Marilyn Manson now owes nearly $500k to defendants in failed defamation case
Manson now owes Evan Rachel Wood and artist Illma Gore a total of $496,364 in legal fees after his defamation charges against them were thrown out
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Brian “Marilyn Manson” Warner now owes nearly $500,000 to women he’s accused of defaming him, Rolling Stone reports. Specifically, Warner suddenly finds himself staring down a $326,956 bill to actor Evan Rachel Wood, and another $169,408 payment due to artist Illma Gore, both amounts thanks to a California anti-SLAPP statute that says that “defendants unfairly sued for exercising their rights of free speech and petition can recover their attorney’s fees and costs from the plaintiff.”
Warner sued both women for defamation back in 2022, in relation to very public allegations that he’d committed acts of domestic abuse and sexual assault. A California judge doesn’t appear to have found those accusations of defamation terribly compelling, though, having shot down Warner’s claims that things like talking to other prospective accusers, talking about their experiences in support groups, or (in Gore’s case) expressing suspicions that a film Warner made contained instances of child abuse and child pornography, qualified as defamation. Some of the charges Warner has leveled against Wood and Gore in his lawsuit do still stand, though, including accusations that they broke into his computer, impersonated him on the internet, and subjected him to a “swatting” attempt.
Wood, especially, has been vocal in her criticisms of Warner since 2021, when she came forward and named the artist, who she had a long romantic relationship with, as the abuser she’d previously mentioned in a number of stories, accusing him of a number of fairly horrific incidents of physical abuse and sexual assault. She also put out a rallying cry for other women to come forward: Ultimately, more than a dozen women did so, with allegations of abusive behavior against Warner. (Although it’s worth noting that at least one accuser eventually recanted, accusing Wood of pressuring her into making a claim—an assertion Wood refuted.)
A judge awarded Wood her portion of the anti-SLAPP payments last month; Gore’s total was handed down this week. Warner is reportedly attempting to appeal both of the payouts.
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Good, and might I add, fuck this guy.
Well, hold on, let’s take a moment to consider his contributions to the musical cannon…. ok, you’re right.. Fuck this guy.
Kids: Everyone over 23 knows your edginess is theatre but that doesn’t mean you have to “prove” us wrong by committing illegal acts. Unless we ARE wrong in which case you aren’t being avant-garde provacateurs; you’re a criminal.
I’d argue low hanging edgelord fruit, right-wing red meat along the lines of “uhhh, a picture of the pope, covered in feces, uhhh holding a dead baby” was never avant garde, at least by the 90sGo full gg allin then we’re talking
Allin is the same as Manson. All shock, no substance. You just think it’s cooler cuz it happened when you were young enough to be impressed by it.
not an unfair observation, dying younger adds to the mystique too
He looks like a goth nick cage in this photo.
And now we wait for those MAGAts to make Manson their cause de celebre, claiming that this case represents the cancellation of “real men” and promoting wokeness.
You what ever you are, are an imbecile. It’s stupidity like this that will lead to the end of this page. So we got that going for us.
Cry harder babydick
Oh dear, a MAGAt is watering my garden with his tears already.
Why didn’t his defense just say every one of the women did a poopy-woopy on the beddy-weddy. Would have worked like a charm.
Saw him open for Nine Inch Nails years ago. Still remember his grand idea of telling ‘jokes’ like “I got this lipstick (smears on face) from a ten year old in the lobby. He was BLOWING ME.”Class act, this one.
I started to read your comment and was like “saw him open for Nine Inch Nails”… does Nine Inch Nails need his internal organs or something?
I blame drugs. It was during the ACTUAL “Downward Spiral” of his “Downward Spiral” tour, pre-sobriety. He took Manson on as something of a protege.
So everyone jumps on the accused I see like with Depp until we learned how Amber Heard was a bipolar psychopath who was actually the abuser. Maybe that’s the same situation here? Maybe not and Mr. Warner needs to be locked up. But women DO LIE about being abused or raped and it’s become increasingly common. Look up the Duke Lacrosse case or the Yale Mattress case.