Actress Evan Rachel Wood's girlfriend Illma Gore has denied accusations she coerced a woman to accuse Marilyn Manson of assault.
Manson is suing West World star Wood and Gore for defamation over what he calls 'malicious' and 'false' sexual abuse allegations which 'derailed his successful music, TV and film career.'
Wood, 34, has claimed Manson 'brainwashed and manipulated her into submission' and 'started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years.'
Manson's attorney, Jackson Trugman, said in late September in court Gore used an allegedly forged FBI letter to recruit other women into accusing his client of abuse.
Gore, in newly-filed court documents, denied Manson's claims and said she was reaching out to his exes and other women for a documentary, Phoenix Rising.
Actress Evan Rachel Wood's (pictured left) girlfriend Illma Gore (pictured right) has denied accusations that she coerced a woman to accuse Wood's former partner, shock-rocker Marilyn Manson, of assault
The two-part series that premiered in March on HBO details Wood's claims of Manson's abuse and lobbies for the passage of the Phoenix Act, which would extend the statute of limitations for domestic violence cases in California.
A visual artist, Gore said there is 'no evidence of a single woman' being coerced into accusing Manson and added that she told any women who came forward that they were under 'no pressure,' according to Radar Online.
She claimed that Manson is simply 'distressed'...
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