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TV executive Garth Ancier countersues sex abuse accuser
LOS ANGELES
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Garth Ancier is seen in this file photo taken in Pasadena, California July 29, 2009.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood television executive Garth Ancier filed a malicious-prosecution lawsuit on Friday against a former teenage actor who just two days earlier had dropped a lawsuit accusing him of sexual abuse in the late 1990s.
Ancier, who has worked for Fox and NBC, sued Michael Egan and his attorneys Jeff Herman and Michael Gallagher, alleging abuse of process, documents filed in a Hawaii court show.
Egan, 31, in April sued Ancier and three other Hollywood executives - "X-Men" director Bryan Singer, TV executive David Neuman and entertainment firm executive Gary Goddard - accusing them of sexually abusing him in Hawaii when he was an aspiring teenage actor.
All four denied the claims and filed motions to dismiss. Egan filed voluntary dismissals of his lawsuits against Neuman and Ancier this month, but Singer and Goddard's cases are still pending. [ID:nL2N0P71TB]
Ancier's lawsuit requests a jury trial to determine the charges and damages caused to his reputation and business from Egan's claims. It asserts that neither he nor Egan was in Hawaii at the time of the alleged abuses.
Egan and his attorneys, who hosted high profile press conferences in Los Angeles after filing the initial lawsuits in April, did not respond to requests for comment on Friday.
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Royand; Editing by Richard Chang)
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