Rolling Stone magazine investigated allegations of sexual, physical and psychological abuse against the shocking rock singer for nine months. And he confirmed: “Manson is a monster that hides in plain sight.” The artist has already been charged with more than a dozen women. Here are 10 key takeaways from an extensive investigation.
1: Example of Alleged Abuse of Women Before Known
On his first Rolling Stone cover in 1997, Marilyn Manson, the stage name of 52-year-old Brian Warner, an American, described his relationship with his mother as “strange because it was kind of offensive, but on my part.” The rock singer wrote in her memoir that he once attacked her with a bottle of perfume, leaving a scar on her when he thought she had betrayed her father.
Tim Vaughn, who says he was a friend of Manson in the 1990s, recalls how the artist insulted his mother and often yelled at her. One day, Vaughn recalls, “he chased her down the hallway with the microphone stand up. I asked him: “What the hell is wrong with you ?! “He said,” The cow always comes here at the worst times. “
In his biography, Manson wrote about the abuse of a woman he called “Nancy” as part of his early career. The singer kept her on a leash and beat her on stage – “to condemn our patriarchal society, of course, not because he liked to drag a half-naked woman around the stage,” the artist wrote. Manson also stated in the book that he and his bandmate planned to kill Nancy, but then changed their minds.
2: Alleged sexual assault starts in the 1990s.
Three people who called themselves friends of Marilyn Manson in the early 1990s claim that he showed them sexual encounters, which he recorded on a video camera. Russell Vaughn recalls meeting his brother Tim Vaughan, a friend, and Manson one evening. “He showed us a selection of all the girls who ever made him boyfriend,” he says. “And I was very proud of that.” The Won brothers and their friend, who wish to remain anonymous, confirm to Rolling Stone that they saw the video.
3. Violations have been a common source of dark humor for decades.
Former friends say the frequent jokes about Marilyn Manson’s violations started very early and don’t subside. In his 1998 memoir, Manson details the “prank” he played on Jordie White, a former member of his band. I told him, “We will rape you in the parking lot and then crush you with your own car.”
On the 2009 show, the singer told the crowd, “When you laugh after having sex with her, that’s not rape.” A source interviewed by Rolling Stone said, “He used to play with impairments all the time.” Esme Bianco, War of Thrones star and Manson’s ex-girlfriend, confirms: “He loved the idea of rape when he talked about rape. Seeing them in films, he loved it. ” Bianco adds: “Even before I started dating him, he talked about raping me.”
4: Manson seems to take pleasure in pronouncing the word “black”
Many sources told Rolling Stone that Manson “often uses” the word “black” to refer to a black person. “He says it often. He really seems to enjoy saying that word in front of blacks. “
5: The artist is whimsically attached to Nazism
The singer’s fans already knew that Marilyn Manson gravitated towards the totalitarian images of Nazism. Just look at his lightning bolt logo, reminiscent of the SS insignia, or the sinister, chic night porter on his Golden Age of Grotesque LP. But now sources are claiming that his interest in Adolf Hitler’s ideology is deeper than it seems.
Esme Bianco says Manson “beat her with a Nazi whip,” a dish that “he loved to show off to his Jewish friends.” Also, ex-girlfriend Ashley Morgan Smithline, who is suing him for sexual assault, says Manson “demanded” that she “buy as many Nazi souvenirs as she can find.”
“In 2015, Rolling Stone already reported that the artist has an unused can of Zyklon B, a deadly gas that the Nazis used to kill Jews during the Holocaust, at home.
The artist denies the claims of the two accusers, speaks of “trumped-up accounts” and in the court case says it is a “coordinated attack” in which two women “desperately try to combine the imagery and art of the character” shock-rock scene with my special image. “
6. Attacked your employees and group members
Former associates of Manson claim that he can offend his employees. Several people interviewed by Rolling Stone say that Manson “was a master of mind control techniques practiced by cult leaders, and that he asked co-workers, girlfriends, and” female fans “to bully each other and tell him what they said about that “it was an environment in which no one could be trusted,” a source told the magazine.
In 1996, his label’s display turned violent when Manson threw a microphone at drummer Kenneth Wilson, sending him to the hospital. “I play drums and try to read Manson’s mind,” the drummer said. “If I miss a note, I can play it with the mic stem on my head.”
Manson’s representatives declined to comment on the attack, but said, “It is important to note that these events took place on stage during a rock concert.”
Manson also attacked bassist Fred Sablan and threw a heavy mic leg into Jason Sutter’s drums. One day in 2012 in Las Vegas during a tour, there was a mirror incident. “The props didn’t work the way they wanted and Manson tried to break it by hitting the director, who had to be treated at the hospital,” the source said.
