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   From: ojoi@glaad.org   
      
   Michael F. Egan, the 31-year old plaintiff who sued Bryan Singer   
   last week for sexual abuse for events that occurred when he was   
   15, came forward again Monday to file similar charges against   
   three additional men: former president of BBC Worldwide America   
   Garth Ancier, former president of Disney TV David Neuman, and   
   Gary Goddard, a designer who created theme park attractions for   
   Universal Studios.   
      
   None of the new defendants have yet responded to the suit.   
      
   Egan’s lawyer Jeff Herman presented the claims Monday during a   
   press conference held in Beverly Hills. He was seated alongside   
   Egan and Egan’s mother, Bonnie Mound, who thanked the press for   
   attending the event and defended her actions as a parent,   
   sometimes becoming emotional during the proceedings.   
      
   “Fourteen years ago, no one would have been here,” she said. “I   
   wrote every news organization, from Oprah to 20/20… I wrote   
   hundred of letters to attorneys. No one wanted to do anything.”   
      
   Last week, Singer’s lawyer Marty Singer called the initial suit,   
   filed a bit over a month ahead of the director’s latest project,   
   X-Men: Days of Future Past, “absurd and defamatory” and has   
   threatened to countersue Egan and Herman for defamation.   
      
   The director bowed out of this past weekend’s WonderCon   
   convention held in Anaheim. (Producer/writer Simon Kinberg   
   attended in his stead to show off clips from the upcoming X-Men   
   movie.)   
      
   Singer also canceled an upcoming MPAA symposium he was scheduled   
   to attend in Washington, D.C., with Vice President Joe Biden   
   early next month. And his name has been removed from television   
   promos advertising the new ABC show Black Box, which Singer   
   executive produced.   
      
   Whether other charges will be filed remains to be seen. Attorney   
   Herman called the incidents part of a “Hollywood sex ring” and   
   both he and Egan encouraged other victims to come forward.   
      
   Said one Hollywood insider of the case: “It’s not going to go   
   away. This is a perfect storm of bad behavior, a movie coming   
   out and a real, live person who is willing to put his face to   
   it. This has the makings of something bigger.”   
      
   http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/04/21/bryan-singer-accuser-names-   
   three-more-hollywood-executives/   
      
       
      
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