Hollywood child sex ring ‘is decades old’

LOS Angeles police are investigating allegations that a paedophile ring has been preying on young actors in Hollywood for decades.

Corey Feldman, now 46, says he and fellow actor Corey Haim were sexually assaulted as youngsters. He alleges that Haim, who became a drug addict in later life and died in 2010, was raped by a man when he was just 11.

Feldman last week identified his abusers as his former assistant Jon Grissom, an ex-actor who served prison time for another child molestation case, and ex-child talent manager Marty Weiss, who is also a convicted paedophile. Feldman vowed to name more abusers in future. Grissom denies his claims while Weiss hasn’t commented.

The British-born star of the Gossip Girl series, Ed Westwick, is being investigated by US police on suspicion of raping an actress. Kristina Cohen, 27, says he attacked her at his Hollywood home in 2014. Westwick denies the allegations.