Their lives have been rollercoaster rides with highs of fame and financial success, and lows of drug abuse and destitution, but former child stars Todd Bridges and Corey Feldman haven’t forgotten what it is like to be a kid in Hollywood, and all the dangers that it entails.

Both the Diff’rent Strokes regular and The Goonies star have recently revealed dark secrets about how they were molested as youths by older men

The Hollywood casting agent who had worked with children on Hollywood blockbusters such as Super 8 - despite a past conviction of child abuse - was arrested on Friday on suspicion of violating the sexual offender laws.

Jason James Murphy was charged by Los Angeles prosecutors with failing to file a name change and a change of address and therefore not being listed on the Megan's Law registry despite being a convicted sex offender, reported the Los Angeles Times.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, in 1996, then-19-year-old Murphy, from Seattle, Washington, was sentenced to nearly seven years for molesting and kidnapping a young boy who he met while working as a camp counselor.

A man who made his name managing child stars in Hollywood is suspected of sexually abusing one of the aspiring actors who hoped he would make him famous, RadarOnline.com has learned.

Martin Weiss of Santa Monica, California, was arrested on Tuesday for committing lewd acts on a child under 14 after a former client told police that he had been molested in his manager's apartment, reported the Los Angeles Times.

The victim, who is an aspiring singer and musician, may be just one of many that the 47-year-old alleged pedophile could have abused, police suspect.

A registered sex offender who had been convicted of assaulting an eight-year-old boy was later hired as a casting agent on a string of child-centric Hollywood blockbusters, without anyone on set knowing his real identity, RadarOnline.com has learned.

In 1996, Jason James Murphy, then a 19-year-old from suburban Seattle, Washington, was sentenced to nearly seven years for molesting and kidnapping a young boy who he met while working as a camp counselor, reported the Los Angeles Times.

Years later, the child abuser dropped his last name, and using the pseudonym Jason James, worked his way up the ranks of the casting industry to win coveted jobs on Super 8, Bad News Bears and The School Of Rock, where he worked with numerous young actors hoping to get their big break.