Judge rules Marilyn Manson accuser’s recantation inadmisable in Evan Rachel Wood defamation case
The judge presiding over Marilyn Manson’s defamation case against Evan Rachel Wood has denied his motion to admit as evidence a declaration from one of his sexual abuse accusers claiming Wood manipulated her into making her initial allegations.https://t.co/5p0toQtiOr
- The FADER (@thefader) March 1, 2023
After the news of Ashley Smithline recanting her abuse allegations against Marilyn Manson (real name Brian Warner) and claiming Evan Rachel Wood manipulated her into making them, a judge has ruled the declaration as inadmissible in Warner's defamation case against Wood and her partner, Illma Gore.
The ruling comes after Wood submitted new evidence that contradicts claims made by Smithline in her recantation. The evidence includes screenshots of comments Smithline made on Wood’s Instagram posts in 2019, text messages between the two in which Smithline maintinas her initial allegations of Warner’s abuse, and a voicemail Smithline left a friend in 2022 insinuating that Warner's attorney Howard King was pressuring her to “turn on the other girls and say it was all a ruse.”
"It is unsurprising that Evan Rachel Wood is desperately fighting to keep Ashley Smithline’s testimony out of court - because she knows the truth will expose her plot to manipulate the women who trusted her in order to destroy Brian Warner," King told Rolling Stone. "Brian Warner never abused anyone. Ashley Smithline has told the truth. It’s sadly predictable that Evan Rachel Wood - someone who has already filed a forged FBI letter under oath in other court proceedings - remains committed to not doing the same.”
Smithline also commented, calling Wood “full of shit” and “saying anything she can to discredit me.”
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