During the awards ceremony where Rami Malek received best actor at the Golden Globes, the actor who played the leader of the emblematic band Queen omitted from his thanks to the director of the film, Bryan Singer, which powerfully drew the attention from journalists due to the terrible accusations that arose about the undue sexual behavior of the filmmaker in the past.
Now, the director of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” faces new accusations which were published in the Atlantic on Wednesday. It states that he committed inappropriate sexual behavior with minors. In the report, four men allege that Singer had sexual encounters with them when they were teenagers in the late 1990s. One of the men, Víctor Valdovinos, says he was an extra and only 13 years of age on the set of “Apt Pupil Pupil” when Singer stroked his genitals.
The other three accusers are identified in the story with pseudonyms. One, identified in the story as Andy, says he had sex with Singer when he was 15 years old. Another man, identified as Eric, says he was 17 when he started having sex with the director. The singer would have been 31 years old at that time. The third man, Ben, alleges that he and Singer had oral sex when he was 17 or 18 years old.
“He would put his hands in your pants without consent,” the man told Atlantic. “He was a predator in the sense that he harassed people with alcohol and drugs and then had sex with them.” Singer’s lawyer, Andrew Brettler, denied to the magazine that Singer had had sexual relations with minors, and disputed several details of the prosecutors’ accounts.
Singer was fired two weeks before the end of the production of “Bohemian Rhapsody” in December 2017. The film received five Oscar nominations on Tuesday, including best film and best actor for Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury. However, he remains the accredited director, but was not nominated. Next, he is scheduled to direct “Red Sonja” for Millennium Films.
The authors of the Atlantic article, Alex French and Maximillian Potter, spoke with 50 sources in the course of a 12-month investigation. French and Potter are affiliated with Esquire, French as a writer in general and Potter as a publisher in particular. Initially it was expected that the article would appear in that magazine. On October 15, Singer posted on Instagram that Esquire was looking to write a negative article about him.
