TORONTO — Director Bryan Singer will reportedly claim he could not have sexually assaulted a teen boy in Hawaii because he was in Canada at the time.
TMZ reported Friday that Singer can prove he was working on the first X-Men movie in Toronto on the dates Michael Egan III claims Singer assaulted him at an estate in Hawaii.
In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, Egan alleged he was given drugs and alcohol and forced into sex with Singer in early August and late October 1999.
But, according to TMZ, Singer was in Toronto for pre-production of X-Men in August 1999 and then busy with principal photography of the movie in October.
The website claims Singer will produce credit card receipts and other documents proving he was in Canada at the time of the alleged assaults.
The first X-Men movie was shot in Toronto from Sept. 22 to March 3.
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Egan, now 31, is seeking unspecified damages from Singer, whom he accuses of sexual assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy by unreasonable intrusion.
“Singer promised acting roles to Plaintiff in an X-Men movie, in commercials, and in other of his projects, and professed that he would arrange for Plaintiff to audition for roles and projects in others’ productions,” the lawsuit claims.
Singer is accused of repeatedly fondling and performing oral sex on Egan, then 17, while in Hawaii. He is also accused of forcing anal sex on the teen.
Singer’s attorney Marty Singer (no relation) said in a statement the claims are absurd and defamatory.
None of the allegations have been tested in a court of law.
Bryan Singer spent last summer in Montreal making X-Men: Days of Future Past, which opens May 23.
In 1997, Singer was accused of invasion of privacy after three boys, aged 14 to 17, said they were coerced into appearing naked in a shower scene for his movie Apt Pupil.
The Los Angeles District Attorney declined to file criminal charges because the nudity was not filmed with “lewd or abnormal intent” and a civil lawsuit against Singer was subsequently dismissed.
Singer, 48, has had a lengthy career behind the camera, directing several movies including The Usual Suspects, Superman Returns and Jack the Giant Slayer.
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