Marilyn Manson sued his former fiancee, Westworld actor Evan Rachel Wood, on Wednesday (March 2) over her allegations that he sexually and bodily abused her throughout their relationship.
The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court alleges that Wood’s allegations had been fabricated, and that she and one other lady named as a defendant, Illma Gore, used false pretenses together with a phony letter from the FBI to persuade different girls to come back ahead with sexual abuse allegations and coached them on what to say about Manson, whose authorized identify is Brian Warner.
The lawsuit, which claims defamation and intentional infliction of emotional misery, says Wood publicly solid Manson “as a rapist and abuser – a malicious falsehood that has derailed Warner’s profitable music, TV, and movie profession.”
Wood and Gore haven’t but filed a response to the lawsuit.
An e mail to representatives of Wood looking for remark was not instantly returned.
Manson and Wood revealed they had been a pair in 2007, and so they had been briefly engaged in 2010 earlier than breaking apart.
In 2017, when the #MeToo motion gained momentum, Wood mentioned she had been raped and abused, and he or she gave testimony to a Congressional committee in 2018, each with out naming anybody.
Then in an Instagram publish in February of 2020, Wood named Manson, saying he “horrifically abused me for years.”
Manson was dropped by his file label.
Several different girls got here ahead with related allegations. At least three of them filed lawsuits.
And police started an investigation of Manson.
An HBO documentary on the allegations premieres March 15.
Evan Rachel Wood and Marilyn Manson broke up in 2010.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday says that Wood had solely glowing issues to say about Manson throughout their relationship, and he or she mentioned nothing of his abusing her for 10 years till she met Gore, an artist whom the lawsuit describes as Wood’s on-again, off-again romantic accomplice.
It alleged that Wood and Gore engaged in a conspiracy that “recruited, coordinated, and pressured potential accusers to emerge concurrently with allegations of rape and abuse in opposition to Warner, and overtly declare that it took ten or extra years to ‘realise’ their consensual relationships with Warner had been supposedly abusive.”
The lawsuit says the ladies impersonated and solid a letter from an actual FBI agent to create the misunderstanding that girls and their households had been in peril from Manson, who was below federal investigation.
It alleges they supplied checklists and scripts to potential accusers, describing claims to make and make them.
Copies of the letter and the lists are included as reveals within the lawsuit.
It additionally alleges the ladies hacked Manson’s e mail, cellphone and social media accounts, created a phony e mail to fabricate proof that he was emailing unlawful pornography, and “swatted” him, utilizing a prank name to ship authorities to his house and draw additional consideration to the allegations.
The lawsuit says that some girls who had been contacted refused to participate as a result of they had been being requested to say issues that had been unfaithful.
“This detailed grievance has been filed to cease a marketing campaign of malicious and unjustified assaults on Brian Warner,” Manson’s legal professional Howard King mentioned in an announcement. Wood has not taken authorized motion in opposition to Manson.
Game Of Thrones actor Esme Bianco and Manson’s former assistant Ashley Walters have sued him based mostly on their sexual abuse allegations.
The Associated Press doesn’t usually identify individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused except they arrive ahead publicly. – AP
