Corey Feldman will be naming the names of people he said abused Corey Haim, and the name everybody's wanting to know is the big name from the set of the movie Lucas. Feldman has been hinting at something for years, but there's another way to look at this. This particular name is going to shock and surprise a few people. Others may not be surprised as it will seem believable to them. However, Feldman has no proof of anything.
I mention this specific name and not the other two names that Feldman will mention as having molested Haim. In a court of law, you'll be asked certain questions. With the other two names, Feldman could at least point out that he introduced them to Haim. In his autobiography, Coreyography, he admits to setting up Haim with Marty Weiss and another person he named in his book as Tony Burnham. Others have speculated that Burnham is Feldman's friend Dominick Brascia. Judy Haim herself went on The Dr Oz Show and said it said that Brascia molested her son.
In those two particular cases, Feldman might be able to answer multiple questions while being under oath. The question he'd be able to answer for sure, based on his what he wrote in his book, is did he introduce Haim to these two people. It's interesting to note that convicted pedophile Marty Weiss is on Twitter attacking Feldman for doing this documentary. Weiss maintains nothing ever happened between he and Haim. Feldman feels confident enough in mentioning these two people because he admits he introduced Haim to both of them.
The person on the set of Lucas was said to be an adult male according to Feldman. This seems to be the most brutal incident, according to Feldman, because he has referred to it as rape. There is just one problem with this when it comes to a court of law. Feldman and Haim weren't anything more than acquaintances at best at the time when this alleged incident happened. They were just two Hollywood child stars trying to make their way in the business at the time. Sometimes they were going up for the same roles.
In a court of law, Feldman would be asked how he knew anything happened between this person and Haim. The only evidence he has is a conversation he had with him early on in their friendship. Feldman tells a story that early on Haim told him that this had happened. The way Feldman describes this incident is to establish that Haim was also sexually confused and had made sexual advances on him based on what allegedly happened on the set of Lucas. He claims that the incident made Haim more sexually aware.
After the lawyer would ask Feldman how he knew, obviously the next question the lawyer would ask him would be was he there? Did he witness anything? When the answer was no, the lawyer would quickly do away with this accusation as hearsay. Unless Feldman knew others who specifically knew more and were willing to go under oath, that's as far as this would go. This is also the reason Feldman has not gone public since his book was released by naming any names that had anything to do with Haim.
Basically, he didn't even go so far as to use a pseudonym in his book for the person on the set of Lucas. There is a reason for that. Unless there's something else that Feldman hasn't been telling us, the only evidence he may have that anything ever happened was the story that Haim supposedly told him early on in their friendship as they were getting ready to make the movie The Lost Boys.
When it comes to his own story, Feldman can talk all he wants. If the people he names feel strongly that he is lying and slandering them, they could have their day in court with him. Then Feldman can say what allegedly happened in these cases. In fact, he has not only outlined what happened in his book, he's also told some stories in various interviews through the years. This is another matter entirely, because Corey may or may not have first-hand evidence to support his claims against the people he says molested him, Alphy Hoffman and Cloyd Jon Grissom.
You might think that the fact that Feldman actually named Marty Weiss as somebody who molested Haim is big proof that something really happened between the two. However, even though Feldman was associated with Weiss at the time, this name never would have come out of Feldman's lips, at least up until the time the documentary airs, if not for the fact that Weiss has been convicted in another case. This has been outlined in a documentary called An Open Secret.
The fact that somebody else named Weiss in a different situation gave Feldman the confidence to name him in his book and further have him depicted in the Lifetime movie A Tale Of Two Coreys. If this is a lie as Weiss maintains it is, he certainly has strong grounds to pursue Feldman legally in a court of law. However, if there are other cases of Weiss and inappropriate behavior with other miners, which some have speculated could be the case, he also has reason to just complain a little bit on Twitter, maybe write a book and otherwise let it pass. It might not go well for him, but this is purely speculation on my part.
Feldman is very correct when he says that he has to legally protect himself before naming these names. He knows two names because he introduced those people to Haim, although the line of questioning he'd face in those two instances would certainly be interesting to hear. Feldman has never said he witnessed anything personally, just that he heard sounds from another room and that sort of thing. A lawyer will then have some interesting questions to ask him regarding whether he really knows anything about those two incidents at all. When it comes to the identity of Burnham, who some say is Dominick Brascia, there could be other interesting questions as Haim's mother, Judy Haim, has identified him as the only one she says molested her son. Speculation is that Brascia was the person Haim was really alluding to in that dramatic moment during The Two Coreys TV series.
You can't just name names without having the proof. For instance, the late Isaac Kappy willingly threw out many names as being pedophiles. What proof exactly did he ever have to make such claims? Anybody could pick out names and say that they did things. Kappy himself named Academy Award winners from Hollywood and made serious allegations against them. Had there been a day in court with Kappy on the witness stand, he probably wouldn't have lasted long. While some people believe what he said, it's important to point out that he never actually provided proof.
This is the thing about the internet age. We need to be very careful what it is we listen to and read, because people can say anything on the internet. They can make interesting and very compelling videos or write articles that claim anything, but everything they put out there could just be fabricated lies. However, to the untrained mind, they might be inclined to believe it. They just saw it or read it on the internet, so it must be true. Right?
I'm not suggesting that Feldman doesn't know anything regarding Haim, but there is a saying, "Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof." There is no doubt that when he names the names in his documentary, if it indeed it airs, people will start talking. What will the reaction be of the person who has been named? It stands to reason that this person is going to deny it. Will they lawyer up at that point and come after Feldman? Don't you think they would have a right to do so when his only proof is a story he says that Haim told him that according to everything else out there was never told to Haim"s own mother?
What Feldman is doing is brave, some will say stupid, but it's very risky. He could legally be in hot water over this whole issue. You can't just make a claim like this that if proven could destroy a person. If there is no proof, it becomes slanderous. What Feldman is really hoping is that he'll create a "Me Too" movement for kids. If this particular person abused any other underage kids, what he's really hoping for is that they will tell their stories and he gets the ball rolling.
What are the odds that this is going to happen? Will people come forward, or will people just remain silent? Are they remaining silent out of fear or because they have no story to tell? This still leaves Feldman standing out there having revealed the names. This documentary could have consequences, but what consequences? Will real criminals be brought to justice or will Corey Feldman face legal consequences himself? Or, will people continue to talk about this whole thing, mock Feldman and just go about their lives? That remains to be seen.
I think the reason this story has struck such a nerve for so many years is because it's believable to think that bad things have happened to both Feldman and Haim. Both of their lives spiraled out of control as the 1990s came to be. Feldman may have been erratic here or there, but he somewhat recovered. Haim never really did. He was, in some people's opinions, so damaged by what he went through that he never fully recovered. However, what is the truth? Perhaps something bad happened and that we will never really know the answers to. This documentary may therefore add to a conversation that may never truly go away.
