X-Men director Bryan Singer accused of raping a 17-year-old boy

X-Men director Bryan Singer has been accused of raping a 17-year-old boy in 2003. The lawsuit, filed in Washington state, alleges that in 2003 Singer offered to give Cesar Sanchez-Guzman, 17, a tour of the yacht they were both on near Seattle.

It goes on to claim that once Singer had ‘lured’ Sanchez-Guzman into a room, Singer allegedly forced the teen to perform oral sex before later performing oral sex on Sanchez-Guzman. It then accuses Singer of ‘forcibly’ raping him. The yacht was owned by wealthy tech investor Lester Waters, as claimed in the lawsuit, and it also alleges that the party was attended by a number of young gay men.

Reps for Singer have been contacted by Metro.co.uk but they have not yet responded; reps told TMZ that Sanchez-Guzman’s lawyers was the same man who represented Michael Egan, who had previously accused Singer of sexual misconduct but then withdrew his claims.

‘Those claims were dismissed by Egan himself, and he later went to Federal prison for lying in a fraud case,’ the rep told TMZ. The accusations come days after Singer was fired by Twentieth Century Fox from their production of a Freddie Mercury biopic that only had two weeks left of shooting.

The decision came after reported clashes with lead actor Rami Malek and set no-shows. ‘Bryan Singer is no longer the director of Bohemian Rhapsody,’ Twentieth Century Fox said in a statement.

-Metro.co.uk