
Now, am I saying that every gay person in Hollywood is a pedophile, or that Democrats endorse the kind of activities alleged in Michael Egan’s lawsuit? Nothing of the kind.
What I am saying is that the Democrat Party has been collecting money to advance an agenda, and that some of the people providing that money are alleged to have an agenda of butt-raping teenage boys.
Even tonight, BuzzFeed’s Hunter Schwartz has reported an interesting fact: When three young men sued Collins-Rector in 2000, one of the plaintiffs was Alexander Burton, an actor who has appeared in exactly one movie: X-Men, directed by Bryan Singer.
Maybe that’s just a coincidence. And maybe not.
http://theothermccain.com/2014/04/18/hollywood-pedophilia-scandal-did-democrats-know-about-gay-donors/
Bryan Singer Sex Abuse Suit Will Be First Of Many, Says Attorney In Case Against “X-Men” Director“
You were a piece of meat,” said Michael Egan, who alleged Bryan Singer and others sexually abused him as a child. His attorney said there are Hollywood “pedophile rings,” and he plans to file three additional lawsuits next week. posted on April 17, 2014 at 6:13pm EDT
Hunter Schwarz BuzzFeed Staff posted about 2 days ago
Plaintiff Michael Egan (left) with his attorney, Jeff Herman take questions from to the media during a news conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., Thursday. AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes
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.
Bryan Singer on Oct 20, 2013. Angela Weiss / Getty Images for The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center
Egan was also allegedly sexually abused during trips to Hawaii with Collins-Rector, Singer, and other teenage boys and adult men in 1999 when he was 17 years old. During two specific trips mentioned in the suit, he was given drugs and alcohol by Singer and promised an acting role in an X-Men film, commercials, and other projects of Singer’s and others.
Herman said other trips between these adult men and teenage boys were taken to Las Vegas and Lake Havasu, Ariz.
According to the lawsuit, Egan was forced to consume alcohol and drugs and engage in sexual acts, which he “never freely, voluntarily, and knowingly consented to” at the parties, including one incident when Collins-Rector, a registered sex offender in Florida, allegedly put a gun up to Egan’s head when he refused to participate in sexual activity and threatened to pull the trigger. Egan was then locked in a gun safe in a bedroom, the suit states.
Egan said he told his mother when he was 17, who went to authorities, after two other teenage boys who were at the house had taken him “under their wings.” He said his mother contacted the Los Angeles Police Department, and an FBI agent eventually got involved, but nothing was done.
Egan said he recently began undergoing trauma therapy and sought out Herman for his work in other child sexual abuse cases.
“This goes from the bottom to the top of Hollywood,” Herman said. “This is a big problem. I do blame the industry in terms of not regulating itself.”
Herman said he has heard from “many people in the last 18 hours who were victims of sexual abuse in Hollywood and are talking about it for the first times in their lives.”
“I’ve seen some really vile things,” he said. “There are these pedophile rings that exist in Hollywood. What I intend to do is draw back a cloak and shine a light on this darkness.”
An attorney for Singer, Marty Singer, called the allegations, “completely fabricated.”
“We look forward to our bringing a claim for malicious prosecution against Mr Egan and his attorney after we prevail,” he said.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/hunterschwarz/more-sex-abuse-suits-will-be-filed-against-x-men-director-br |