7. Jealousy of torture for women more
Former girlfriends claim that Marilyn Manson turned a sound booth in her West Hollywood, California, USA apartment into a “bad girl’s cell” that she used for physical and psychological torture. Manson is said to have often locked his girlfriends in his glass soundproofed cell, forcing them to keep them in forced confinement for hours.
Actress Ashley Morgan Smithline told Rolling Stone that the artist repeatedly imprisoned her in a prison that was the size of a closet. “At first he even pretended it was ‘cool,’” Smithline says, “but then he made it clear that it was a punishment. Even if I screamed, no one would hear me. ” Ashley Morgan Smithline reports: “First you fight and he loves this fight. I learned not to fight his will because it gave him what he wanted. I just dodged myself in my head. “
The artist considers the accusations of the ex-girlfriend “just a lie.”
8: Relationship Started With Love Explosions
Nearly all of the women who filed the abuse charges against Marilyn Manson described a joyful start to their relationship filled with praise and loving gestures. Ex-girlfriend Esme Bianco describes this tactic as “love bombing” – treating someone too well at the beginning of a relationship, thereby paving the way for further violence. “I was flattered,” Bianco said. “Literally the first words he said to me were,“ I’ve been a fan for years. Now I look back and realize that it was bullshit. “
Model Sarah McNeilly, another woman accusing the artist of abuse, reported that Manson told her he loved her a week after they met. “He wanted me to start picking out wedding dresses,” McNeillie says. “He wanted to have a child. I’ve never had a relationship like this, a real fake, ”he says.
From his own personal experience, guitarist Rob Holliday insists that Marilyn Manson has always been the “gentleman behind the scenes” and that he is simply “a sweet and misunderstood outcast.”
9: Manson accused of multiple sexual harassment and physical abuse
Several women – at least ten – have detailed the horrific allegations against Manson in interviews and court records reviewed by Rolling Stone. Smithline claims in his lawsuit that the singer strangled her, strangled her, bit her, engraved the initials “MM” on her thigh and burned her without consent. [sua] sexual gratification ”and that he raped her“ several times ”.
Bianco claims in his lawsuit that their relationship “included a nightmare of drugs, physical abuse and sexual assault.”
Neiley tells Rolling Stone, “Manson threw me against the wall, had a baseball bat in his hand, and said he was going to rip me in the face.”
Former assistant Ashley Walters’ lawsuit alleges that Manson “wanted me to offer myself to his friends,” prompting her to “please them as they please.”
An anonymous woman suing Manson claims the artist threw her to the ground and raped her. “He said that I drove him crazy and made him do what he did,” the lawsuit says. “After the violent actions, he told me:” Never again force me to do this to you. ” Following the alleged assault, Manson reportedly threatened to kill her, saying he was going to “stick my head in,” and brag that he would “get away” with the murder because I was nobody and he was a celebrity who had contacts with the police. “
Manson, through his attorney, denied the “sinister” and “bogus accusations.” The statement reads: “These ominous claims against my client have three things in common: they are all false, they allegedly took place over a decade ago, and they are part of a coordinated attack by my client’s ex-partners and associates that altered the mundane details of his personal life and mutual relations in fabricated horror stories. “
10. Prosecutors gathered in 2020 to share allegations
In October 2020, several plaintiffs, including Walters, Smithline, Bianco, and actress Evan Rachel Wood, met in Los Angeles. The group had a reluctant connection: they all claimed to have been abused by Manson.
Bianco’s body trembled and her eyes were watering as she told the group an episode in which Manson was chasing her around the apartment with an ax and punching holes in the walls, accusing her of being “little him.”
Walters was amazed to hear some of these stories. “I just thought, ‘This couldn’t happen with so many girls,’” she says. “As soon as we started talking, it was clear that we were all pale, I thought I was the only one.”
About three months later, Evan Rachel Wood accused Marilyn Manson of abuse and revealed her name – years earlier, the Westworld actress had testified before the California Judicial Committee on domestic violence, but did not reveal the name of your abuser.
“He started courting me when I was a teenager and he bullied me terribly for years. My abuser’s name is Brian Warner, also known throughout the world as Marilyn Manson, ”wrote Rachel Wood on Instagram. “I am here to expose this dangerous man and call upon the many industries that have enabled him before he destroys more lives.”
Walters, Smithline, and McNeiley were among several women who published allegations of abuse against Manson on the same day as Evan’s exposure to Rachel Wood.
