UPDATE, 8:30 PM: After nearly two years, Marilyn Manson has reached an agreement with Esmé Bianco to end the Game of Thrones actress’ sexual assault and sexual battery case against him.
05.01.2023 - 15:59 / completemusicupdate.com
A sexual assault lawsuit against Marilyn Manson has been dismissed after the woman who filed it – Ashley Morgan Smithline – missed a deadline in the case.Smithline claimed in her 2021 legal filing that the musician had violently assaulted her several times between 2010 and 2013 – allegations he denies.In October, her lawyer was granted permission to step down from the case and the court gave Smithline three months to appoint new representation or officially confirm that she would be representing herself. The case was dismissed by default when that deadline passed yesterday without a response.This is one of a four lawsuits filed against Manson – real name Brian Warner – in 2021, accusing him of multiple sexual assaults.Two of these are still working their way through the courts – one from ‘Game Of Thrones’ actor Esmé Bianco and another from an unnamed woman.
A third, filed by Manson’s former assistant Ashley Walters, was dismissed last year after a judge ruled that the statute of limitations prevented the litigation from proceeding. Walters is currently appealing that decision.Manson maintains his innocence, saying that all encounters were either consensual or have been fabricated.
UPDATE, 8:30 PM: After nearly two years, Marilyn Manson has reached an agreement with Esmé Bianco to end the Game of Thrones actress’ sexual assault and sexual battery case against him.
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