Bryan Singer paying surrogate $1 million for child

By Alexandra Heilbron on October 23, 2014 | 3 Comments


bryan_singer1X-Men director Bryan Singer, who was accused of sexually assaulting an underage boy earlier this year, is believed to be paying a woman $1 million to have his child, according to a report in The Daily Mail. The woman is actress Michelle Clunie, 44, who played Melanie on the TV series Queer as Folk from 2000 to 2005. Singer, 49, reportedly purchased a home close to his own for Michelle. Singer earlier identified himself as bisexual in an interview with Out magazine, though he clarified: “I emotionally lean towards male relationships, so I’m happy to say I’m gay, too, if it’s a one-syllable, easy answer.”

Last June, Singer’s legal team offered his accuser, Michael Egan, $100,000 to drop the charges. According to New York Magazine, Egan declined the offer, telling BuzzFeed: “This exact kind of take-it-and-shut-up deal is why I decided to stand up in the first place. Being silenced goes completely against what I believe in and offers no protection for other vulnerable children.”

However, Singer’s lawyer, Marty Singer (no relation) threatened to sue Egan’s lawyer, Jeff Herman, for malicious prosecution, and when Egan refused the settlement, Herman dropped the lawsuit. Singer also asked the court that Egan pay his legal fees, but his request was declined. Egan, who has also been threatened with a countersuit, is now looking to refile his sexual abuse suit against Singer with a new lawyer.



Comments & Discussion

  1. margret • October 23, 2014 @ 1:35 PM

    One would be concerned about the safety/future of a child, any child, with this man.

  2. Ryan • October 24, 2014 @ 9:14 AM

    I hope it’s not a boy.

  3. Rod • October 24, 2014 @ 3:04 PM

    Why hasn’t he been fired from X-Men? Stephen Collins, who only admitted to a teenage girl touching his private part once over 40 years ago, is fired from everything, but this guy, who’s been accused of sodomizing a teenage boy and trying to force him to perform oral sex on him, and settled out of court with other accusers (but not this guy, who wants to see Singer in jail where he belongs), instead gets applause that he’s having a kid with a “friend”? Obviously Singer is a pedophile who is growing his own plaything.


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