Rocker Marilyn Manson sued his former fiancée, Westworld actor Evan Rachel Wooden, on Wednesday over her allegations that he sexually and bodily abused her throughout their relationship.
The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court docket alleges that Wooden’s allegations have been fabricated, and that she and one other girl named as a defendant, Illma Gore, used false pretences together with a phoney letter from the FBI to persuade different girls to come back ahead with sexual abuse allegations and coached them on what to say about Manson, whose authorized identify is Brian Warner.
The lawsuit, which claims defamation and intentional infliction of emotional misery, says Wooden publicly solid Manson “as a rapist and abuser — a malicious falsehood that has derailed Warner’s profitable music, TV, and movie profession.”
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Wooden and Gore haven’t but filed a response to the lawsuit. An electronic mail to representatives of Wooden looking for remark was not instantly returned.
Manson and Wooden revealed they have been a pair in 2007, they usually have been briefly engaged in 2010 earlier than breaking apart.
In 2017, when the #MeToo motion gained momentum, Wooden mentioned she had been raped and abused, and she or he gave testimony to a Congressional committee in 2018, each with out naming anybody. Then in an Instagram publish in February of 2021, Wooden named Manson, saying he “horrifically abused me for years.”
Manson was dropped by his report label. A number of different girls got here ahead with comparable allegations. No less than three of them filed lawsuits. And police started an investigation of Manson.
An HBO documentary on the allegations premieres March 15.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday says that Wooden had solely glowing issues to say about Manson throughout their relationship, and she or he mentioned nothing of his abusing her for 10 years till she met Gore, an artist whom the lawsuit describes as Wooden’s on-again, off-again romantic associate.
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It alleged that Wooden and Gore engaged in a conspiracy that “recruited, coordinated, and pressured potential accusers to emerge concurrently with allegations of rape and abuse towards Warner, and overtly declare that it took ten or extra years to ‘understand’ their consensual relationships with Warner have been supposedly abusive.”
The lawsuit says the ladies impersonated and cast a letter from an actual FBI agent to create the misunderstanding that girls and their households have been at risk from Manson, who was below federal investigation.
It alleges they supplied checklists and scripts to potential accusers, describing claims to make and the best way to make them.
Copies of the letter and the lists are included as displays within the lawsuit.
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It additionally alleges the ladies hacked Manson’s electronic mail, telephone and social media accounts, created a phoney electronic mail to fabricate proof that he was emailing unlawful pornography, and “swatted” him, utilizing a prank name to ship authorities to his dwelling and draw additional consideration to the allegations.
The lawsuit says that some girls who have been contacted refused to participate as a result of they have been being requested to say issues that have been unfaithful.
“This detailed criticism has been filed to cease a marketing campaign of malicious and unjustified assaults on Brian Warner,” Manson’s lawyer Howard King mentioned in a press release.
Wooden has not taken authorized motion towards Manson. Recreation of Thrones actor Esmé Bianco and Manson’s former assistant Ashley Walters have sued him primarily based on their sexual abuse allegations.
The Related Press doesn’t usually identify individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused except they arrive ahead publicly.
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