Former child actor Michael Egan III, 31, and his lawyer, Jeff Herman, have brought a civil suit against X-Men director Bryan Singer, accusing him of numerous crimes committed in the late 1990s. Chief among those accusations are the repeated rape of Egan when he was between the ages of 15 and 17.

Egan says that at the age 15 his high-school classmate Scott Shackley took him to the M & C Estate in Encino California where his older brother Chad Shackley lived with his boyfriend, Marc Collins-Rector. The two were known to be Hollywood heavyweights and were principal investors in the company Digital Entertainment Network, of which Collins-Rector was chairman. The company had many prominent investors, among them, Bryan Singer.

The suit alleges that Collins-Rector was also the ringleader of a gay child sex party scene catered toward Hollywood elites, of which Singer was one.

Collins-Rector arranged for DEN to sign Egan for a variety of acting and modeling gigs, and Egan even moved onto the estate permanently. But Egan's real purpose was to be available for sex at gay parties on the estate. It was at such a party that he first met Bryan Singer.

Even though Egan identifies as heterosexual, Collins-Rector told Egan he had "gaydar" and was certain Egan was gay. Bryan Singer was present during this exchange, as well as when Collins-Rector threatened to harm Egan's family and end his career if Egan revealed the nature of the parties on the estate.

Once, when Egan protested about being forced to perform sexual acts with various influential men who attended the parties, Collins-Rector pushed him into the master bedroom, threatened him with a gun and locked him in a gun safe.

The abuse continued for months. On another occasion, Bryan Singer physically forced Egan to orally service him in a hot tub, then sodomized the 15 year old repeatedly.

Singer's demands for sex were always backed up by threats of violence from Collins-Rector. Egan was terrified of Marc Collins-Rector,