Manson

In attendance is De la Huerta’s friend Marilyn Manson; sexual and domestic violence charges against him had just been dropped earlier that day.

Beausoleil, a former Manson associate who was convicted of killing Gary Hinman for a drug deal gone bad, believes that Manson’s motivation behind orchestrating the 1969 killing spree is much more simple.

Ronald Hughes was supposed to be another puppet, a neophyte attorney who would be easily manipulated — or intimidated — to do whatever Charles Manson demanded.

A former assistant, Ashley Waters, also sued Manson, alleging harassment and assault.

The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, accused Wood of hatching plans to manufacture sexual-abuse allegations against Manson and to profit from them, among other claims, according to the complaint.