Link of the day: Investigation into Brian Singer's sexual abuse of adolescents

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We see this image of Singer - an unstable and unbalanced person who surrounded himself with vulnerable teenage boys, many of whom have lost touch with their family. Their stories hint that Singer did not act alone; He was helped by friends and acquaintances who brought young people to him. The industry, where production successes give tremendous power, also helped him, even if not so directly: many of our sources asked to remain anonymous, because they feared for their careers, even though they were terrified of the actions they had witnessed.

"Nobody Is Going to Believe You", The Atlantic

The Atlantic edition released an investigation of Nobody Is Going to Believe You, dedicated to the director of Bohemian Rhapsody (he was fired several weeks before the end of filming, and Dexter Fletcher was finishing the job), Suspicious Persons and several parts of X-Men Brian Singer. In it, four men publicly talk about relations with Singer for the first time when they were minors: some of them engaged in sex with Singer, others say that they were victims of harassment and violence. The incidents occurred in the late nineties, but the men did not tell anyone about them for many years - for each of them the clash with Singer became traumatic and led to grave consequences. The authors of the material claim that the director was often helped to get acquainted with the boys - many specifically brought under-age young people to him to earn trust and get closer; Often these acquaintances took place at parties that Singer's friends organized (one of them, Mark Collins-Rector, was convicted of sexually assaulting minors).

Singer himself denies all the charges (that the material is being prepared, he spoke back in October) and connects the time of publication with the success of the Bohemian Rhapsody at the box office. This is not the first such accusations against the director: for example, a few years ago, two men filed a lawsuit against him, accusing him of sexual abuse, when both were minors. Both cases were later discontinued. Anonymous sources in the material also say that Singer's victims were much more, but not everyone is ready to tell about it openly.

The material is not an easy fate. He was supposed to go to Esquire (authors of the publication Alex French and Maximilian Potter worked on it a year and interviewed fifty sources), but after the text was edited, the leaders of the Hearst publishing house canceled the publication. As a result, the text was released in The Atlantic.

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