Elijah Wood BACKS Corey Feldman EXPOSING Hollywood's Connection To EPSTE1N

some of the richest, most powerful people in this business. And children aren't supposed to handle that sort of stuff. I can name six names.

One of them who is still very powerful today. The number one problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be ped. He can name names.

He has been able to name names for over 30 years. And the reason you don't know them is not because the evidence doesn't exist. It is because the people those names belong to are the same people who decide what gets investigated, what gets published, and what quietly disappears before it ever reaches you.

Two men entered Hollywood as young people, different decades, different films, different doors into the same building. And completely independently, they came out describing the exact same room. Cory Felman has been called unstable, attention-seeking, desperate.

Elijah Wood said what he said and then went very very quiet. And the Hollywood elite connection to Jeffrey Epstein that both of them have been circling their entire careers has never been closer to the surface than it is right now. Before we talk about the system, we need to talk about what it took because it is very easy to hear the word Hollywood and picture red carpets, award shows, and people who chose this life with full knowledge of what it costs.

Cory Feldman did not choose anything. He was young with no understanding of what he was getting into. Literally was famous before I knew my own name.

His roles defined the8s. Goonies. This was my dream, my wish.

Stand by me. You call my dad a looney again and I'll kill you. License to drive.

The only difference between you and that grease ball is that he has a license and you don't. Films that propelled him into the spotlight for his entire youth. But being famous so young, he says, caused serious damage to him and his friends.

Do you feel like you missed out on a normal childhood? What childhood? I don't know what that means.

A lost childhood and a loss of innocence. He blames the adults, not just those looking to profit from charming children, but also some with far more sinister motives. I can tell you that the number one problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pett.

That's the biggest problem for children in this industry. The casting couch even applies to children. Oh yeah.

Not in the same way. It's all done under the radar. Nobody talks about ped.

It's the big secret. And it's widespread. Oh yeah.

I was surrounded by them when I was 14 years old. Surrounded. Literally.

Didn't even know it. It wasn't until I was old enough to realize what they were and what they wanted and what they were about and the types of people that were surrounding me till I went, "Oh my god, they were everywhere like vultures. " Famous before he knew his own name, not as a flex.

Not as a Hollywood origin story told with a smile. As a fact that should disturb every single person watching this. There was no version of Cory Felman's life where he got to be a young and careless young one first and a product second.

The machine found him before he had the language to understand what was being offered, before he had any framework to understand what was being taken. And the machine, which runs entirely on identifying who was vulnerable and exactly how to access them, identified that immediately. And Cory was not alone in that building.

There was someone else, someone the machine had found just as early. Someone understood exactly what Cory was going through because it was happening to him, too. Vultures who Feldman says him and his best friend, the late child actor Cory Hay, his co-star in the Lost Boys.

What happens if my mom is dating the head vampire? Feldman says the trauma of that ped contributed to Hay's death. There's one person to blame in the death of Cory Hayne, and that person happens to be a Hollywood mogul, and that person needs to be exposed.

But unfortunately, I can't be the one to do it. But the person that knows who did it and knows who he is is watching right now. I guarantee you.

Yeah. Intriguing. Yeah.

There was a circle of older men that surrounded themselves around this group of kids and they all had either their own power or connections to great power in the entertainment industry. Feldman won't name names. Andy admits his friend had a struggle with addiction, which he says was a mechanism to cope with his demons.

It was a symptom. It was a symptom. Correct.

Are we in it? In 2008, the two Cory's confronted each other on their reality show about the dark past they shared. You let me get around in my life, man.

To speak when I was about 14 and a half and I'm saying this right now. What'd you do, man, when you saw that going down when I was 14? To me, what' you do?

knew about it. You want to talk about the truth? Okay.

Well, then let's talk about the truth. I was being molested at the same time by somebody else. What' you do?

