Marilyn Manson has filed a defamation suit against former fiancée Evan Rachel Wood, alleging that she and her girlfriend conspired to bring him down with a series of coercedsexual abuse allegations.
A rep for Wood did not immediately return PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Wood is among at least 15 other women who have accused the rocker (born Brian Warner) of sexual assault. Three of his accusers, including ex-girlfriendAshley Morgan SmithlineandGame of ThronesactressEsmé Bianco, have filed lawsuits. Manson has denied all allegations, which he has called “horrible distortions of reality.”
Manson later shared the complaint to hissocial media accounts, writing, “There will come a time when I can share more about the events of the past year. Until then, I’m going to let the facts speak for themselves.”
Evan Rachel Wood (L); Marilyn Manson.Steve Granitz/WireImage; Kevin Winter/Getty Images
The complaint accuses Wood and Gore of “forging and distributing a fictitious letter” from an actual FBI agent “to create the false appearance that [Manson’s] alleged ‘victims’ and their families were in danger, and that there was a federal criminal investigation” of him ongoing.
Manson alleges the women sent scripts to prospective accusers and outlined specific abuse claims for them to share, and “made knowingly false statements…including the defamatory claim that [Manson] filmed the sexual assault of a minor.”
Gore is also accused of using Manson’s passwords to hack into his computers, phones, email and social media accounts to “manufacture” evidence that he was emailing illegal pornography.
Manson — who is seeking unspecified damages in “an amount to be determined at trial” —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 a statement to PEOPLE, Manson’s attorney Howard King said the complaint was filed in order to “stop a campaign of malicious and unjustified attacks” on the musician.
Marilyn Manson (left) and Evan Rachel Wood.John Shearer/WireImage
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.”
Kingpreviously denied Wood’s allegation, claiming that Manson “did not have sex with Evan on that set, and she knows that is the truth.”
The actress explained that shewas “scared” to speak out about the incidentat the time, citing violence that would “keep escalating over the course of the relationship.” She said it took her a “really long time” to stop blaming herself and realize what was happening to her.
If you or someone you know has been a victim of sexual abuse, text “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 to be connected to a certified crisis counselor.
source: people.com
