On December 16th 2025, it was announced that the case of Ashley Walters (ex-assistant) brought against her former employer Marilyn Manson (Brian Warner) through her second amended complaint on March 11th 2022, has been dismissed without prejudice. This is because on September 19th 2025, Marilyn Manson and Marilyn Manson Records, Inc. filed a Motion for Summary Judgment, and this Motion was granted on December 16th. Hence the jury trial which was scheduled for the 26th of January will no longer take place. According to court documents, the Motion for Summary Judgment was granted for three reasons: 1. “There is no triable issue of material fact.” The court is saying: Even if we look at the evidence most favorably to the plaintiff, there is nothing a jury needs to decide because the key facts are either undisputed or legally irrelevant. Meaning: The dispute is purely legal, not factual — and the law favors the defendants. 2. “Plaintiff’s claims are time barred.” The court is saying:...
In Evan Rachel Wood's documentary Phoenix Rising , she made a new shocking accusation that Marilyn Manson would drug her, repeatedly rape her in her sleep, and forbade her to use any sort of birth control, which resulted in her getting pregnant and having an abortion. She says that he flew in to New York where she was filming Mildred Pierce to be there for the abortion, but he was far from caring or supportive. "He flew out for the abortion. The second it was over it was like, 'Make me dinner.' And I remember being like, 'I’m supposed to be resting — my body has gone through this trauma ... there’s aftermath here.' And he didn’t care." When it was revealed that Manson apparently forced Evan to cook him dinner immediately after her abortion, the media focused on that detail like a hawk in their headlines: Evan Rachel Wood Says Marilyn Manson Made Her Cook Him Dinner Immediately After Losing Baby ( Radar Online ) Evan Rachel Wood: Marilyn Manson made me...