July 31, 2014
Lawyers for Hollywood Sex-Abuse Accuser Want Out
Bobby McGuire READ TIME: 1 MIN.
HONOLULU - Lawyers for a former child model accusing 'X-Men' director Bryan Singer of sex abuse said Tuesday they want to get off the case because their relationship with the accuser has deteriorated.
Attorneys Jeff Herman and Mark Gallagher filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Honolulu asking to withdraw as counsel for Michael Egan III. They say they no longer talk to Egan except through a new lawyer.
Egan, now 31, accuses Singer in a lawsuit of sexually abusing him during trips to Hawaii when he was 17 in 1999. Singer has denied the allegations.
The California law firm cited in the filing as representing Egan declined to comment.
