Some three years since the initial court proceedings, Marilyn Manson decided to drop his long-running defamation lawsuit against Evan Rachel Wood.
According to Deadline, the avant-garde rocker has agreed to pay the actress $325,000+ in legal fees.
In February of 2021, Wood identified Manson as her abuser, accusing her former fiancé of sexual assault, psychological abuse, violence, coercion and intimidation. Taking to social media at the time, she accused her former partner of “horrific” abuse, along with allegations of grooming, starting when she was a teenager.
Following Evan Rachel’s public denouncement, other women came forward with similar allegations following Wood’s
In response, the shock rocker denied the accusations, calling them “horrible distortions of reality”, and responded by filing a lawsuit against Wood in March of 2022, citing defamation and emotional distress.
In a statement obtained by Rolling Stone, a representative for Manson said “Marilyn Manson – whose real name is Brian Warner- filed a lawsuit against Ms Wood as a publicity stunt to try to undermine the credibility of his many accusers and revive his faltering career. But his attempt to silence and intimidate Ms Wood failed.”
In January of 2007, the celebrity couple went public with their romance, when Wood was 19 and Manson was 36. Manson subsequently proposed to her in Paris in January of 2010 yet the pair broke off their engagement less than a year later.
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Author: Al Denté