Marilyn Manson is dropping a lawsuit that he filed, in 2022, towards Evan Rachel Wooden and Illma Gore, Rolling Stone stories and Pitchfork can verify. Manson has additionally agreed to reimburse Wooden almost $327,000 in attorneys’ charges, her group says. (A decide dominated earlier this yr that he needed to pay Wooden’s authorized charges.)
In an announcement, one in all Wooden’s attorneys, Michael J. Kump, mentioned, “Marilyn Manson—whose actual title is Brian Warner—filed a lawsuit towards Ms. Wooden as a publicity stunt to attempt to undermine the credibility of his many accusers and revive his faltering profession. However his try and silence and intimidate Ms. Wooden failed. Because the trial court docket appropriately discovered, Warner’s claims have been meritless. Warner’s resolution to lastly abandon his lawsuit and pay Ms. Wooden her full price award of just about $327,000 solely confirms as a lot.”
When reached by Pitchfork, Manson’s legal professional, Howard E. King, acknowledged, “After 4 years of combating a battle the place he was capable of inform the reality, Brian is happy to dismiss his still-pending claims and enchantment to be able to shut the door on this chapter of his life.”
In his authentic grievance, Marilyn Manson claimed that Evan Rachel Wooden and Illma Gore (described as Wooden’s “on-again, off-again romantic accomplice”) conspired to forged 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 in regards to 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 towards Warner.” As well as, he mentioned that Wooden and Gore impersonated an FBI agent “to create the false look that Warner’s alleged ‘victims’ and their households have been at risk, and that there was a federal felony investigation of Warner ongoing.”
Final yr, a decide 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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