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Marilyn Manson Drops Lawsuit Towards Evan Rachel Wooden, Agrees to Pay Authorized Charges


Marilyn Manson is dropping a lawsuit that he filed, in 2022, in opposition to Evan Rachel Wooden and Illma Gore, Rolling Stone studies and Pitchfork can affirm. Manson has additionally agreed to reimburse Wooden almost $327,000 in attorneys’ charges, her crew says. (A decide dominated earlier this 12 months that he needed to pay Wooden’s authorized charges.)

In a press release, certainly one of Wooden’s attorneys, Michael J. Kump, mentioned, “Marilyn Manson—whose actual identify is Brian Warner—filed a lawsuit in opposition to Ms. Wooden as a publicity stunt to attempt to undermine the credibility of his many accusers and revive his faltering profession. However his try and silence and intimidate Ms. Wooden failed. Because the trial court docket appropriately discovered, Warner’s claims have been meritless. Warner’s determination to lastly abandon his lawsuit and pay Ms. Wooden her full charge award of just about $327,000 solely confirms as a lot.”

When reached by Pitchfork, Manson’s lawyer, Howard E. King, said, “After 4 years of preventing a battle the place he was capable of inform the reality, Brian is happy to dismiss his still-pending claims and attraction with a view to shut the door on this chapter of his life.”


In his authentic grievance, Marilyn Manson claimed that Evan Rachel Wooden and Illma Gore (described as Wooden’s “on-again, off-again romantic associate”) conspired to forged him publicly “as a rapist and abuser—a malicious falsehood that has derailed Warner’s profitable music, TV, and movie profession.” He additionally alleged that Gore, specifically, defamed him with statements she made in regards to the filming of his “Groupie” music video.

Elsewhere within the lawsuit, Manson claimed that Wooden and Gore “secretly recruited, coordinated, and pressured potential accusers to emerge concurrently with allegations of rape and abuse in opposition to Warner.” As well as, he mentioned that Wooden and Gore impersonated an FBI agent “to create the false look that Warner’s alleged ‘victims’ and their households have been in peril, and that there was a federal prison investigation of Warner ongoing.”

Final 12 months, a decide struck down a few of Manson’s claims, together with his allegation that Wooden and Gore recruited girls to accuse him of wrongdoing.


Evan Rachel Wooden publicly named Marilyn Manson as her alleged abuser in 2021, claiming that the musician groomed and “horrifically abused” her for years. She spoke additional about her alleged experiences with Manson in the Phoenix Rising documentary, alleging that he tortured her and in addition “primarily raped” her throughout the filming of a music video.


For those who or somebody you already know has been affected by sexual assault or home abuse, we encourage you to achieve out for help:

RAINN Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline
https://www.rainn.org
1 800 656 HOPE (4673)

Disaster Textual content Line
SMS: Textual content “HELLO” or “HOLA” to 741-741

The Nationwide Home Violence Hotline
https://thehotline.org
1-800-799-SAFE (7233)

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