Last night, Bryan Singer posted the above portrait of a pouty-lipped 18-year-old named Kodi Smit-McPhee to his Instagram account. Singer announced that Smit-McPhee won the role of Nightcrawler in Singer's upcoming X-Men Apoclaypse. Can you believe it?

One of the central figures in the sex abuse allegations against X-Men director Bryan Singer was Marc Collins-Rector, a registered sex offender and one-time Hollywood power player whose mansion was the site of alleged rapes. Collins-Rector hadn't been seen publicly since 2007, but his whereabouts were revealed today by Buzzfeed.

Michael Egan, the man who has accused four Hollywood power players—including X-Men director Bryan Singer—of raping him when he was a teenager, dropped one of the quartet of lawsuits today, according to the Los Angeles Times. The man no longer being targeted is David Neuman, a one-time executive at Disney and CNN.

Jeff Herman, the attorney representing Michael Egan and a man known only as John Doe in sexual abuse lawsuits against Hollywood executives, revealed evidence today that he says details the predatory relationship between X-Men director Bryan Singer, producer Gary Goddard and a then-14-year-old John Doe.

X-Men director Bryan Singer is not the only powerful gay man in Hollywood who likes to surround himself with handsome twinks. But according to a handful of sources who spoke with Gawker over the course of the last week, he was known as the most generous and active benefactor of a scene that allowed the young and impressionable to rub up against Hollywood elite—including prominent writers, directors and actors—leaving behind bitter memories and a sheaf of newly filed lawsuits.

Garth Ancier, the one-time executive at FOX, NBC, BBC, Disney and WB, has denied that he sexually assaulted Michael Egan, the Bryan Singer accuser who filed suit against Ancier and two others yesterday. Ancier's lawyer told TMZ that the allegations are "demonstrably untrue."

Michael Egan, the man who is accusing X-Men director Bryan Singer of raping him when he was 17 years old, filed three more lawsuits today alleging abuse by the following people: Garth Ancier, Gary Goddard and David Neuman.

X-Men director Bryan Singer strenuously denies that he drugged and raped a 17-year-old in 1998, and claims he has evidence to prove that he wasn't even in Hawaii at the time the assault is said to have been taken place there. But the accusation has opened the floodgates of stories, memories, rumors and gossip—much of which landed in our inboxes over the last two days. Welcome to the Bryan Singer sex party mailbag.

Michael Egan, the man who is suing director Bryan Singer for allegedly raping him at the age of 17, filed a lawsuit in 2000 stemming from the same 1999 parties where he says Singer assaulted him. But in that previous lawsuit, Egan did not name Singer as a defendant.

The news that X-Men director Bryan Singer is being sued by a man who says Singer raped him multiple times when he was 17 might come as a surprise to some—but in Hollywood his taste for a very specific sort of young man was well known.