Bryan Singer Settles Sexual Assault Lawsuit For $150,000, Denies Allegations

Bryan Singer has settled a lawsuit filed against him over sexual assault allegations and denied that he even knows the plaintiff. TMZ reports that Singer has settled the lawsuit by Cesar Sanchez-Guzman for $150,000. Sanchez-Guzman filed the suit in 2017, claiming that Singer forced him to perform oral sex when he was seventeen during a yacht party in Seattle in 2003 and then raped him. The legal filings show that a bankruptcy trustee asked the court to approve the $150,000 settlement. Sanchez-Guzman had filed for bankruptcy, which meant a judge had to approve it.

Singer has been at the center of several allegations of sexual assault over the years, most recently in January when The Atlantic released an investigative report detailing the claims of four men who accuse the director of sexually abusing them when they were underage.

Singer’s lawyer told TMZ, “Mr. Singer has denied even knowing this individual, let alone allegedly having interacted with him more than 15 years ago. The decision to resolve the matter with the bankruptcy trustee was purely a business one, as litigation costs would well exceed the amount requested by the trustee to pay off the creditors who were owed money when the debtor filed for bankruptcy.”