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A man who has accused X-Men director BryanSinger of sexually abusing him when he was a teen sued three more entertainment-industry figures Monday, claiming they also molested him. The allegations in the latest lawsuits filed by Michael Egan III are substantially similar to his legal action against Singer. That lawsuit accuses the director of abusing him between the ages of 15 and 17 in Los Angeles and Hawaii. Monday’s lawsuits were filed in federal court in Hawaii against former Fox television executive Garth Ancier, theater producer Gary Wayne Goddard and David Neuman, a former television executive with Current TV and Disney. Alan Grodin, an attorney for Goddard, said the executive was out of the country and had not seen the lawsuit. “Based on what we have heard, the allegations are without merit,” Grodin wrote in a statement. “Once we have seen the complaint we will respond appropriately.” Ancier did not respond to phone and email messages seeking comment. Neuman could not be reached for comment. Singer’s attorney, Marty Singer, has denied the director abused Egan, calling the allegations defamatory. None of the men has been criminally charged, and the statute of limitations for any such charges has passed.

Relatives of David Foster Wallace say they’re opposed to the coming film The End of the Tour, which is based on David Lipsky’s 2010 book Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace. In his book, Lipsky recounts accompanying Wallace, the author best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, on his book tour. Production on The End of the Tour, written by Donald Margulies, directed by James Ponsoldt and starring Jason Segel as Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as Lipsky, wrapped in late March. Lawyers for Wallace’s family and literary trust said in a news release Monday that they “have no connection with, and neither endorse nor support” the film. They add that “the trust was given no advance notice that this production was underway” and the film “is loosely based on transcripts from an interview David consented to 18 years ago for a magazine article. … That article was never published and David would have never agreed that those saved transcripts could later be repurposed as the basis of a movie.” The estate prefers Wallace, who killed himself in 2008, be “remembered for his extraordinary writing.”