Rocker Marilyn Manson has agreed to drop a lawsuit in opposition to his former fiancée, “Westworld” actor Evan Rachel Wood, and to pay her attorneys’ charges, attorneys for each side mentioned Tuesday.
The transfer comes 18 months after a Los Angeles County choose threw out a lot of the 2022 swimsuit through which Manson, whose authorized title is Brian Warner, claimed Wood had fabricated public allegations that he sexually and bodily abused her throughout their relationship and inspired different ladies to manufacture their very own allegations.
“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 as a way to shut the door on this chapter of his life,” Manson legal professional Howard King mentioned in an announcement.
Manson had been interesting the choose’s resolution however his attorneys reached out to Wood’s looking for a settlement within the spring. Wood’s attorneys mentioned Tuesday that she rejected requests that the phrases be stored confidential.
Manson “filed a lawsuit against Ms. Wood as a publicity stunt to try to undermine the credibility of his many accusers and revive his faltering career,” Wood’s lawyer Michael J. Kump mentioned in an announcement. “But his attempt to silence and intimidate Ms. Wood failed.”
Manson agreed to pay almost $327,000 in legal professional charges for Wood.
The settlement comes almost 4 years right into a legal investigation of the 55-year-old Manson involving a number of ladies that continues to be unresolved. Outgoing LA County District Attorney George Gascón mentioned in October that his workplace’s intercourse crimes division had simply found new proof and {that a} resolution on whether or not to file expenses can be made when the image was extra full.
The ladies concerned within the legal case haven’t been recognized, however “Game of Thrones” actor Esme Bianco has mentioned she was amongst them, and criticized the district legal professional for taking so lengthy to analyze. Bianco settled her personal lawsuit in opposition to Manson final 12 months.
The Associated Press doesn’t sometimes title individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused until they arrive ahead publicly as Wood and Bianco have.
Manson has denied partaking in any non-consensual sexual acts.
In 2017, with the #MeToo motion gaining momentum, Wood mentioned publicly that she had been raped and abused, and gave testimony on the topic to a Congressional committee in 2018, however didn’t title anybody in both occasion.
Then in a 2020 Instagram publish, Wood mentioned it was Manson who had “horrifically abused me for years.” The two revealed they had been a pair in 2007, and had been briefly engaged in 2010 earlier than breaking apart.
Manson’s unique lawsuit alleged that Wood and one other lady, Ashley Gore, often known as Illma Gore in court docket papers, defamed him, deliberately precipitated him emotional misery and derailed his profession in music, TV and movie. It says they used false pretenses, together with a phony letter from the FBI, to persuade different ladies to come back ahead with sexual abuse allegations and coached them on what to say. The swimsuit mentioned Wood had solely glowing issues to say about Manson throughout their relationship.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Teresa A. Beaudet dismissed the a part of the swimsuit coping with the disputed FBI letter, which Wood denied forging. Beaudet additionally tossed out a piece that alleges Wood and Gore used a guidelines discovered on an iPad for different ladies to make use of to make abuse claims about Manson.
Other elements of the lawsuit had remained as a result of they weren’t topic to Wood’s movement, together with allegations that Gore hacked Manson’s e mail, cellphone and social media accounts, created a phony e mail to fabricate proof that he was sending unlawful pornography, and “swatted” him, utilizing a prank name to ship authorities to his dwelling.
Gore reached her personal settlement with Manson to dismiss the lawsuit. A message to her attorneys looking for remark wasn’t instantly returned.
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