You know, there's a lot of good people in this industry, but there's also a lot of really, really sick, corrupt people in this industry, and there are people in this industry who have gotten away with it for so long that they feel they're above the law. Two boys, best friends, both inside the same machine at the same time. Both being handed to the same category of powerful, untouchable men, both knowing what was happening to the other, and both completely powerless to stop it because they were young with no means to protect themselves.

Cory Hay did not die from a DO in the way that sentences usually meant. He died from 30 years of carrying something that no person should ever have been given to carry. And the men who gave it to him are still working, still celebrated, still protected by the same system that handed two boys to them in the first place.

And if you think those men were operating alone, without a network, without protection, without a system built specifically to make sure none of this ever reached the surface, then you need to hear what happened every single time Corey Feldman tried to say their names out loud. Here is the thing about what happened to Cory Feldman and Corey Hay. It was not an accident.

It was not a case of two unlucky young ones stumbling into the wrong rooms at the wrong time. Because here is what accidents look like. They happen once.

They get investigated. Someone is held accountable and the door gets closed. So it cannot happen again.

That is not what happened here. The door stayed open. And the reason the door stayed open is because someone very powerful had a key.

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. Wood, 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. " Wood compared the unnamed to the British DJ Savile, who faced dozens of accusations of assault spanning more than four decades.

Those claims were largely swept under the rug until after Savile's death. It's important to note that Wood's claims are unsubstantiated, but other child stars from the same era have made similar accusations in the past. Elijah Wood did not grow up alongside Cory Feldman.

Different decade, different films, different agents, managers, and studio relationships entirely. And he arrived at the exact same description. Vipers protected by the upper echelons, not tolerated, protected, actively shielded by the people at the very top of the industry who had the power to open doors and made a deliberate choice to keep them open.

That convergence is not coincidence. Two survivors from two completely different corners of the same machine using the same language to describe the same predator class is a confirmation. But here is the question nobody in that industry ever wants to answer.

If everyone at the top knew and Elijah Wood is telling you they did, then why did it keep happening? Why did no parent, no journalist, no executive ever stand up and say enough? We have the ability to let our voices be heard and break the dam of silence.

I can name six names. One of them who is still very powerful today. Feldman posting the video after launching an online campaign aimed at raising $10 million to fund his plan to reveal what he calls the truth.

I propose to do this by making a film that will be the most honest and true depiction of child abuse ever portrayed by telling my own story in a very real way. We're fighters for truth, justice, and the American way. What she just described is not a failure of the system.

It is the system, an environment deliberately constructed so that the young person has no language for what is being done to them. No adult in their immediate circle whose loyalty belongs to them and not to the machine. No path to accountability that does not first require them to destroy the very career they were placed inside to build.

The industry does not fail to protect young actors by accident. It fails deliberately because protection would require accountability. Accountability would require naming names.

And naming names would pull on a thread that if followed all the way back leads directly to people who are still collecting awards, still green lit, still sitting in the exact same rooms where those decisions were made. So the system does what it has always done. It finds someone else to take the blame.

And when that doesn't work, it makes sure the person trying to speak never gets to finish the sentence. Every system that has something to hide develops the same defense, not denial. Denial is too obvious, too easy to disprove.

Redirection. You take the question that threatens you and you answer a completely different question so smoothly, so professionally, so reasonably that by the time the interview is over, the audience forgets what was actually being asked. Hollywood has had decades to perfect this.

And if you want to see it operating at its absolute peak, watch what happens the moment someone in Cory Feldman's circle is asked about the men who had access to him as a young one. Is there a dark side to child stum? Definitely.

I think a lot of kids don't really want to do it. I think that the parents want to do it more than the kids. Chris Snder says for most child stars, it's the parents that can cause more damage.

And he would know, having managed with his late boss, Iris Burton some of the most iconic child stars, including Feldman, River Phoenix, and Drw Barrymore. The biggest problem in the whole thing is when the parents start to live through the kids and quit their jobs and buy expensive houses, buy expensive cars, and the parents aren't understanding. It's not going to go on forever and it just wrecks everything.

