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  • West Hollywood home of musician Marilyn Manson raided in sexual abuse investigation

    By Associated Press

    LOS ANGELES: Authorities searched the home of rocker Marilyn Manson on Monday, November 29, 2021, after allegations of physical and sexual abuse by several women.

    Los Angeles County sheriff’s Deputy Eva Jimenez said a search warrant was served on the home of Manson, whose legal name is Brian Hugh Warner. She would give no further details.

    The Sheriff’s Department said in February that its detectives had begun investigating Manson over reports of domestic violence between 2009 and 2011 in West Hollywood, where he lived at the time.

    The women involved were not identified, but several women have publicly alleged this year that they were physically, sexually and emotionally abused by Manson around the time of the incidents under investigation, and some have filed lawsuits.

    Manson’s attorney Howard E. King declined immediate comment. Manson has denied the allegations, and King has called them “provably false.”

    The search of Manson’s home was first reported by TMZ.

    The 52-year-old shock rocker’s former fiancee, “Westworld” actor Evan Rachel Wood, named him as her abuser for the first time in an Instagram post in February.

    Manson called Wood’s statements “horrible distortions of reality.”

    In May, “Game of Thrones” actor Esmé Bianco sued Marilyn Manson in federal court, alleging sexual, physical and emotional abuse. Bianco says that Manson violated human trafficking law by bringing her to California from England for non-existent roles in music videos and movies.

    Manson deprived Bianco of food and sleep, locked her in a bedroom, whipped her, gave her electric shocks and threatened to enter her room and rape her during the night, the lawsuit alleges.

    Bianco’s attorney said she also was interviewed by law enforcement.

    And Manson’s former assistant accused him of sexual assault, battery and harassment in her own lawsuit, saying he used “his position of power, celebrity and connections to exploit and victimize during her employment.”

    Manson emerged as a musical star in the mid-1990s, known as much for courting public controversy as for hit songs like “The Beautiful People” and hit album’s like 1996’s “Antichrist Superstar” and 1998’s “Mechanical Animals.”

  • Judge dismisses one of Marilyn Manson’s sexual abuse lawsuits due to expired statute of limitations

    By ANI

    WASHINGTON: American singer and songwriter Marilyn Manson, who has been accused of sexual abuse and physical violence by multiple women, recently had a minor win, after a sexual abuse lawsuit against him was dismissed due to the expiration of the statute of limitations on his accuser’s claims.

    According to People magazine, court documents obtained by the outlet suggest that a Los Angeles judge dismissed the case after ruling that the 52-year-old rocker’s accuser, listed as ‘Jane Doe’, made claims in her lawsuit that are “not sufficient to invoke the delayed discovery rule” to get around the lapsed statute of limitations period.

    The woman had alleged that Manson (born Brian Warner) raped and sexually abused her multiple times during their relationship in 2011, but that she had “repressed” her memories until this February when several women came forward to publicly accuse the singer of sexual and physical abuse.

    However, according to court documents, a judge ruled on Tuesday that the woman’s complaint “alleges neither when the repression began, such as immediately after the events took place, or outside the limitations period, nor its nature or extent, such as what memories were repressed or the extent to which Plaintiff was prevented from recalling them.” The woman has been granted 20 days by the court to refile the lawsuit and address the judge’s concerns.

    The woman’s attorneys Adam Wolf and Tracey Cowan, in a statement to People magazine, said, “Marilyn Manson wants to silence our client about her rape. He tried to use technical legal arguments to get her case thrown out altogether. The judge thoughtfully analyzed the case law, and rightfully held that her case can go forward, so long as she amends her Complaint to add some additional details.”

    “We intend to amend with those additional details very shortly, and look forward to the opportunity to make Manson answer for his actions,” continued the statement.

    As per People magazine, the ‘Beautiful People’ artist is currently facing three other lawsuits from women who allege to have been sexually abused by him in the past, including his ex-girlfriend Ashley Morgan Smithline and ‘Game of Thrones’ actor Esme Bianco. At least 15 women have publicly accused Manson of sexual assault, which he has denied.

    Manson previously addressed the accusations against him on Instagram, saying that his “intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual with like-minded partners,” calling the women’s claims “horrible distortions of reality.”