Buzzfeed reported that former NBC President Garth Ancier has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit aspiring actor Michael Egan has has filed against him, "X-Men" films director Bryan Singer and other Hollywood executives. Egan has since accused Ancier, Singer and the others of sexually abusing him when he was then a minor.
In his motion filed in a US District Court in Hawaii, Ancier insisted that he was too busy to commit to the crimes Egan has accused him of. According to Ancier's motion, he was named president of NBC in May 1999, and had been working with shows that summer, which means that the alleged sexual abuse that he was supposed to have done on Egan from July to September 1999 in Hawaii was impossible.
"Taking time off for two trips to Hawaii would have been virtual suicide," he wrote.
The motion also included three additional declarations from people who were close to Ancier and Egan. The three reportedly claimed under penalty of law that Ancier was physically not in Hawaii during the time Egan claimed to have been sexually abused. Two of the people who had made declarations for Ancier were his personal assistant at that time, Renate Radfrd, and Melvin Berman. Buzzfeed noted that Berman is the personal chef of Marc Collins-Rector, who incidentally is a registered sex offender and had been sued by Egan for sexual abuse in 2000.
Egan said in his 2000 lawsuit that Collins-Rector was the one who had allegedly organized the trips Ancier was supposedly on.
Muddling the already murky case is Egan's friend Chad Shackley, whom the former has accused of abusing him in the 2000 lawsuit. Buzzfeed obtained email exchanges wherein Shackley said that Egan had never mentioned about having engaged in any sexual activity with Ancier. Moreover, Shackley had said in the messages that he had never witnessed any sexual activity between Ancier and Egan. Oddly, the viral news site pointed out that Shackley did not recall Egan nor Ancier being on the Hawaii trips with him and Marc Collins-Rector.
Buzzfeed said Ancier is the last of the four men accused by Egan to file a motion to dismiss. David Neuman, who was a former digital video company executive, had filed a motion to dismiss two weeks ago. Singer and Broadway producer Gary Goddard followed suit last week.
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