One of many three remaining intercourse abuse lawsuits filed in opposition to shock rocker Marilyn Manson was dismissed by a federal decide in Los Angeles Tuesday after the plaintiff, Ashley Morgan Smithline, missed a key deadline.
The court docket beforehand granted Smithline’s prior lawyer permission to withdraw from the case on Oct. 5. It then gave Smithline two months to maintain the case alive by both hiring new illustration or submitting a standing report stating she was able to characterize herself. She by no means responded.
Smithline initially sued Manson, born Brian Warner, in June 2021. She alleged the musician obsessively pursued her on-line, satisfied her to go to him in Los Angeles after which sure and raped her, choked her, put a pillow over her face and minimize her with a knife throughout varied assaults between mid-November 2010 and January 2013.
Warner, 53, denied any wrongdoing, saying his alleged interactions with Smithline and his different accusers have been both consensual or didn’t occur.
Although Tuesday’s dismissal was a ruling by default, Warner’s lawyer claimed it as a victory for the protection.
“We thank and commend Ashley Smithline for dismissing her claims in opposition to Brian Warner with out searching for or receiving something in return,” lawyer Howard King stated in a press release. “Ms. Smithline has refused to be manipulated by others who’re making an attempt to pursue their very own agendas in opposition to Mr. Warner. We want her nicely and can proceed to work to guarantee {that a} important worth can be paid by those that have tried to abuse our authorized system.”
Warner nonetheless faces two different intercourse assault lawsuits from Recreation of Thrones actress Esmé Bianco and a Jane Doe who claims Warner brutally raped her at his residence in 2011 after a tortured relationship.
A fourth lawsuit filed in Could 2021 by Ashley Walters was dismissed by a decide final yr for being past the statute of limitations. Walters is interesting the order.
In her grievance, Walters alleged Warner subjected her to greater than a yr of “sexual exploitation, manipulation, and psychological abuse” after luring her to his residence in Could 2010 with the promise of an expert collaboration.
Warner filed his personal associated defamation lawsuit in March, accusing his ex-girlfriend Evan Rachel Wooden of fabricating claims in opposition to him and taking steps “to recruit, coordinate, and strain ladies who had been linked to Warner to make false accusations of abuse in opposition to him.”
Wooden later stated on The View that she wasn’t “scared” to face Warner in court docket. “That is what just about each survivor that tries to reveal somebody able of energy goes although, and that is a part of the retaliation that retains survivors quiet. For this reason individuals don’t wish to come ahead. This was anticipated,” she stated. “I’m very assured that I’ve the reality on my facet and that the reality will come out.”