In The Two Coreys reality TV show, few can forget the memorable scene where Corey Haim confronted Corey Feldman about what had happened to him back in the 1980s when they were best friends and two of the biggest teen stars in Hollywood. What Haim alluded to was a time when he was molested by a man that Feldman knew and was good friends with.
The video clip of that scene can be found on YouTube. Here's one link:
Corey Feldman has said that he will be naming the names when he puts his "My Truth: The Rape Of Two Coreys" documentary up on his website on March 9th. The person Haim alludes to in the above clip, pointing out that Feldman was still friends with him, was reportedly Dominick Brascia. In Feldman's book, he doesn't admit the name. He uses the pseudonym Tony Burnham. It was Judy Haim who said it was Dominick Brascia in her appearance on Dr Oz. Speculation is that Feldman will finally confirm that in the coming documentary.
Things get a bit interesting from there, and I'm going to use a People Magazine article that is still on their website at the link below.
This interview happened back in 2008, a few months after that episode alluded to in the video clip we linked above. Both Corey Feldman and Corey Haim were interviewed at separate locations. There are a couple of very interesting things to point out in the People Magazine article. I have linked the article, but I want to talk about a couple of specific moments within it.
In the setup to the interviews, there is this interesting snippet here.
During the show’s second season, both actors confessed that they had
been sexually abused as kids: Feldman by a man hired to be his
assistant, Haim by a 42 year old man he won’t identify.
My question is who is the 42 year old man that Haim will not identify? The age mentioned here does not line up with Dominick Brascia. At the time the incident would have happened, Brascia would be in his twenties. At the time this interview was done, Brascia would be well over 42 years of age.
This part becomes speculation. There is only one potential age of a name that Feldman may drop in his documentary that lines up with the 42 year old man. Feldman has hinted that when he first met Haim prior to filming The Lost Boys, Haim aditted to being molested by an adult male on the set of Lucas. Internet sleuths have deduced the name. Some have said it was the producer, and some have said it was a co-star who was about 6 years older than Haim at the time. What the truth is, I don't know.
The producer of that movie probably would not have been 42 years old at the time. Getting his exact age has been difficult as he doesn't have a profile on the internet showing his date of birth. The man has been very involved in producing movies, TV series and even been involved in the music industry for several years. He is still involved to this day, but he'd be in his thirties at the time of the alleged incident when it happened and well over 42 years old at the time that Haim did the 2008 interview.
This is where it gets interesting. While the co-star would have been about 19 years old at the time the alleged incident would have happened, he would have been around 42 years old at the time that Haim did the interview. Who was this co-star? I hesitate to post the person's name, although he was a pretty big TV star in the last 15 years or so before kind of going off the deep end. He was making more money for a TV series than anybody in Hollywood up to that point.
What I can say is that about the time that the Corey Feldman Tour with his angels came to a grinding halt, Dominick Brascia sold a story to the National Enquirer claiming that Charlie Sheen had molested Haim on the set of Lucas. Feldman refused to comment on the interview, and Sheen sued the National Enquirer for defamation of character. I'm not saying anything other than Sheen would have been 42 years old at the time that Haim gave the 2008 interview to People Magazine.
I prefer to use Corey Haim's own words. Since he's no longer alive, all we have are old interviews. In his portion of this interview with People Magazine, Haim made this statement when asked why he blames Feldman for his childhood sexual abuse.
He said, “I’ll always have your back.” But he knew that there was a rape
issue going on with me for about two years, and what did he do about
it? Nothing.
A few thoughts come to mind based on that response. He said Feldman knew there was a rape issue going on. What was the context? He mentions a two-year period, which could encompass the time before Feldman met him when Haim mentioned what had happened to him on the set of Lucas through the time Feldman introduced him to Tony Burnham (later revealed by Judy Haim to be Dominick Brascia).
I could certainly understand Haim eventually realizing what was going on. He trusted Feldman with his secret, and Feldman eventually still introduced him to a man who continued this abuse. Is that the context, or is Haim saying that whatever was happening with this particular man was ongoing for two years and Feldman did nothing about it?
A lot of things go through your mind as a victim. There's the confusion at the time. Did you ask for it? Then you realize that's not what it was. Haim said more on that in the interview.
A lot of things go through your mind as a victim. There's the confusion at the time. Did you ask for it? Then you realize that's not what it was. Haim said more on that in the interview.
I was molested at a young age and I felt like I let it happen, man. I
had come to terms with this a long time ago, but then, obviously not.
I’m still working on it. Stuff happens when you are a kid; it scars you.
