Corey Feldman names actor who 'abused him as child' during Dr Oz Show

The Lost Boys actor has spoken of Hollywood paedophile ring for years but never previously named alleged abusers

Corey Feldman has publicly identified a man he alleges molested him when he was a child film star in the 1980s.

The Goonies actor named his former assistant and co-star Jon Grissom as one of his abusers during a TV appearance in which he also reported the allegations to police.

Feldman has long told of being sexually abused by a Hollywood paedophile ring but has never previously named those responsible.

He named Grissom, an actor who had small roles in films alongside Feldman in the 1980s, on The Dr Oz Show.

"That is him," said Feldman as presenter Mehmet Oz held up a photo of Grissom on a mobile phone. "That is the guy."

The Lost Boys star said Grissom had sexually assaulted him when he was aged 13 or 14. He reported the alleged abuse on air in a phone call to Los Angeles Police Department.

The department said it was aware of the programme, broadcast on Thursday, but no report had yet been formally filed.

Jon Grissom is alleged to have sexually abused Corey Feldman (Facebook)

According to The Dr Oz Show, Grissom has an extensive criminal record and was jailed for child molestation in 2003. He has since been released and is thought to live in California.

Grissom had minor roles in Eighties teen comedy films License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream, both of which featured Feldman and fellow child star Corey Haim.

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Haim, who died in 2010, spoke of being sexually abused as a teenager by an acquaintance of Feldman.

Grissom's Myspace page features photos of himself with Haim and Feldman.

"He still taunts it, flaunts it," Feldman told Dr Oz.

The actor wrote of the abuse in his 2013 memoir Coreyography but said lawyers stopped him from naming Grissom. He instead used a pseudonym, "Ron Crimson", in the book.

He said: "They gave me a list of three or four, you know, names. I picked the one that sounded closest to his name.”

Corey Feldman, pictured singing in Los Angeles, said he was abused as a child by several men in the film industry (AP)

In the book, he writes: “I had taken some pills, some concoction that Ron had made up… Ron came over and sat down next to me, a triple-X magazine in his hands… Ron started touching me, reaching across my thigh to the crotch of my pants.

“When I woke up, he was on me, touching me, tugging on the zipper of my pants. I realised it was happening again.”

Last week Feldman also named talent manager Marty Weiss, a convicted child sex offender, as one of his alleged abusers.

He launched a $10m (£7.6m) fundraising drive for a film in which he said he would expose paedophilia in Hollywood and name other sexual predators.

He said the money would pay for security for himself and his family and a legal fund, as well as the production and distribution of the movie.

But he was criticised by Haim's mother, Judy, who told the Hollywood Reporter: “He’s been talking about revealing the names of his and other abusers for seven years, since my son died.

“Now he wants $10m to do it? Come on. It’s a long con. He’s a scam artist. If he was serious about this, he’d share the information he has with the police.”

Felman told Dr Oz he had reported abuse to police in 1993 but no action had been taken.

He said: "I told the Santa Barbara Police Department, when they came to interrogate me about Michael Jackson, when they came to convince me that he was a paedophile. And I said ‘He's not’.

"And I said, 'I've been molested.' They said, 'By who?' I said, 'I can give you the names, here they are.' And they said, 'That's not our area. That's outside of our community’.''

The department confirmed it had been in contact with Feldman, but said in a statement: "Our records do not indicate that he named any suspects."

Grissom has not commented on the allegations.