In January, a federal court dismissed a sexual assault lawsuit filed against Marilyn Manson (real name Brian Warner) by one Ashley Morgan Smithline, who last month admitted that she’d “spread publicly false accusations of abuse” after being “manipulated” by Evan Rachel Wood. Now, as she fends off a complaint from Manson, Wood is refuting Smithline’s claims.
This latest twist in the convoluted legal showdown just recently came to light in a declaration from Evan Rachel Wood, who Manson is suing for defamation. The shock-rocker and the Raleigh-born actress began an on-again, off-again relationship around 2007 and split (following a brief engagement) sometime in 2010.
In the interest of (relative) brevity – DMN has covered the sexual assault and abuse allegations against Manson in detail – multiple former partners of Manson then came forward with claims of their own. Predictably, the Canton native suffered far-reaching career setbacks (and faced a number of investigations) as a result of these allegations.
Furthermore, Manson continues to battle lawsuits from other accusers – January saw the artist settle a complaint levied by Esme Bianco while also being named in a different action yet. Additionally, the five-time Grammy nominee sued Wood for defamation in March of 2022, as noted, maintaining that she’d orchestrated an “organized attack” of fabricated sexual assault accusations.
And it’s in the latter courtroom confrontation that Wood is pushing back against the idea that...
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