{"id":13922,"date":"2017-12-07T22:29:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T06:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/x-men-director-bryan-singer-accused-of-sexual-assault\/"},"modified":"2017-12-07T22:29:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T06:29:02","slug":"x-men-director-bryan-singer-accused-of-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/x-men-director-bryan-singer-accused-of-sexual-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"'X-Men' Director Bryan Singer Accused Of Sexual Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Director Bryan Singer poses for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film X-Men Apocalypse<\/em> in London, in May of last year.<\/p>\n

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Editor’s note: This story includes explicit language describing alleged sexual assaults.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bryan Singer, the director best known for the X-Men<\/em> series of films, is being sued for allegedly raping a 17-year-old boy during a party 14 years ago.<\/p>\n

Singer has denied the accusation.<\/p>\n

In a complaint<\/a> filed in Superior Court of the State of Washington for King County on Thursday, plaintiff Cesar Sanchez-Guzman says that he met Singer in 2003 at a party aboard a yacht owned by technology investor Lester Waters, who the complaint says “frequently hosted parties for young gay males in the Seattle area.”<\/p>\n

Guzman alleges that Singer, while giving him a tour of the yacht, lured him into the yacht’s master stateroom, shut the door and demanded oral sex.<\/p>\n

When Cesar refused, “Singer forced him into acts of oral and anal sex,” according to the complaint. Cesar says he repeatedly pleaded for Singer to stop.<\/p>\n

“Later … Singer approached Cesar and told him that he was a producer in Hollywood and that he could help Cesar get into acting as long as Cesar never said anything about the incident,” according to the complaint. “He then told Cesar that no one would believe him if he ever reported the incident, and that he could hire people who are capable of ruining someone’s reputation.”<\/p>\n