Courtney Balcombe

News Editor

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Bryan Warner or more famously known as Marilyn Manson, was arrested by California police for an outstanding warrant in October 2019, however, the warrant was not released to the public until May 2021.

According to The New York Times, Warner is wanted in New Hampshire for two misdemeanor accounts of simple assault involving a videographer at a concert held at the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion in Gilford in 2019, the police said on August 31st, 2021.

The incident involved Manson allegedly spitting at a videographer during a concert. Manson is facing a potential jail sentence, a maximum of one year and a maximum fine of $2,000.

A lawyer for Mr. Manson, Howard King, said in an email: “It is no secret to anyone who has attended a Marilyn Manson concert that he likes to be provocative on stage, especially in front of a camera. This misdemeanor claim was pursued after we received a demand from a venue videographer for more than $35,000 after a small amount of spit came into contact with their arm. After we asked for evidence of any alleged damages, we never received a reply.”

King continued by calling the claim “ludicrous” but continuing to cooperate with the police.

Manson is also facing four lawsuits from different women alleging sexual assault. He has been dropped by his record label and his agents, he was even cut from television guest roles after Esmé Bianco, an actress known for her work on “Game of Thrones,” filed a lawsuit in April in which she accused Mr. Manson of sexual assault and sexual battery and described a series of violent incidents that she said had occurred when they lived together in 2011.

This was not the first lawsuit against Manson, it came nearly three months after Evan Rachel Wood, the Emmy-nominated star of “Westworld” and another of Mr. Manson’s former partners had accused the singer of domestic abuse, rape, and assault.

According to Billboard, in February, Westworld star Evan Rachel Wood named Marilyn Manson as her alleged abuser.

“I am here to expose this dangerous man and call out the many industries that have enabled him before he ruins any more lives. I stand with the many victims who will no longer be silent,” Woods shared via Instagram on February 1st, 2021.

Wood and Manson had a relationship when the actress was 18 and Manson was 36, the pair were briefly engaged in 2010.

Mr. Manson denied Ms. Wood’s claims broadly in an Instagram post: “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 entirely consensual with like-minded partners. Regardless of how — and why — others are now choosing to misrepresent the past, that is the truth.”

More recently, model Ashley Morgan Smithline says was subjected to rape, sexual assault, bodily harm, and unlawful imprisonment, amongst other allegations. Saying Manson “repeatedly threatened” her life, saying he would “find her” and “kill her if she left him,” she said in court documents filed in Los Angeles.

Smithline said Manson first contacted her in the summer of 2010, asking for photographs and saying he wanted to cast her in a film.

According to BBC and the court documents, Manson soon became “infatuated” with her and said she “was the perfect girl for him”.

In November 2010, Manson flew Smithline to Los Angeles, saying he had cast her in a remake of the Patricia Arquette movie True Romance, she claims. Soon after she arrived, he asked her to move into his apartment and they began a consensual sexual relationship.

“However, it quickly became apparent that consensual sex was not enough for Mr. Warner,” the legal case states.

Smithline alleges that, on one occasion, she “awoke from unconsciousness” to find she was being sexually assaulted.

While Manson has not been charged for any of these court cases yet, the outcome is unknown at this time.