The model who accused Marilyn Manson says she was swayed by the rocker’s ex-girlfriends into claiming in 2021 she’d been sexually abused.
Ashley Morgan Smithline filed her declaration in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday, according to People. She reportedly described her 2010 relationship with the “Sweet Dreams” singer as a “brief, consensual sexual” one.
Her lawsuit against Manson was tossed by a judge in January. Smithline had no lawyer.
She blamed several women, including actors Evan Rachel Wood and Esme Bianco, for manipulating her into making claims against Manson a decade after her romance with the Grammy nominated performer ended.
Banco and Manson settled a lawsuit in January, People reported. An attorney for Wood reportedly claimed Smithline came to her client to share her story and was “never pressured of manipulated” by the “Westwood” star.
People — which included Smithline in a 2021 cover story — said it corroborated Smithline’s claims through “multiple” sources.
Manson, born Brian Warner, said he “never abused, assaulted, raped, threatened or trafficked” in papers viewed by the celebrity glossy. He and Wood started dating publicly in 2007, when she was 19 and he was 37, according to the Los Angeles Times. That relationship lasted roughly four years.
Prior to dating Wood, Manson was married to a burlesque performer who said on Instagram he never abused her, though “infidelity and drug abuse” ended their relationship.
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