Los Angeles: 'X Men' director Bryan Singer has been sued for allegedly sexually abusing an underage boy in 1999. In the lawsuit filed in federal court in Hawaii yesterday, the plaintiff named Michael Egan claimed that the director, 48, sexually molested him at a house in Encino when he was 17-year-old, reported Ace Showbiz.

Egan, who was an aspiring actor and model back then, alleged that Bryan provided him alcoholic drinks and drugs including cocaine. "Hollywood has a problem with the sexual exploitation of children.