We spent 12 months investigating various lawsuits and allegations against Singer. As one prominent actor told us, “After the Harvey Weinstein news came out, everyone thought Bryan Singer would be next.” These allegations were so well known that 4,000 students, faculty members, and alumni at the University of Southern California had signed a petition asking the school to take Singer’s name off one of its programs, the Bryan Singer Division of Cinema and Media Studies-which the school did immediately after Sanchez-Guzman filed his suit. Almost from the moment his star began to rise, Singer, who is now 53, has been trailed by allegations of sexual misconduct.
Still, Sanchez-Guzman’s claims shouldn’t have been much of a surprise. The day after that, Deadline Hollywood published an interview with a former boyfriend of Singer’s, Bret Tyler Skopek, in which Skopek described a lifestyle of drugs and orgies.Īccording to multiple sources, Fox had no idea that the Sanchez-Guzman lawsuit was coming when the studio fired Singer. On December 7, 2017, three days after The Hollywood Reporter broke the news of Singer’s firing, a Seattle man named Cesar Sanchez-Guzman filed a lawsuit against the director, alleging that Singer had raped him in 2003, when Sanchez-Guzman was 17.
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