Rocker Marilyn Manson has agreed to drop his lawsuit against his former fiancee, “Westworld” actor Evan Rachel Wood, and pay her attorneys’ fees, attorneys on both sides said Tuesday.
The move comes 18 months after a Los Angeles County judge dismissed most of a 2022 lawsuit in which Manson, whose legal name is Brian Warner, claimed Wood fabricated the public allegations he sexually and physically abused her During their relationship and encouraged other women to fabricate their own allegations.
Manson’s attorney Howard King said in a statement, “After a four-year battle where he was able to speak the truth, Brian would like to dismiss his still-pending claims and appeals to close the door on this chapter of his life.” Happy.” statement.
Manson was appealing the judge’s decision but his lawyers approached Wood in the spring seeking a settlement. Wood’s lawyers said Tuesday they rejected the request to keep the terms confidential.
Wood’s attorney, Michael J. Manson filed the lawsuit against Ms. Wood “as a publicity stunt to undermine the credibility of his many accusers and try to revive his faltering career,” Kump said in a statement. “But their efforts to silence and intimidate Ms Wood failed.”
Manson agreed to pay approximately $327,000 in attorney fees for Wood.
The settlement comes nearly four years after a criminal investigation into the 55-year-old Manson Many women who are unresolved. Outgoing LA County District Attorney George Gascón said in October that his office’s sex crimes division had discovered new evidence and that a decision about whether to file charges would be made when the full picture was revealed.
The women involved in the criminal case have not been identified, but ‘Game of Thrones’ actress Esme Bianco has said she was one of them, and criticized the district attorney for taking so long with the investigation. Bianco settled his lawsuit against Manson last year.
The Associated Press does not generally name people who say they have been sexually abused unless it is so.Come out publicly as Hey Wood And Bianco has it.
Manson has denied engaging in any sexual acts without consent.
In 2017, as the #MeToo movement took hold, Wood publicly stated that she had been raped and abused, and testified on the subject before a congressional committee in 2018, but did not name anyone in either instance. Not Taken.
Then in a 2020 Instagram post, Wood said it was Manson who “horribly abused me for years.” The two revealed that they were a couple in 2007, and were briefly engaged in 2010 before separating.
Manson’s original lawsuit alleged that Wood and another woman, Ashley Gore, also known as Ilma Gore in court papers, defamed him, intentionally harassed him emotionally and sexually assaulted him in music, TV and film. Derailed his career. It says he used false pretenses, including a fake letter from the FBI, to persuade other women to come forward with allegations of sexual abuse and coached them on what to say. The lawsuit stated that Wood had only glowing things to say about Manson during their relationship.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Teresa A. Beaudette dismissed the portion of the lawsuit related to the controversial FBI letter, which Wood denied having forged. Beaudette also removed a segment that alleged that Wood and Gore had used a checklist found on iPads for other women to make abuse claims about Manson.
Other parts of the lawsuit remained because they were not subject to Wood’s motion, including the allegation that Gore hacked Manson’s email, phone and social media accounts, creating a fake email to create evidence that he was sending illegal pornography, and “shocked” him, using a prank call to send authorities to his home.
Gore’s part of the suit was dismissed and Manson paid $130,000 in his attorney fees.
