The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department is investigating allegations of domestic violence recently filed against Marilyn Manson Billboard point it out. ‘The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Special Victims Bureau, is investigating allegation (s) of domestic violence in which Mr. Brian Warner, also known as’ Marilyn Manson ‘, works in the music industry,’ said a LA sheriff’s representative Billboard. “The incidents took place between 2009 and 2011 when Mr. Warner lived in the city of West Hollywood.”
Pitchfork reached out to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department for comment.
On February 1, actress Evan Rachel Wood stepped forward and named Manson as her abuser, saying he had ‘abused’ [her] for years horrible ”while they were in a relationship. Although she had previously spoken out about surviving domestic violence, it was the first time she had mentioned Manson.
Manson responded with a statement of denial on Instagram. “Obviously my art and my life have been magnets for controversy all my life, but these recent allegations about me are terrible distortions of reality,” he wrote. ‘My intimate relationships have always been completely one-sided with partners who think alike. No matter how – and why – others now choose to misrepresent the past, this is the truth. ”
Following the allegations, Manson’s label, television programs and booking agency abandoned him. Several other women came forward with reports of the singer’s heir. Jenna Jameson said in an interview with the Daily mail that Manson fantasized about burning her alive and biting her non-consensus during sex. Actress Esmé Bianco tells New York Magazine Manson physically and psychologically abused her while they were in a relationship, leaving her with scars on her body and PTSD.
Ellie Rowsell of Wolf Alice later said Manson tried to film her skirt with a GoPro camera at a music festival. Phoebe Bridgers added that he once referred to a space as the “r * pe room” in his house.
Dita Von Teese, who had been married to Manson for a year, issued a statement saying the other women’s accounts did not “match my personal experience during our 7 years as a couple.”
Read “Detecting Marilyn Manson’s Blurred Lines Between Shock Rock and Alleged Abuse.”