Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Investigates Domestic Violence Allegations Against Marilyn Manson Billboard points out. “The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Special Victims Bureau is investigating domestic violence allegations involving Mr. Brian Warner also known as ‘Marilyn Manson,’ who works in the music industry,” said a representative from the LA Sheriff’s Department Billboard“The incidents took place between 2009 and 2011, when Mr. Warner lived in the city of West Hollywood.”
Pitchfork has contacted the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for comment.
On February 1, actress Evan Rachel Wood came forward who named Manson as her abuser and said he “had abused” [her] horrific for years ”while they were in a relationship. Although she’d spoken out before about surviving domestic violence, it was the first time she’d mentioned Manson.
Manson responded with a general statement of denial on Instagram. “Obviously my art and my life have long been magnets for controversy, but these recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality,” he wrote. “My intimate relationships have always been completely consistent with like-minded partners. Regardless of how – and why – others choose now to misrepresent the past, that’s the truth. “
After the allegations, Manson’s label, television shows, and booking agency dropped him. Several other women came forward with stories of their own experiences with the singer. Jenna Jameson said in an interview with the Daily mail that Manson had fantasized about burning her alive and biting her during sex without mutual consent. Narrated actress Esmé Bianco New York Magazine Manson had abused her physically and psychologically while they were in a relationship, leaving her with scars on her body and PTSD.
Wolf Alice’s Ellie Rowsell later said Manson had attempted 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 home.
Dita Von Teese, who had been married to Manson for a year, released a statement saying that the other women’s accounts did not “match my personal experience during our 7 years together as a couple.”
Read “Tracing Marilyn Manson’s Blurred Lines Between Shock Rock and Suspected Abuse.”