Marilyn Manson's former assistant Ashley Morgan Smithline drops sexual assault allegations, claiming that Evan Rachel Wood manipulated her into lying about the claims.
In February of 2021, Marilyn Manson’s ex-girlfriend, Evan Rachel Wood, filed a lawsuit against him, claiming the singer sexually assaulted her. Shortly after, five other women, including Game of Thrones actress Esme Bianco, a former assistant, and Ashely Morgan Smithline, filed similar suits. The case recently got flipped on its head after Ashely Morgan Smithline came out stating that her allegations were false and she had been pressured into them by Evan Rachel Wood, according to a report by Billboard.
In her new filing, Ashley Morgan Smithline reveals how Evan Rachel Wood and others manipulated her to make a false accusation of sexual assault against the rockstar Marilyn Manson. She claims that after a while, she became convinced that the accusations were true and was unable to remember if the events had actually occurred or were a fabrication. After being repeatedly told that she was just misremembering the events, Smithline slowly became more convinced that they had happened.
That is until last month when Ashley Morgan Smithline fired her lawyer and got her case dismissed. In March of 2022, Marilyn Manson filed a defamation lawsuit against Evan Rachel Wood and another accusor, Illma Gore. In his suit, Manson claimed that the two orchestrated the plan and recruited women to come out simultaneously with...
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