Marilyn Manson is dropping a lawsuit that he filed, in 2022, in opposition to Evan Rachel Wooden and Illma Gore, Rolling Stone studies and Pitchfork can affirm. Manson has additionally agreed to reimburse Wooden practically $327,000 in attorneys’ charges, her crew says. (A choose dominated earlier this yr that he needed to pay Wooden’s authorized charges.)
In an announcement, one among Wooden’s attorneys, Michael J. Kump, stated, “Marilyn Manson—whose actual title is Brian Warner—filed a lawsuit in opposition to Ms. Wooden as a publicity stunt to attempt to undermine the credibility of his many accusers and revive his faltering profession. However his try to silence and intimidate Ms. Wooden failed. Because the trial court docket accurately discovered, Warner’s claims had been meritless. Warner’s choice to lastly abandon his lawsuit and pay Ms. Wooden her full charge award of just about $327,000 solely confirms as a lot.”
When reached by Pitchfork, Manson’s lawyer, Howard E. King, acknowledged, “After 4 years of preventing a battle the place he was capable of inform the reality, Brian is happy to dismiss his still-pending claims and enchantment in an effort to shut the door on this chapter of his life.”
In his authentic criticism, Marilyn Manson claimed that Evan Rachel Wooden and Illma Gore (described as Wooden’s “on-again, off-again romantic accomplice”) conspired to solid him publicly “as a rapist and abuser—a malicious falsehood that has derailed Warner’s profitable music, TV, and movie profession.” He additionally alleged that Gore, specifically, defamed him with statements she made concerning the filming of his “Groupie” music video.
Elsewhere within the lawsuit, Manson claimed that Wooden and Gore “secretly recruited, coordinated, and pressured potential accusers to emerge concurrently with allegations of rape and abuse in opposition to Warner.” As well as, he stated that Wooden and Gore impersonated an FBI agent “to create the false look that Warner’s alleged ‘victims’ and their households had been at risk, and that there was a federal felony investigation of Warner ongoing.”
Final yr, a choose struck down a few of Manson’s claims, together with his allegation that Wooden and Gore recruited girls to accuse him of wrongdoing.
Evan Rachel Wooden publicly named Marilyn Manson as her alleged abuser in 2021, claiming that the musician groomed and “horrifically abused” her for years. She spoke additional about her alleged experiences with Manson in the Phoenix Rising documentary, alleging that he tortured her and in addition “basically raped” her throughout the filming of a music video.
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