Follow-up to this post. Abuse allegations have followed Singer to such an extent and for such a long time that his name started trending when Kevin Spacey's name did.
Well, isn't that slightly awkward.
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Recently, Asia Argento and Jessica Chastain called out Singer on Twitter.
Despite these call-outs and despite Singer being referenced in "An Open Secret", he currently appears to be untouchable. Fresh allegations against him haven't surfaced. There might be multiple reasons for that if you follow news about him closely.
Julia Breakey wrote an excellent article about disappearing Singer allegations on memeburn. She notes how tweets detailing an alleged sexual assault were removed:
Breakey linked to a gif which visualizes the deletions.
I noticed that Singer's Wikipedia page was also altered. Previously, there had been a section titled "Sexual Abuse Allegations". This section was shortened and rewritten recently and is now titled the much more ambiguous "Controversies":
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You might ask yourself why Singer's team appears to shield him successfully from allegations when so many other well-known Hollywood insiders have been openly accused.
One theory - and to be clear, we ARE dealing in theories and rumors here - is that Singer is too big to fail. He's both a commercially successful and critically acclaimed director as well as producer, and Hollywood hates to seewhite male talent go to waste. He's working with 20th Century Fox on Bohemian Rhapsody and X-Men: Dark Phoenix, to name just two of his projects.
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Another theory is my personal pet theory and a little more insidious. Maybe Singer isn't protected of what he does, but rather because of who he knows, and what he knows about them. The list of his known associates is an illustrious one.
To recap, people who have been rumored to associate with Singer:
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Forget the NYT, where's MY Pulitzer!
Well, isn't that slightly awkward.
Attention Circles Back Onto Director Bryan Singer's Past Sexual Assault Allegations https://t.co/1TM0ybX7e2
— Asia Argento (@AsiaArgento) November 4, 2017
Let us not forget https://t.co/0TNDxl8h1Q
— Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) November 4, 2017
If a victim gets cease&desist letter for reporting sexual harassment odds are its intimidation. Last thing they want is a discovery process.
— Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) November 4, 2017
Despite these call-outs and despite Singer being referenced in "An Open Secret", he currently appears to be untouchable. Fresh allegations against him haven't surfaced. There might be multiple reasons for that if you follow news about him closely.
- 1) First off, Singer's team allegedly slaps anyone with a Cease & Desist who even thinks about printing something about the allegations against him.
(Don't you dare come for me though, the ACLU has ONTD's back). - 2) Second, a whole lot of allegations have recently been scrubbed from the internet, like this Yahoo article:
.@YahooEnt Why was your article on sexual assault allegations against Bryan Singer pulled down? (And FYI, the cached page is still visible.) pic.twitter.com/SBzuxkJ1nV
— ZacharySire (@ZacharySire) November 3, 2017
Julia Breakey wrote an excellent article about disappearing Singer allegations on memeburn. She notes how tweets detailing an alleged sexual assault were removed:
Bryan Singer, you next. --> READ @Justin_C_Smith's feed. Maybe this time, enough people will come forward that something is actually done. pic.twitter.com/f5IrOTdIZo
— Larissa Thomas (@larissa_thomas) November 1, 2017
Breakey linked to a gif which visualizes the deletions.
I noticed that Singer's Wikipedia page was also altered. Previously, there had been a section titled "Sexual Abuse Allegations". This section was shortened and rewritten recently and is now titled the much more ambiguous "Controversies":
You might ask yourself why Singer's team appears to shield him successfully from allegations when so many other well-known Hollywood insiders have been openly accused.
One theory - and to be clear, we ARE dealing in theories and rumors here - is that Singer is too big to fail. He's both a commercially successful and critically acclaimed director as well as producer, and Hollywood hates to see
Another theory is my personal pet theory and a little more insidious. Maybe Singer isn't protected of what he does, but rather because of who he knows, and what he knows about them. The list of his known associates is an illustrious one.
To recap, people who have been rumored to associate with Singer:
- Gary Goddard: see previous post
- David Neuman: see previous post
- Garth Ancier: see previous post
- Marc Collins-Rector: see previous post
- Dustin Lance-Black: see previous post
- David Geffen: Geffen, who is worth about US$6.5 billion, founded Asylum Records as well as Geffen Records, and co-founded DreamWorks SKG. Geffen was also an investor in DEN. Recently, McGowan released a cryptic tweet directed at Kevin Spacey, Bryan Singer, Garth Ancier and David Geffen.
- Simon Halls: Simon Halls is a founder and a partner at SLATE PR. He is Bryan Singer's publicist. An anonymous source hinted that it was Simon Halls who advised Singer to have a baby with a woman (which he did) and come out as bisexual ["I'm quite bisexual. In the last five years, I've had two girlfriends—one for two years, one for eight months... In the end, it's probably going to be a guy. I emotionally lean towards male relationships, so I'm happy to say I'm gay, too, if it's a one-syllable, easy answer."]. We're entirely in the realm of rumors with this one though, so take it with a grain of salt.
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Forget the NYT, where's MY Pulitzer!