A choose in Los Angeles has reinstated a lawsuit in opposition to shock rocker Marilyn Manson below a brand new legislation enabling outdated sexual assault circumstances to be heard in court docket.
The lawsuit, filed in Might 2021 by a former assistant to the musician, had been dismissed in December as a result of it exceeded the statute of limitations, a most time interval for initiating authorized proceedings after the associated occasions happened.
However plaintiff Ashley Walters requested the court docket to rethink her case in January, when a brand new legislation mandated a two-year window for the consideration of sexual assault circumstances that had already expired below the statute.
The lawsuit was accepted by the identical Los Angeles Superior Court docket choose who had dismissed it the month earlier than. “I checked out this carefully,” Decide Steve Cochran stated at a listening to on Monday, based on media stories. “I do assume the statute revives the declare.”
Walters alleges that the rocker sexually assaulted her when she labored for his Manson Data between 2010-2011.
She additionally claims that Manson, whose actual identify is Brian Hugh Warner, boasted about raping ladies and even confirmed her a video by which he was abusing a minor woman.
Manson’s lawyer Howard King stated the lawsuit would fail.
“Whereas Ms. Walters made a number of now-irrelevant claims about so-called office harassment, she has no pending claims for sexual assault as outlined within the penal code, as can be required below the brand new legislation, neither is she permitted below the ruling so as to add new claims,” King stated in an announcement despatched to AFP on Tuesday.
“The indisputable fact is that Mr. Warner by no means dedicated any sexual assault,” he added.
A number of ladies have accused Manson, 57, of sexual abuse and assault through the years, together with actresses Esme Bianco and his former associate Evan Rachel Wooden.
A type of circumstances, alleging sexual assault and home violence, was dismissed in January 2025, once more as a result of it fell outdoors of the statute of limitations.
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