Evan Rachel Wooden and Marilyn Manson in 2007 Eric Charbonneau/Wireimage
Marilyn Manson has deserted a 2022 lawsuit filed in opposition to ex-fiancée Evan Rachel Wooden that accused her of defamation and emotional misery.
In keeping with authorized paperwork obtained by Us Weekly on Tuesday, November 26, Manson, actual identify Brian Warner, has additionally agreed to pay roughly $327,000 to cowl lawyer charges accrued by Wooden, 37.
Manson filed the lawsuit on March 2, 2022, a couple of weeks previous to the discharge of HBO’s Phoenix Rising documentary miniseries which included Wooden’s allegations of rape and sexual abuse in opposition to Manson throughout their three-year relationship.
In mild of Manson’s lawsuit dismissal, authorized representatives for Wooden shared a press release with Us on Tuesday. “Marilyn Manson — whose actual identify 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 and silence and intimidate Ms. Wooden failed,” the assertion learn. “Because the trial courtroom appropriately discovered, Warner’s claims have been meritless. Warner’s resolution to lastly abandon his lawsuit and pay Ms. Wooden her full payment award of just about $327,000 solely confirms as a lot.”
Evan Rachel Wooden and Marilyn Manson caught the general public’s consideration early on of their relationship — and haven’t stopped making headlines within the years since they cut up. The duo went public with their romance in January 2007, when Wooden was 19 and Manson was 36. The “Wrapped in Plastic” rocker was beforehand married to Dita […]
The assertion additionally detailed that Manson’s lawsuit accused Wooden of “defamation and intentional infliction of emotional misery,” alleging that she “orchestrated a marketing campaign to solid him as a rapist and destroy his profession.”
Wooden responded on the time by “looking for to strike the majority,” per the assertion, of Manson’s lawsuit, and in 2023, the courtroom sided with Wooden, ruling that “Manson’s claims lack advantage.”
Earlier this yr, the courtroom ordered Manson to reimburse Wooden the desired authorized charges. Wooden was represented within the authorized battle by Michael Kump, Shawn Holley and Katherine Kleindienst of Los Angeles’ Kinsella Holley Iser Kump Steinsapir LLP.
An lawyer for Manson, Howard King, advised Rolling Stone in a press release on Tuesday, “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.”
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Wooden accused Manson, her ex-fiancé, of grooming and abusing her for a number of years throughout their tumultuous relationship. The pair started relationship in 2007 and acquired engaged in January 2010. The engagement was referred to as off seven months later.
“The identify of my abuser is Brian Warner, additionally recognized to the world as Marilyn Manson,” Wooden claimed through Instagram in February 2021. “He began grooming me once I was a youngster and horrifically abused me for years. I used to be brainwashed and manipulated into submission.”
Wooden additionally claimed within the put up that she determined to talk out as a result of she was “completed residing in worry of retaliation, slander, or blackmail,” including, “I’m right here to reveal this harmful man and name out the numerous industries which have enabled him, earlier than he ruins any extra lives. I stand with the numerous victims who will now not be silent.”
The actress’ social media reveal got here after she alleged to Rolling Stone in November 2016 that she had been raped twice previously, as soon as by a “vital different” and later by “the proprietor of a bar.”
Manson didn’t publicly tackle the allegations made in 2016, however in November 2020, he hung up his cellphone throughout an interview with Metallic Hammer after a journalist from the journal requested whether or not he was the ex who had abused Wooden.
The singer’s rep later issued a press release, which learn partially, “Sadly, we dwell in a time the place folks imagine what they learn on the web and be at liberty to say what they need with no precise proof. The consequences will be catastrophic and selling non-fact-based data is wholly irresponsible.” (Manson didn’t publicly touch upon the 2021 allegations made by Wooden.)
In February 2018, Wooden testified earlier than the USA Home Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Safety that she was a home violence and rape survivor.
If you happen to or anybody you realize has been sexually abused, name the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673). A skilled workers member will present confidential, judgment-free assist in addition to native assets to help in therapeutic, recovering and extra.
