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Comments (0)Child molestation runs rampant and unchecked in Tinseltown, says ex-child star Corey Feldman (“The Goonies,” “Gremlins,” “Dream a Little Dream”).
“The number one problem in Hollywood was and is—and always will be—pedophilia,” he said recently on “Nightline.” “I was surrounded by [pedophiles] when I was 14 years old. … Didn’t even know it. It wasn’t until I was old enough to realize what they were and what they wanted … ‘til I went, `Oh, my God.’ They were everywhere.”
Feldman says that the old “casting couch” system that thrived for buxom and nubile starlets still exists for children. “It’s all done under the radar,” says Feldman, 40, a former pal of the late Michael Jackson. “But it’s the big secret.”
He claims that the substance addiction issues that paved the way for the death last year of 38-year-old Corey Haim, his friend and former “The Two Coreys” co-star, was the result of sexual abuse by an unnamed powerful “Hollywood mogul.” (Feldman won’t ID the creep. “That person needs to be exposed, but unfortunately I can’t be the one to do it,” he says, cryptically.)
“[There are] a lot of good people in this industry,” says Feldman, “but there’s also a lot of really, really sick, corrupt people. And there are people ... who have gotten away with it for so long that they feel they’re above the law, and that’s got to change.”