The singer is accused of raping a 16-year-old girl and continuing to abuse her for four years, until 1999.
american singer Marilyn Manson was the subject of a complaint this Monday in New York for sexual assault on a minor in 1995, case opened thanks to a legal window that temporarily allows judging this type of cases until now prescribed. The artist, named Brian Warner, 54, is accused of raping when he was 26, at the beginning of his career, a 16-year-old girl whom he met after one of his concerts, and of manipulate and abuse her until 1999 under the auspices of music executives and with the collaboration of its partners. The complaint also implicates the artist’s record labels, Interscope Music and Nothing Records, which are accused of “celebrating and promoting” Warner’s “pedophile obsessions and violent behavior” “for their collective financial gain.”
The document indicates that the complainant was a virgin when Manson the violated for the first time on the tour bus and in the presence of a member of his band, and adds that he later humiliated her, threatened to kill her and her family if she told anyone, and threw her out in bad manners. Despite this, the singer contacted the victim to chat with her, ask her for explicit photos for her fan club and invite her to more concerts, which led her to travel to “numerous cities and states, including New York”, and to be invited to the backstage area and the tour bus.
In 1999, during about four weeks on tour, Manson allegedly again forced the then-19-year-old victim to have sex, “often” forcing her to have sex with “him and other band members or his assistant the time”. “As is typical with a sexual predator, defendant Warner continued to exercise power and authority to maintain control over the complainant. As a result (…) of his continued oppressive behavior, the complainant was unable to defend herself and get out of the abuse “, he adds.
The complaint also indicates that in 2021, the victim posted his story online and suffered reprisals, and believes that the defendant and his wife are turning to a YouTube channel that disparages women who have accused him of abuse to try to silence her. The controversial artist has been accused in recent years of sexual and psychological abuse by more than a dozen women, including actress Evan Rachel Wood, something that he has always denied, assuring that his relationships have been “consensus with couples with similar ideas “. The New York complaint, filed in Nassau (Long Island), calls for a jury trial and different avenues of compensation.