By Associated Press
LOS ANGELES: Authorities searched the house of rocker Marilyn Manson on Monday, November 29, 2021, after allegations of bodily and sexual abuse by a number of girls.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s Deputy Eva Jimenez mentioned a search warrant was served on the house of Manson, whose authorized identify is Brian Hugh Warner. She would give no additional particulars.
The Sheriff’s Department mentioned in February that its detectives had begun investigating Manson over stories of home violence between 2009 and 2011 in West Hollywood, the place he lived on the time.
The girls concerned weren’t recognized, however a number of girls have publicly alleged this yr that they had been bodily, sexually and emotionally abused by Manson across the time of the incidents below investigation, and a few have filed lawsuits.
Manson’s legal professional Howard E. King declined fast remark. Manson has denied the allegations, and King has known as them “provably false.”
The search of Manson’s house 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 primary time in an Instagram submit in February.
Manson known as Wood’s statements “horrible distortions of reality.”
In May, “Game of Thrones” actor Esmé Bianco sued Marilyn Manson in federal courtroom, alleging sexual, bodily and emotional abuse. Bianco says that Manson violated human trafficking regulation by bringing her to California from England for non-existent roles in music movies and films.
Manson disadvantaged Bianco of meals and sleep, locked her in a bed room, whipped her, gave her electrical shocks and threatened to enter her room and rape her throughout the night time, the lawsuit alleges.
Bianco’s legal professional mentioned she additionally was interviewed by regulation enforcement.
And Manson’s former assistant accused him of sexual assault, battery and harassment in her personal lawsuit, saying he used “his position of power, celebrity and connections to exploit and victimize during her employment.”
Manson emerged as a musical star within the mid-Nineties, referred to as a lot 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.”