Corey Feldman on Elijah Wood Hollywood Pedophilia Controversy: "I Would Love to Name Names con't"
If somebody came forward with a suit against one of these people [who molested me], I would certainly be more than happy to back them up. But that hasn’t happened.
Are these people still working in Hollywood?
One of them is. He’s still prominently in the business today.
And have you ever confronted him yourself or run into him?
We’ve run into each other many times but no, I’ve never confronted him.
Do you think this problem - adult males in the entertainment industry preying on young boys behind closed doors - still persists to the same extent in the current age of Instagram and Twitter, with everything being so much more open?
Oh, absolutely. It’s more now than ever because nowadays you can use the internet to create fake profiles and fake accounts. They reach out to little kids on Twitter, they reach out to little kids on Facebook, and they say, “I’m a big producer and I can help you.” With social media we have more access than ever to everybody. It’s a growing problem, not a shrinking problem.
An Open Secret details the men behind Digital Entertainment Network, who threw huge Hollywood parties where boys were being raped at gunpoint and being forced to do cocaine. Was that your experience - that they hunted in packs, so to speak?
Yes. I believe that Haim’s rapist was probably connected to something bigger and that is probably how he has remained protected for all these years. This person uses intimidation and threats as a way to keep people quiet. And all these men were all friends. Ask anybody in our group of kids at that time: They were passing us back and forth to each other. [Alison Arngrim] from Little House on the Prairie said [in an interview], “Everybody knew that the two Coreys were just being passed around.” Like it was something people joked about on studio lots. We’re not talking about huge executives and directors that I am aware of that were involved in this. The people that I knew doing it were publicists, they were photographers for teen magazines, things like that.
What did they do?
They would throw these parties where you’d walk in and it would be mostly kids and there would be a handful of adult men They would also be at the film awards and children’s charity functions.
What were the ages of the kids at these parties?
The range was usually 10 to 16. The lure for kids is that they work in adult world. All of their friends become adults and they very rarely get to interact with other kids, especially because they don’t go to school. So unless you happen to be on a movie like Goonies, where there are seven kids, for the most part you find yourself being the only kid on the set. You don’t get that interaction, which you crave so badly. So when somebody approaches you and says, “Hey, this is a Hollywood party where you get to hang out with the powerful people in Hollywood,” well that sounds like a great opportunity.
Was there alcohol at these parties?
I’m sure there was but I didn’t drink alcohol so I don’t think I was looking for that.
Boys and girls?
Boys and girls, yes.
And they’re being molested or raped at these parties?
I didn’t say that but I’m saying that’s -
You’re saying they’re groomed?
Exactly, that’s the networking and that’s when you become pals with them and you get their phone numbers and you get their mom’s phone numbers and the next thing you know they talk to the moms and say, “Hey, I want to take Corey out to an event, this would be great for him, let me pick him up and take him.” And they turn that power over right away to the publicist or the photographers.
Elijah Wood said that his mother wouldn’t let him go to parties and that’s why he avoided these experiences.
Exactly.
But in your case you didn’t have that protection.
Part of the time I was living with my mom and she was letting me go to the parties. And then the other part of the time was with my dad and those people were actually coming over to my apartment. There’s a picture in my book at my 15th birthday party. My father had the party at his office, which was a management company directly across the street from his apartment. One of the guys, the main guy who molested me, he actually was an employee of my father’s. My father hired this man and this man coaxed me into trying every single drug that I ever tried. He says, “Hey I’m going to be your best friend, I’ll take you to Disneyland, I’ll take you to the Comedy Store.” He was my assistant, my driver, my chaperone, and also basically my guardian.