“Very chill, very relaxed-I never saw anyone doing drugs openly. There was usually a bartender making drinks. It felt like any kind of Friday night hangout, to be honest.” I remember a hot tub that could have held, like, 20 people. Singer’s pool parties have been a topic of discussion in gay entertainment circles for years.
Some parties, co-hosted with fellow out director Roland Emmerich, have featured more than a thousand celebrants. Emmerich told The Advocate, “when makes a New Year’s party, there’s like 600, 700 twinks running around and he’s hiding in his room. That’s quite typical.” Emmerich estimates that the last party they hosted, in 2009, drew 1,200 guests.ĭottley attended his first “Bryan Singer Party” in the summer of 1999, at age 19. It was over the course of this same summer that some of Egan’s most damning claims allegedly took place: That on a trip to the Hawaii estate of hair care tycoon Paul Mitchell, Singer drugged him with cocaine, forced him to perform oral sex in a hot tub, and raped him beside a pool. “Everyone knew Bryan Singer liked his boys younger,” according to Dottley. “The age range was really tight between 18 and 21. We’d all joke about ‘aging out’ of Bryan Singer’s parties-he had a very narrow window.” As far as underage attendees, Dottley remains adamant that 18 was the cutoff point.
