Film director Bryan Singer has denied sexual assault after being sued for allegedly raping a 17-year-old boy.<\/p>\n
According to court filings\u00a0obtained by Deadline, Cesar Sanchez-Guzman has alleged he was sexually assaulted by the director on a yacht in 2003.<\/p>\n
In a statement, a representative for Singer said the director “categorically denies these allegations”.<\/p>\n
It comes in the same week that Singer was fired as director of the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody.<\/p>\n
The court filings say the alleged assault happened when Singer gave Sanchez-Guzman a tour of the boat.<\/p>\n
“During this tour, Bryan Singer lured Cesar into a room, shut the door and demanded that Cesar perform oral sex. When plaintiff refused, Bryan Singer forced him into acts of oral and anal sex,” the filing claims.<\/p>\n
‘Vehement’ defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Sanchez-Guzman is seeking compensation for damages including “emotional distress, mental anguish, physical and mental pain and suffering, a decrease in his ability to enjoy life” as well as past and future medical expenses and legal costs.<\/p>\n Singer’s representative said: “Cesar Sanchez-Guzman apparently claims that he did not remember this alleged incident from 2003 until now.”<\/p>\n He added: “Bryan categorically denies these allegations and will vehemently defend this lawsuit to the very end.”<\/p>\n The representative said that, “once Bryan prevails”, he will pursue claims for malicious prosecution.<\/p>\n Production of Bohemian Rhapsody was\u00a0suspended\u00a0last week so Singer could deal with what his representative described as “a personal health matter concerning Bryan and his family”.<\/p>\n Film studio Twentieth Century Fox told the BBC work had been halted “due to the unexpected unavailability” of Singer.<\/p>\n Days later, it emerged that he had been\u00a0fired\u00a0by the company for “unreliable behaviour”, and has been replaced by Eddie The Eagle director Dexter Fletcher.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Film director Bryan Singer has denied sexual assault after being sued for allegedly raping a 17-year-old boy. According to court filings\u00a0obtained by Deadline, Cesar Sanchez-Guzman has alleged he was sexually assaulted by the director on a yacht in 2003. In a statement, a representative for Singer said the director “categorically denies these allegations”. It comes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":381357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[15297,3],"class_list":["post-381351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-bryan-singer","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/381357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}