Content warning: This story accommodates dialogue and outline of sexual assault.
Marilyn Manson has reportedly settled a sexual assault and rape lawsuit together with his accuser every week forward of the case happening trial.
According to a Rolling Stone report, the settlement between Manson and his accuser – recognized solely as Jane Doe to guard her identification – was reached on Wednesday (September 27) and {that a} discover of settlement was filed that day by Doe’s legal professional Adam Wolf. Wolf can even reportedly file a request to dismiss the case inside 45 days.
The lawsuit was first filed in 2021 after Doe, who claims to be an ex-girlfriend of Manson, alleged that Manson raped her in June 2011 when she went to return a key for his condominium, threatening to kill her afterwards.
When contacted by NME for remark after the preliminary lawsuit was lobbied towards the musician in 2021, a member of Manson’s group “strongly denied the accusations”.
Details of the settlement haven’t been revealed on the time of publishing.
Doe has now come to a settlement with Manson, telling Rolling Stone in an announcement: “I used to be absolutely ready for trial and by no means in 1,000,000 years thought I might ever settle, however over the previous two-and-a-half years I’ve silently endured threats, bullying, harassment and varied types of intimidation which have intensified over the previous few weeks.”
“Marilyn Manson attended my deposition, and I used to be compelled to reply seven hours of aggressive questioning with him watching me from throughout the desk. I’ve been advised that this nearly by no means occurs, because it’s merciless, and {that a} fundamental motive for it might be to intimidate and inflict emotional misery on a sufferer,” Jane Doe added.
Doe went on to elucidate: “I by no means cared about cash and solely ever needed justice, but when we had gone to trial, I may have misplaced my proper to anonymity and been victim-blamed on a big and public scale. Most importantly I may have risked dropping the liberty to inform my story, and that’s price greater than something on the earth.”
Howard King, an legal professional for Marilyn Manson – actual title Brian Warner – stated of the settlement to Rolling Stone: “Brian is happy that, simply as earlier lawsuits had been deserted with out cost or settled for pennies on the greenback, this plaintiff has now agreed to drop her swimsuit in trade for an insurance coverage cost representing a fraction of her calls for and much lower than the price to Brian of continuing to trial.”
In the unique 2021 lawsuit, Doe alleged that she had met Warner at a pre-Grammys occasion in 2011. The lawsuit additionally alleges that Manson confirmed Doe a movie titled Groupie – which sources near Manson declare is a “scripted quick movie” – filmed in 1996, which confirmed him tying a younger fan to a chair, forcing her to drink a glass of a band member’s urine and threatening her with a gun.
Manson has over the past two years confronted varied lawsuits and allegations made by over a dozen ladies accusing him of each sexual and bodily abuse. Accusers embody Game of Thrones actress and former girlfriend Esme Bianco, his former private assistant Ashley Walters and ex-girlfriend Ashley Morgan Smithline. The lawsuits filed by Walters and Smithline have since been dismissed, whereas Manson settled with Bianco in January.
Smithline later recanted her accusations and claimed that Manson’s former girlfriend, Evan Rachel Wood — whose preliminary allegation of sexual abuse by Manson in February 2021 led to extra ladies coming forth with allegations towards the singer — had pressured her to make the declare, which Wood later refuted.
Following the accusations, which he has regularly denied, the singer-songwriter was dropped by his label, Loma Vista.