Feldman clearly indicates in his book that he introduced Haim to two of the men who did this to him, although he also points out that Haim was already affected by what had happened on the set of Lucas. He insinuates that Haim was looking for sexual activity with Feldman, but Feldman didn't want to do that. Some people will point to how attractive Haim was and the fact that he could have found a girl his age if that was his desire. That's obviously a topic that could be pursued deeper.
I don't know what Feldman would have to gain in his book (Coreyography) by admitting that he set Haim up with adults for sex. It doesn't make Feldman look very good. It doesn't really make Haim look good either as Haim is made to look a little bit over-sexualized in the book. He wants it, and he's not concerned with whether he has it with a man or a woman. The other question one would have is why would Feldman only try to set his friend up with men? Again, another topic worthy of discussion.
Judy Haim, who is at odds with Feldman over the book he wrote that talked about Haim and is none too pleased about this coming documentary, has said it only happened once with her son and it was with Dominick Brascia. However, the quote in this People Magazine interview seems to indicate it happened more than once.
It's a sad, sick, disgusting story, and it breaks my heart to see what happened to these two promising young stars. What they could have become was derailed by what they went through. It's also not a rare story, but it isn't every child star from Hollywood who's willing to go out and admit this. It's brave of Haim to have said anything in any interview, and it's also brave of Feldman to be leading this crusade.
The names of Feldman's abusers have already been released on episodes of Dr Oz. Feldman says it happened to him at the hands of Alphy Hoffman and Cloyd Jon Grissom. Hoffman ran the Soda Pop Club parties for the kids in Hollywood from 1986 through 1989. Haim admitted in a vice.com piece that he and Feldman were the original hosts of the first party, and he didn't have flattering things to say about Hoffman. He did deny that Hoffman had anything to do with his drug use.
Corey Haim Article In Vice Magazine
Feldman has explained that Grissom was the adult he stayed with after he emancipated himself from his parents. Grissom was the one who influenced him in making that decision, and Feldman claims Grissom is also the one who introduced him to the drugs he started taking. Last report was Grissom was living in Mexico and fleeing the law.
In his book, Feldman named Marty Weiss as somebody who had molested Haim, and he further depicted him in that light in A Tale of Two Coreys, which is a Lifetime movie from a few years ago. Weiss is active on Twitter speaking against Feldman. He denies having done anything with Haim, although he's been convicted for doing other things with another child star. He was involved for many years representing child stars, and you can hear more about his case in a documentary called An Open Secret. I personally don't believe Feldman would have put the name Marty Weiss in his book had Weiss not been convicted in another case.
Feldman claims he attempted to name all six names in his book when it was released in 2013, but he had the pseudonyms forced on him for legal reasons. Weiss was the only name Corey released that he claims had anything to do sexually with Haim. When Feldman revealed that Alphy Hoffman had molested him, he revealed that Hoffman wasn't really the son but was the gay lover of Bob Hoffman. Bob Hoffman had a role in helping get Feldman and other child stars roles in various TV shows in the late 1970s and early 1980s, although Feldman doesn't claim anything sexually happened with him. The producer on the movie Lucas has a tie in with The Bad News Bears TV series and at least one of those movies before that as he was involved in the production.
This means that the names that have actually been revealed of the six are Bob Hoffman, Alphy Hoffman, Marty Weiss and Cloyd Jon Grissom.
Though Judy Haim has claimed that Dominick Brascia molested her son, Feldman has not corroborated that. The two were indeed friends for many years, and Brascia spoke on Feldman's behalf in The E True Hollywood Story about Feldman back in the late 1990s. He had a role in the movie Busted that Feldman directed in 1997 and was in one of the Friday The 13th movies with Feldman as well. It remains to be seen whether Feldman will reveal the identity of Tony Burnham as Dominick Brascia or not.
The big name is the person on the set of Lucas. Was it the actor that some people believe did it or was it the producer? Was it somebody else? Feldman has claimed he's going to name that name, and it's certainly going to get people talking and could ultimately bring a lawsuit against Feldman.
Feldman is going to talk about who did what and also explain how and why these things happen to kids in Hollywood's. He's going to outline how this happens on all different levels. The documentary is certainly going to be something that people will want to see.
Corey has created a website where it will stream exclusively on March 9th at 8pm Pacific Time. 14 hours later, it will air a final time to make it easier for people around the world to view it. Feldman has claimed he will not air this anymore after that. Therefore, unless a studio or a streaming service decides to take this documentary and run with it, that will be it.
You can go to www.mytruthdoc.com to find out how to watch it.