Feldman's parents managed his career until the money came between them. I got legally emancipated by going to the producers's pension health and welfare plan myself at 14 years old and saying what were my earnings and what's left earnings by the time I was 13 years old a million dollars which is really not that much money but in those days it was you know in the late '7s early ' 80s that was a good chunk of change and how much was left 40,000 and guess what when I went in for the emancipation trial my father said since I spent my time with you on your last film and took it away from my office where I should have been focused. Instead, I'm going to ask you for that $40,000 back as repayment for the money that I lost in my business.

You had to pay your debt, correct? You can check the court filings. That was a fact.

Wow. So, I started at zero at 15 years old coming out of the hole. We asked the court for the records, but they're sealed.

In a statement, Cory's father, Bob Feldman, told us any money that the court awarded is a fraction of his claim. And this was a reimbursement for strictly professional expenses. For instance, private school, a publicist, professional wardrobe, traveling expenses, and lots more.

This helped to save his career while he was in trouble with drug problems. I thought I was doing the best for my son, and I am always here for him. Notice exactly what just happened.

A direct question about praise with access to young people inside the entertainment industry answered with a pivot to parental greed. And here's the thing, it is not a wrong point. Negligent parents who push their children into this machine without protection are absolutely part of this story.

But notice what that answer does not contain. Not one executive's name, not one agent, not one producer who opened a door that should never have been opened. Not one person inside the actual industry structure who bears any responsibility whatsoever.

The machine's fingerprints are wiped clean in real time. The parents absorb the weight and the men Cory Feldman has been trying to name for 30 years. Walk out of the building untouched.

And when Cory tried to go further, tried to use his own platform to finally say the names with evidence behind every single one. Watch what they did to him instead. I have I told in 1993 I told the Santa Barbara Police Department when they came to interrogate me about Michael Jackson trying to convince me literally that my friend was a pedoph and I told them no he's not.

I said in fact if you want to know what a pedoph like I can tell you very specifically because I've been molested. And they said oh really by who? I said well I can give you the names.

Here they are. And they said okay well you know unfortunately that's not our area. um that's outside of our uh our community, our jurisdiction.

Did you ever follow up in the right jurisdiction in Los Angeles? Because let me tell you something. When you're a kid, when you're an 18, 19, 20-year-old kid, you try telling the police, which is a very big thing to do and especially when it wasn't even my situation.

I was just answering for a friend. So, the fact that I found the courage to even throw it in there and hopefully get some support and then they were like, "Sorry, they just shut it down like it didn't matter. " And this was when it was still within the statute of limitation.

It was within my 10 years because in California, we're only allowed 10 years to report these crimes. And if you're a kid and this happens to you at 12, 13, 14 years old, that means you have until you're 22, 23. Well, how many people by 22 23 are self-aware enough to know that they can come forward and they won't be scolded, they won't be shamed?

I did and I was shamed. They did not want the names Cory Feldman had. They wanted one specific name.

A name that was already damaged, already controversial, already unable to defend itself. And when Cory refused to hand them that, when he held his ground and said, "These are not the names. These are not the men.

" They did not investigate further. They shamed him for speaking at all. That is not journalism.

That is not accountability. That is asset management. And the asset being managed is the silence around the names that actually matter.

Corey Feldman did not just give interviews. He did not just sit across from journalists and hope that the right person would finally listen. He tried to build something that could not be edited, could not be redirected, could not be answered with a pivot to parental responsibility.

A film, his own platform, his own evidence, his own documentation. The names finally in a context nobody could control. The way child predators work, it's like the old thing about Willie Sutton.

Why do you rob banks? It's where they keep the money. Child predators go, well, where are they keeping the children?

And where might there be some children who are not being supervised all the time by their parents? Oh, look, agent, child manager, photographer, casting director. These are also things where a child predator will say, "Oh, wow.

What if I got a job doing that? How many parents would leave their kid alone with me? " There's been a few managers who've gotten arrested and gone to jail not long enough, but they got caught.

