A lawsuit accusing musician Marilyn Manson of “childhood and adult sexual abuse, sexual battery, assault and molestation” was filed in New York on Monday.
Manson’s former label, Interscope Records and Nothing Records, are also named as defendants in the lawsuit filed in Nassau County and accused of “protecting, promoting, and profiteering from” his alleged conduct.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of a Jane Doe, alleges Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, sexually assaulted her on his tour bus after an all-ages concert in 1995, when she was 16 years old. Manson also allegedly threatened to kill her and her family if she told anyone, the suit alleges.
Manson groomed the plaintiff, the lawsuit alleges, encouraging her to send explicit pictures of herself and her friends. It also alleges he insisted she attend one of his concerts in 1995 in New Orleans, where he also allegedly assaulted her.
The sexual assault continued when the plaintiff was 19 and had moved to Los Angeles to date a member of another band, who had a close association with Manson, the suit alleged. The plaintiff started using drugs and alcohol to self-medicate due to the earlier assaults, and Manson “purposefully and intentionally laid the groundwork necessary to intimidate and control her” as a child and was still able to do so beyond that, according to the lawsuit.
The plaintiff attended a 1999 tour of Manson’s, during which he groomed and sexually assaulted her throughout, the lawsuit alleged. Manson “often coerced Plaintiff to have sex with him and other band members or his assistant at the same time” and provided her with drugs, the lawsuit alleges.
Howard King, an attorney for Manson, called the allegations in the lawsuit “vicious lies” and said his client “will not submit to this shakedown.”
“Brian Warner does not know this individual and has no recollection of ever having met her 28 years ago. He certainly was never intimate with her,” King said in a statement. “She has been shopping…
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