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  • former child star Elijah Wood says Hollywood has a seedy underbelly of child sex abuse and that those responsible are being protected by the entertainment industry elite.

  • Would, who's been acting since he was eight, told The Sunday Times.

  • There are a lot of vipers in this industry.

  • People who only have their own interests in mind would compared the unnamed abusers to the British D.

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  • Jimmy Saville, who faced dozens of accusations of rape and assault spanning more than four decades.

  • Those claims were largely swept under the rug until after Saville's death.

  • It's important to note that Woods claims are unsubstantiated, but other child stars from the same era have made similar accusations in the past.

  • In 2011 Corey Feldman said he and other child stars in the eighties were abused by people with a lot of power in the entertainment industry.

  • I can tell you that the number one problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia.

  • There was a circle of older men that surrounded themselves around this group of kids.

  • Declining to give specifics, Feldman said.

  • A Hollywood executive is directly responsible for the drug and alcohol problems that contributed to the death of his friend and fellow child star Corey Came.

  • Would said he was lucky to have a mom who protected him from abuse, but added.

  • I've been led down dark paths to realize that these things probably are still happening for New Z I'm grants unison.

former child star Elijah Wood says Hollywood has a seedy underbelly of child sex abuse and that those responsible are being protected by the entertainment industry elite.

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