But before they got caught, there were parents dropping their kids off at these guys' houses. Did it occur to you that maybe it's odd for a 40-year-old guy to want that many 11year-olds in his pool without their parents all day? You see, with show business, it's very weird.

People will get starruck. And if their next door neighbor said, "Hi, you hardly know me, but I would like to have your children come over and stay in my house and and not have you there. " You would say, "No.

" You would say, "That's weird. " But someone very rich, someone very famous, someone who's an agent or a manager or a star comes up and tells you this, people say, "All right, let me pack a bag. " I didn't tell anyone what was happening to me until I was an adult.

As an adult, I look back and I go, how stupid was that? I had people I could have told. Can you imagine if I had told Michael Landon or anyone in Little House in the Prairie?

Of course, they would have done something. But I You don't think of that when you're a kid. You don't know.

You don't think like a grown-up. I can name six names. One of them who is still very powerful today.

The film never came out. Not because the evidence wasn't there. Not because Cory changed his mind.

Not because the story fell apart under scrutiny, because someone or several someone's decided that the American way of handling this particular story was silence. And if you think this kind of protection only exists inside Hollywood, if you believe this is somehow a uniquely American disease, then you have not been paying attention to what was happening on the other side of the Atlantic at the exact same time with the exact same playbook. Because what Jimmy Savile's story proves beyond any reasonable doubt is that this is not about one industry, one country, or one era.

It is about what happens when a system decides that protecting its most powerful assets matters more than protecting the most vulnerable people inside it. In the 80s, Savile appeared on a BBC program called Open to Question. It was hosted by a young Christian Guru Murphy.

Remind me the subject matter. I thought it was a fun thing, but never mind. A panel of teenagers asked him the questions then that if we could, everyone wants to ask him now.

Jimmy, you've never been married and you don't seem to have a very high regard of women. And do you feel that women are inferior to you or are you frightened from them? Don't you see a intellectual contradiction in your tabloid claim of having in a passion wagon and your profession to be a devout Roman Catholic?

Oh, you must put the camera on this man. This man is the only person I know in the world who believes newspapers. Clunk the car door and click the seat belt.

Clunk click every trick. Another BBC show clunk click during the 70s with Jimmy Savile. Last week, a woman claimed that during the making of this episode of Clunk Click with Jimmy Savile, the comedian Freddy Star molested her.

She was 14 at the time. Freddy Star said this wasn't true, that he'd never met her. He went on to say, "I've only met Jimmy Savile maybe twice.

He came to see me with his mother at one of my shows. I always thought he was a flash. " The other time was when he came into mine and my partner's men's clothing shop in Leeds.

We were set in the shop and he walked past, looked in, and then came in. But here's the thing. Channel 4 News has discovered that Freddy Star had met Jimmy Savile a third time because Freddy Star was a special guest on this episode.

Freddy Star would make a good parachutist. But there's more. This is the woman who alleged that Star molested her that day.

She was interviewed last week and explained that she'd told her story to News Night, but that News Night had decided not to run the story. I also told them that I was horribly, horribly humiliated by Freddy Star, who had a very bad attack of Wandering Hands and had groped me. and I didn't like him because he smelled like my stepfather and it it frightened me and freaked me out and and I rebuffed him.

That was last week. This was Karen Ward when she was 14 on the set of Clunk Click with Freddy Star during that episode. This doesn't prove that Star molested Karen Ward.

It does call into question what he said though about this incident. United given a BBC studio with a key handed access to hospitals to young people's wards to institutions housing the most vulnerable people in the country while the people around him knew not suspected not wondered knew was child protection on your radar as an issue back then I have to say I don't suppose it was an awful thing to say isn't it no are you surprised that nobody from the BBC has called you in the last fortnight. I am a bit surprised.

Yes. And I'm I'm expecting if there is this inquiry that somebody surely is going to speak to me. You you you were the go you were the gobetween, weren't you?

Between Savile and the corporation. You you were the lynch pin. Yes.

