Marilyn Manson drops lawsuit against Evan Rachel Wood

Marilyn Manson has dropped his defamation suit against actress Evan Rachel Wood.

The 55-year-old rocker agreed to pay him more than $325,000 (309,000 euros) in legal costs, according to Deadline.

In February 2021, Evan Rachel Wood identified her ex-fiancé as her attacker, accusing him of sexual assault, psychological abuse, violence, coercion and intimidation.

The Westworld star criticized him in 2021 on social networks for “horrible” abuse, as well as psychological manipulation from his adolescence.

Other women accused the singer of similar acts following the public denunciation of the 37-year-old actress.

Marilyn Manson denied the accusations, calling them “horrible distortions of reality”, and responded by filing a lawsuit against Evan Rachel Wood in March 2022, claiming defamatory comments caused him emotional distress and loss of life. numerous contracts.

“Marilyn Manson, real name Brian Warner, sued Ms. Wood in an attempt to undermine the credibility of her many accusers and revive her flagging career. But his attempt to silence and intimidate Ms. Wood failed,” a representative for the actress said in a statement relayed by Rolling Stone.

The two celebrities made their romance official in January 2007, when Evan Rachel Wood was 19 and Marilyn Manson was 36. The rocker proposed to her in Paris in January 2010.

Their engagement was broken off less than a year later.