Judge rules Marilyn Manson accuser’s recantation inadmisable in Evan Rachel Wood defamation case

[celja]

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

Comments

[skeetertuskin]

Forged FBI letter? What?

[theactualworst]

Right? Citation needed.

[_clochette_]

The allegation is that as part of her custody dispute with her son’s father she produced a letter from an FBI agent stating that she was a witness to an ongoing investigation that put her and her son at risk, justifying her moving her son to Tennessee. A magazine (I don’t remember which) tried to authenticate it and found there was no agent by that name. I don’t think there’s any official ruling on it yet.

I’m concerned that she’s being given bad advice legally, and I hope that it doesn’t damage her position here, because Manson is a POS and he deserves to go down for what he’s done.

[skeetertuskin]

i mean who the hell would advise her to forge an FBI letter. hopefully it's not true.

[xdecadentx]

Yikes if she forged that.

[dandyxwarhol]

I've read that the agent was a real agent (the name on the letter is Michelle Langer) and she's been on the record that she didn't write it, but the fact that it isn't widely reported in every new story about it makes me go hmm. I only see it in RadarOnline which obviously is a questionable source.

I think ERW's team makes a good point that there is no way for her to know it's faked or not, and without some kind of undeniable proof of her doing it it could have come from anywhere. But I agree with you about her legal team because that response raises a lot of ??? The letter doesn't name Manson or what the investigation is about - so I wonder who gets a letter like that (esp famous people who probably get an insane amount of weird mail) and doesn't follow up with the person like 'wut'?

[where_i_begin]

It's a letter she would have requested herself to help her in her custody battle, not something she would randomly receive.

[dandyxwarhol]

I thought the point is that he was never under investigation by the FBI in the first place, so this letter has no reason to exist?

[where_i_begin]

That might be true as well, I was just responding to your last line. I assume Manson and his team will do whatever is in their power to prove it's a fake (if it indeed is).