The ongoing legal battle between shock rocker Marilyn Manson (Brian Werner) and actress Evan Rachel Wood won’t likely come to an end any time soon, as the latter released a statement refuting claims that the Westwood star “manipulated” another accuser into making false sexual assault allegations.
Just last week, actress Ashley Morgan Smithline filed a statement in court claiming that Wood pressured her into accusing Manson of heinous acts while they were dating. Though her case had been thrown out by a California district judge back in January due to a procedural issue, she claimed later that she “succumbed to pressure from Evan Rachel Wood and her associates to make accusations of rape and assault against Mr. Warner that were not true.”
At the time, Wood’s attorneys released a statement refuting Smithline’s claims, but Wood herself released a more directed response yesterday through a legal filing in which she references evidence she has that Smithline approached her about her original allegations. According to Rolling Stone, conversations she saved between herself and Smithline revealed the latter to be “wholly unreliable.”
“In Monday’s filing, obtained by Rolling Stone, Wood denied ever manipulating model Ashley Morgan Smithline and provided Instagram screenshots of comments from Smithline left on Wood’s Instagram in 2019, messages between Smithline and Wood where the model stood by her accusations against Manson, and a 2022 voicemail from Smithline to a friend in...
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