Though nearly everyone we talked to affirmed that Singer is careful about the ages of boys he sleeps with, it's not hard for, say, a 17-year-old to get his attention. But more than anything else what comes across in conversations with sources is the scene's sadness: another stage on which an aggressive, alienating Hollywood social scene plays itself out. After all, gender aside, the mogul-hosted party filled with willing-to-please ingenues is older even than Hollywood. The twink-party scene of which Singer was a fixture is at once troubling and deeply familiar scandalous and unsurprising. The director Roland Emmerich threw a well-documented pride pool party, photos of which penetrated even the non-Hollywood gossip blogs a few years ago.Īnd why wouldn't an ambitious young actor want to attend? A twink might hear whisperings of boys who fucked their way to the top-Taylor Lautner, two sources told us, carries an unconfirmed reputation amongst the West Hollywood chatterati of having used Singer as a launching pad ( and has been spotted at a Singer party).īut it's far from that simple. for having the same taste in men as Singer and who frequented his parties years ago. One might run into actor Kevin Spacey-who was spotted years ago partying with Singer and a group of boys by one source, a security guard who worked at the Chateau Marmont-or screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, who is notorious in L.A.
Executives like Ancier and Neumann hosted the same crowd as Singer at their own homes a decade ago, according to a gossip blogger named Lucas John who often attended the gatherings. It's a scene, our sources said, in which a good-looking young person can easily ingratiate himself with the legitimately powerful. All four have strenuously denied the accusations, but Egan's lawsuits have exposed a culture that was previously visible only to insiders in and around L.A., especially within the gay enclave of West Hollywood.
That litigation comes from a man named Michael Egan, who says that he was sexually assaulted by four men- Bryan Singer, Garth Ancier, Gary Goddard and David Neumann-when he was 17. But according to a handful of sources who spoke with Gawker over the course of the last week, he was known as the most generous and active benefactor of a scene that allowed the young and impressionable to rub up against Hollywood elite-including prominent writers, directors and actors-leaving behind bitter memories and a sheaf of newly filed lawsuits. X-Men director Bryan Singer is not the only powerful gay man in Hollywood who likes to surround himself with handsome twinks.