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Marilyn Manson drops defamation lawsuit against Evan Rachel Wood

Shock rocker, who denied Wood’s accusations of ‘horrific’ abuse and filed lawsuit, to pay her $327,000 in attorneys fees

The shock rocker Marilyn Manson has dropped his long-running defamation lawsuit against the actor Evan Rachel Wood and has agreed to pay her about $327,000 in attorneys’ fees, Deadline reported. Manson denied the accusations, calling them “horrible distortions of reality”, and responded by filing a lawsuit against Wood in March 2022, citing defamation and emotional distress. “Marilyn Manson – whose real name is Brian Warner – filed a lawsuit against Ms Wood as a publicity stunt to try to undermine the credibility of his many accusers and revive his faltering career.

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