Second man comes forward to accuse X-Men director Bryan Singer

A second man has stepped forward
claiming Bryan Singer sexually abused
him when he was a minor

Smiling broadly for the cameras at the 2006 premiere of Superman Returns, director Bryan Singer wraps his arm around the British teenager who filed a lawsuit on Monday alleging that the Hollywood heavyweight sexually assaulted him.

Now aged 25, the British man accuses X-Men director Bryan Singer of sexually abusing him when he was 17 at a London hotel along with Broadway producer Gary Goddard.

Holding the pictures up to the media today at a Los Angeles press conference, the unidentified man's attorney, Jeff Herman, said that his client was spurred to bring a lawsuit against the filmmaker after Singer was sued by another man on similar allegations.

The lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles said that Singer, 48, and entertainment industry executive Gary Goddard, 59, coerced the British man into sex acts as a minor with the promise of helping him in an acting career. The man was not identified in court papers.

This is the second lawsuit naming Singer ahead of the May 23 release of his film X-Men: Days of Future Past, which is expected to be one of the year's top grossing movies.  (more...)

Second man comes forward to accuse X-Men director Bryan Singer