Ashley Morgan Smithline recants allegations against Marilyn Manson

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Marilyn Manson in 2021.In an interview with People, Smithline detailed her allegations against the singer, claiming he raped her, cut her and locked her in a glass, soundproofed room.At the start of this year, the sexual assault case was dismissed by a court in California.

The suit was dropped after Smithline’s lawyer withdrew as her representation in October 2022, and she did not meet a deadline of December to acquire new representation or represent herself.Yesterday (February 23), Smithline filed a declaration in Los Angeles Superior Court saying that she was “manipulated” by people including another one of Manson’s accusers, Evan Rachel Wood, to go public with the allegations, which Smithline calls “false”.“I succumbed to pressure from Evan Rachel Wood and her associates to make accusations of rape and assault against [Manson] that were not true,” she wrote in the declaration, as seen by People.She went on to claim that she was “repeatedly gaslit” by Wood, and her new declaration stated that she had a “brief, consensual sexual relationship” with Manson in 2010.“I remember [Wood] asked me whether I had been, among other things, whipped, chained, tied up, branded/cut, assaulted while sleeping, beaten, or raped,” Smithline wrote. “She said all of these things happened to Ms.

Wood and others, and that when Ms. Wood was with [Manson] every moment was a moment of survival.“When I said, no this did not happen to me and this was not my experience, I recall being told by Ms.