Marilyn Manson, whose authorized identify is Brian Warner, has settled his lawsuit towards Evan Rachel Wooden, during which the musician had alleged defamation a 12 months after Wooden got here ahead with sexual abuse allegations towards him. As a part of the settlement reached on Nov. 19, Manson can pay roughly $327,000 in attorneys’ charges for the “Westworld” star, in line with authorized paperwork obtained by Selection.

“Marilyn Manson — whose actual identify is Brian Warner — filed a lawsuit towards Ms. Wooden as a publicity stunt to attempt to undermine the credibility of his many accusers and revive his faltering profession. However his try and silence and intimidate Ms. Wooden failed,” Michael J. Kump, an lawyer for Wooden, wrote in a press release to press. “Because the trial court docket accurately discovered, Warner’s claims have been meritless. Warner’s choice to lastly abandon his lawsuit and pay Ms. Wooden her full price award of just about $327,000 solely confirms as a lot.”

Warner’s defamation declare alleged that Wooden’s co-defendant, her “on-again, off-again romantic companion” Illma Gore, falsely stated that the musician had employed an underaged actress in a music video and “filmed the sexual assault of a minor.” Within the unique March 2022 submitting, Warner’s legal professionals alleged that Gore had “publicly solid” the musician as a “rapist and abuser — a malicious falsehood that has derailed Warner’s profitable music, TV and movie profession.” The 2022 submitting additionally claimed that Wooden and Gore impersonated an FBI agent “by forging and distributing a fictitious letter from the agent, to create the false look that Warner’s alleged ‘victims’ and their households have been in peril, and that there was a federal prison investigation of Warner ongoing.”

“After 4 years of preventing a battle the place he was in a position to inform the reality, Brian is happy to dismiss his still-pending claims and attraction with the intention to shut the door on this chapter of his life,” Howard King, an lawyer for Warner, stated in a press release.

After Manson’s defamation lawsuit was filed, Wooden’s attorneys — Kump Shawn Holley and Katherine Kleindienst of Kinsella Holley Iser Kump Steinsapir LLP — sought to dismiss the majority of it underneath California’s anti-SLAPP statute, which motions to strike a grievance that arises from exercising free speech First Modification rights. In 2023, the court docket granted the movement and ordered Warner to reimburse Wooden attorneys’ charges shortly thereafter. After interesting the ruling, Warner’s facet allegedly appeared to settle the lawsuit extra favorably, providing a portion of authorized charges to associate with a confidentiality settlement and a “mutually acceptable” public assertion by Wooden. After rejecting that settlement, Warner has now settled the lawsuit and can pay $327,000.

Wooden was certainly one of a number of ladies who publicly alleged sexual abuse towards Warner in 2021. The pair’s relationship turned public in 2007, when she was 19 and he was 38. They have been engaged in 2010, however broke up shortly after. In an Instagram publish on the time, the actor wrote: “The identify of my abuser is Brian Warner, additionally identified to the world as Marilyn Manson. He began grooming me once I was a young person and horrifically abused me for years. I used to be brainwashed and manipulated into submission. I’m performed dwelling in concern of retaliation, slander, or blackmail. I’m right here to reveal this harmful man and name out the various industries which have enabled him, earlier than he ruins any extra lives. I stand with the various victims who will now not be silent.”