Ricky Garcia, singer of the band Forever in Your Mind

Ricky Garcia, actor and member of the everlasting group Forever in Your Mind, has accused his former director of repeatedly raping him for years and other Hollywood executives. have sexually assaulted.

A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles on behalf of Garcia alleges that the talented Joby Harte violated Garcia, 20, while he represented him and helped him to make himself known over the years, to count from the age of 12.

The lawsuit, seen by NBC News, also claims that Harte "embodied Garcia in his personal sex toy that could be passed on to his friends in the industry," including Talental Manager Nils Larsen and Tyler Grasham, who were fired from the company. Performing Arts agency in 2018 after a filmmaker accused her of sexual assault.

Grasham did not respond publicly to the allegations of 2018, but the Los Angeles prosecutor's office refused to prosecute him because of the lack of evidence and the statute of limitations, reported the Los Angeles Times.

Harte did not respond to a request for comment. Larsen or Grasham also did not respond to requests for comment.

"Harte sexually assaulted Mr. Garcia almost every week and also made him available for abuse," said the prosecution, who alleged that Harte had, on numerous occasions, provoked the death of Mr. Garcia. Garcia's drunkenness and having raped her. Garcia would wake up naked and confused, said the suit. Harte assaulted Garcia on his travels, after the holidays, at the head office and in the spas, said the trial.

Garcia, who appeared in Fox's "The X Factor", starred in Disney Channel's comedy "Best Friends Whenever" and appears in the movie "Bigger Fatter Liar", "believed that he was divulging what he had arrived, he would lose his career, friends, group members and family, "said the suit.

But in 2018, suffering from "immense shame and embarrassment," Garcia told former Harte's assistant about years of alleged sexual violence. The assistant told Garcia's mother.

When Garcia's mother confronted Harte, he told her that the abuse was "just insults," the prosecution said. But he also admitted that he "did not behave like an adult".

The lawsuit alleges that "Mr. Garcia's traumatic experience of being a sexual victim and victim of Harte – and others – upset his relationships with his family and friends and ultimately led Mr. Garcia took a break from the industry at the very moment – his career should have been on the rise as one of the preeminent young celebrities of Hollywood. "

"Mr. Garcia has bravely moved forward to join the #metoo movement, to regain his dignity and declare that victims like him must be heard," his attorneys Michael S. Popok and Ben Meiselas said in a statement. .

Garcia claims punitive and compensatory damages. His lawyers did not respond to messages asking him if he had contacted the police about alleged assaults.