Marilyn Manson’s former assistant has accused him of sexual assault and battery in a new lawsuit

• Ashley Walters, Marilyn Manson's former assistant, filed a lawsuit against the singer on Tuesday.
• The complaint alleges that Manson sexually assaulted, battered, and harassed Walters, per The Cut.
• Walters also accused Manson of offering her "up to his influential industry friends and associates."
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Marilyn Manson's former assistant has accused him of sexual assault, battery, and harassment in a new lawsuit, according to The Cut.

Ashley Walters filed a lawsuit against Manson in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County on Tuesday.

According to the lawsuit seen by The Cut, Walters alleges Manson threatened her, sexually assaulted her, and abused her.

She also accuses Manson of forcing her to work for two days straight, during which she says she feared Manson's angry outbursts.

Insider reached out to a lawyer representing Manson, but did not immediately get a response.

Walters is one of more than a dozen women - including Manson's ex-fiancée Evan Rachel Wood and ex-girlfriend Esmé Bianco - who have accused Manson of being abusive. In late April, Bianco was the first woman to take legal action against the singer when she sued him for sexual assault.

Manson has previously denied the women's allegations of abuse, calling them "horrible distortions of reality" in an Instagram statement he released in early February.

Walters first met Manson in 2010 after he contacted her via social media about a potential collaboration, she told The Cut. She was 26 at the time.

The first visited the singer's home in West Hollywood, she said he asked her to stay late into the night for a photo shoot.

Walters agreed to pose for him and said the musician proceeded to pin her down on the bed, bite her ear, and place her hand in his underwear. She said he relented after she managed to roll off the bed, which led her to question whether or not the interaction was sexual assault.

Three months later, Manson asked Walters to be his personal assistant, an opportunity she said she couldn't pass up - financially or professionally. She alleged that constant threats (including a photo of Bianco's cut-up back) and violent outbursts followed.

"You just put your head down and you're in survival mode," she told the Cut. "At the time I felt isolated, like I couldn't go anywhere."

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In the lawsuit, Walters also accused Manson of pushing her onto his "influential industry friends and associates." She said the singer "pushed" her onto the lap of an actor, who kissed her. The following month, she alleged that Manson introduced her to a director that put his hand up her skirt while covering her mouth.

"It made me feel like I was his property," Walters said. "It just made me feel like a piece of meat."

The photographer said Manson grew nervous that she would speak publicly about his behavior in 2011 and began speaking negatively about her to his colleagues. In another attempt to dissuade Walters from coming forward, she said he made her and several other individuals pose for pictures wearing Nazi paraphernalia.

Manson ultimately fired Walters, she told The Cut. Though they didn't leave their relationship on positive terms, he tried to patch it up soon thereafter. Walters responded, reasoning that it was better to "have him as a friend as opposed to an enemy."

It wasn't until she heard Evan Rachel Wood detail her experience of sexual abuse in a 2018 testimony in front of Congress that she decided to go public. Though the "West World" actress hadn't named her abuser, Walters said she knew Wood was speaking about Manson.

Two years later, Walters said a group of the singer's exes reached out to her. They began exchanging stories.

"A lot of the isolation and a lot of the psychological abuse was very similar to what I experienced," she told The Cut. "Once I realized how many people had been affected, I couldn't sit by and let this happen to anyone else."