Marilyn Manson has determined to drop the lawsuit he filed in 2022 towards Evan Rachel Wooden and Illma Gore, as reported by Rolling Stone and confirmed by Pitchfork. Manson has additionally agreed to reimburse Wooden nearly $327,000 in attorneys’ charges, in response to Wooden’s authorized crew. (Earlier this yr, a decide had dominated that Manson needed to pay Wooden’s authorized charges.)

In a press release, certainly one of Wooden’s attorneys, Michael J. Kump, said, “Marilyn Manson—whose actual title is Brian Warner—initiated a lawsuit towards Ms. Wooden as a publicity stunt in an try and discredit his quite a few accusers and revive his waning profession. Nonetheless, his efforts to intimidate and silence Ms. Wooden had been unsuccessful. Because the court docket rightly decided, Warner’s claims had been baseless. Warner’s current determination to dismiss his lawsuit and canopy Ms. Wooden’s full charge quantity of practically $327,000 solely serves to bolster this truth.”

When contacted by Pitchfork, Manson’s lawyer, Howard E. King, commented, “After enduring a four-year battle the place he might share the reality, Brian is relieved to drop his ongoing claims and enchantment to carry closure to this chapter of his life.”

In his preliminary criticism, Marilyn Manson alleged that Evan Rachel Wooden and Illma Gore (known as Wooden’s “on-again, off-again romantic companion”) schemed to painting him publicly “as a rapist and abuser—a dangerous lie that has derailed Warner’s profitable music, TV, and movie profession.” He additionally claimed that Gore particularly defamed him with statements made concerning the manufacturing of his “Groupie” music video.

Moreover, Manson said within the lawsuit that Wooden and Gore “stealthily recruited, coordinated, and pressured potential accusers to come back ahead concurrently with claims of rape and abuse towards Warner.” Moreover, he alleged that Wooden and Gore impersonated an FBI agent “to manufacture the misunderstanding that Warner’s supposed ‘victims’ and their households had been in peril, and that there was an ongoing federal felony investigation towards Warner.”

Final yr, a decide dismissed a few of Manson’s claims, together with his assertion that Wooden and Gore enlisted ladies to accuse him of misconduct.

In 2021, Evan Rachel Wooden publicly accused Marilyn Manson of being her alleged abuser, asserting that the musician groomed and subjected her to “horrific abuse” through the years. She additional detailed her alleged experiences with Manson within the Phoenix Rising documentary, claiming that he tortured her and in addition “basically raped” her through the filming of a music video.

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