A notorious mansion. An alleged assault by a Hollywood producer. A suicide. What happened to Brian Claflin?

The L.A. Times reports:

In the early afternoon of June 5, 2014, a man appeared on the subway tracks between stations in Berlin. He stood alone a few hundred yards into a tunnel, and train conductors said they couldn't brake in time to avoid hitting him.

The fatal accident received no media attention, except for a local brief that noted the early rush-hour train delays. The identity of the deceased — Brian Claflin, a 33-year-old American — was not reported, nor was his connection to powerful men in Hollywood who were accused of sexual abuse. German authorities declared the death to be "presumed suicide."

Four years later, Claflin's parents are still trying to understand what happened to their son. Claflin's father received via email a statement his son sent to a law firm just before his death, alleging that filmmaker Gary Goddard had drugged and sexually assaulted him at age 18 in Los Angeles. It was an allegation Claflin had made repeatedly in the preceding decade. The Times spoke to three people — two close friends and his sister, Molly Jones — who said Claflin told them about the alleged assault, and he accused Goddard directly in an email exchange in 2006.

Goddard vociferously denied the allegation then, as he does now. Sam Singer, a publicist for Goddard, 65, told The Times that his client did not assault Claflin "in any way." Goddard knew Claflin since he was 18, Singer said, and during that time often supported Claflin's nomadic lifestyle. "Mr. Goddard considers it a tragedy that he died as he did," Singer said. "He finds it hurtful that his kindnesses to Brian are now somehow being twisted into a negative."

Gary Goddard knows a lot of boys.