On Tuesday, former actor Michael Egan has filed another complaint of sexual abuse against an anonymous defendant. Buzzfeed said Egan's claims were similar to the charges he has lodged against "X-Men" director Bryan Singer and several Hollywood executives.
The complaint, which was filed in US District Court for the Central District of California, claimed that an unnamed executive at early Internet firm Digital Entertainment Network had raped Egan repeatedly when he was still a minor. The complaint had identified the defendant as "the President of DEN."
According to Egan's latest complaint, the defendant had paid the former actor an undisclosed sum of money during and after the alleged sexual assault. Egan argued that the payments made to him had constituted as "partial or advanced damages" for the sexual assault he has received from the defendant as a minor.
Buzzfeed noted that under the Insurance Code of California, people who make such payments are required to inform their victims of the statute of limitations applicable for a potential lawsuit that could be lodged against them. In the complaint, Egan said the defendant had not informed him of the statute of limitations, and that the omission of key information has tolled the statute of limitations continuously for when he could bring the sexual assault lawsuit against his abuser.
State law contends that a person could bring charges of underage sexual assault up to eight years after they passed the federal age limit to be declared a minor, or their 26th birthday. Buzzfeed said that the lawsuit might have been an attempt to remedy the challenge on his lawsuits he has brought up against Singer and others, as Egan is already 32 years of age when he lodged the complaints against the Hollywood bigwigs.
On the other hand, the description of the defendant is interesting considering that Former Walt Disney TV President David Neuman had that title once, according to a Variety article. Egan had dropped his complaint against Neuman after a documented sworn testimony from a separate lawsuit had the actor declaring that he had never been abused by the Hollywood executive.