I was the person responsible. So if they were taken this seriously, you would imagine that somebody would have picked up the phone to you in the last Fortnite. Well, I'm expecting it a call at any time.

The producer called it out directly on record and the machine calculated the cost of exposure against the cost of protection and protection won because Savile was useful. His connections ran deep enough, his relationships powerful enough that the people with the ability to close that door made a deliberate choice to leave it open. And then there is Ian Watkins.

It is a case that plunged into new depths of depravity according to the judge as he jailed the former lost provit singer Ian Watkins for 35 years for a series of child sex offenses. Watkins admitted 13 charges including the attempted of a small child as the judge told him any decent person would experience shock, revulsion and incredul at his crimes. Two women, mothers of the children who were abused also jailed.

Our home affairs correspondent Andy Davis was in court. As the police now probe far beyond the UK, trying to map the true scale of this man's crimes, it was left to the judge in the case today to articulate the gravity of the offenses they know about. He and the two women alongside him had plumbed new depths of depravity, said the judge.

Many here, he said, will have heard many horrific cases. This, however, breaks new ground. Your total sentence, he addressed Watkins, is one of 35 years.

As Mr Justice Royce handed down the sentence, someone in the public gallery said, "Wow. " Another clapped. And then moments later, a woman stood up and started shouting abuse at Ian Watkins.

The former Lost Prophet singer who was caught with more than 90 indecent photos of children, videos of extreme pornography, images of bestiality. The man who in April last year at this hotel attempted to camera an 11-month-old boy with the boy's mother present and encouraging him. The man who would months later encourage another young mother over Skype to her own young daughter for him amidst talk of him wanting the little girl to take crack cocaine.

He's the most dangerous child I've ever met because he shows no emotion. He uh shows no sympathy. He shows no guilt.

And in this case, the evidence is overwhelming. His barristers said he was ashamed and appalled by what he'd done, unable to recall some of it due to drugs. But such claims of remorse rang hollow after the prosecution today relayed the contents of two phone calls he'd made from prison just days after pleading guilty.

In one, he says to the woman he's called that he wants to put out a public statement just to say it was Mega Lols. I don't know what everyone is getting so freaked out about. Lols is often construed as meaning laugh out loud.

Megal, a phrase used by his band while they were touring. When the woman suggested that she wasn't sure that this was the right statement, he replied, "No, it's just lols now. " 35 years.

And what the sentencing revealed was not just the crimes of one man. It was the number of people who had been told, who had seen, who had been shown evidence and said absolutely nothing. Hollywood, the BBC, the global music industry, different countries, different decades, different names on the door, identical system, identical silence.

And now take everything you just watched, every door that was left open, every name that was protected, every survivor who was shamed into silence, and ask yourself one question. Where does Jeffrey Epstein fit into this picture? Because Cory Feldman and Elijah Wood have both been circling that answer for 30 years.

And what they have described is not a coincidence. Jeffrey Epstein did not build his network in a vacuum. It was built the same way every PR network inside Entertainment has always been built through access, through trust, through the unspoken contract that Cory Feldman has been trying to describe since he was a teenager.

You will be used. You will say nothing. And in exchange, the doors stay open.

The client list that remains sealed. The names of powerful institutions on both sides of the Atlantic are still fighting to keep out of the public record. Those are not strangers to this story.

They are the logical endpoint of it. And always will be and they're some of the richest, most powerful people in this business. And children aren't supposed to handle that sort of stuff.

still powerful, still protected, still in the building, and every journalist who redirected. Every executive who calculated, every producer who saw and said nothing, every institution that chose reputation over accountability, made sure it stayed that way. Cory Feldman did not need 30 years to find the evidence.

He had it. What he did not have was a system willing to receive it. So, here is what the Hollywood elite connection to J actually means.

If a system this coordinated, this patient, and this global, could silence two men who survived it as young ones for over 30 years, how many others never got old enough to speak at all? And Cory Feldman's film, the one with the evidence, the documentation, the names written down. Where did it actually go?

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