Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood.Photo: Kurt Krieger/Corbis/Getty; Slaven Vlasic/Getty
In a statement shared with PEOPLE, Manson’s attorney Howard King called the ruling “disappointing but not unexpected.”
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“The failure to admit this critical evidence, along with the court’s decision to not consider Ms. Gore’s iPad, the contents of which demonstrated how she and Ms. Wood crafted a forged FBI letter, will be the subject of an immediate appeal to the California Court of Appeal,” he concluded.
“We are very pleased with the Court’s ruling, which affirms and protects Evan’s exercise of her fundamental First Amendment rights,” Michael Kump, attorney for Evan Rachel Wood, told PEOPLE in a statement. “As the Court correctly found, Plaintiff failed to show that his claims against her have even minimal merit.”
Beaudet set a tentative trial date for May 1, 2024, on Manson’s remaining claims against Wood and Gore, for hacking and wrongful impersonation.
Wood is among at least 15 other women who have accused the rocker of sexual assault.Game of ThronesactressEsmé Biancoalso filed a lawsuit in 2021, though itwas settledin January.
Manson and Wood dated from mid-2006 until early 2011, though the actress has said that she was groomed into the relationship, and likened their romance to being under the influence of his “cult.”
In February, Woodrefuted his claimsthat she manipulated Smithline into making false accusations via screenshots and voicemails.
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“I never pressured or manipulated Ashley Morgan Smithline to make any accusations against [Manson], and I certainly never pressured or manipulated her to make accusations that were not true,” wrote Wood. “It was Ms. Smithline who first contacted me in March 2019.”
Meanwhile, part one of the two-partPhoenix Risingpremiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, and in it, Wood recalled being groomed into a tumultuous relationship with Manson, and said his “first crime” against her was an on-camera rape while filming the “Heart-Shaped Glasses” music video when she was 19.
“It’s nothing like I thought it was going to be,” Wood said about the music video. “We’re doing things that were not what was pitched to me. … We had discussed a simulated sex scene, but once the cameras were rolling, he started penetrating me for real. I had never agreed to that. I’m a professional actress, I’ve been doing this my whole life; I’ve never been on a set that unprofessional in my life up until this day.”
source: people.com
