Marilyn Manson allegedly groomed and sexually assaulted an underage girl multiple times in the 1990s, according to a new lawsuit. This is the first suit to focus on sex crimes that allegedly took place in the beginning of Manson’s career, while those who have previously sued the singer all accused him of sexual misconduct around 2010.
Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, is listed as a defendant alongside his former labels Interscope and Nothing Records. The plaintiff, now an adult, has submitted the suit anonymously as “Jane Doe.” The filing includes counts of sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress against Warner, and negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress, among other charges, against the labels. The case was filed in Nassau County Supreme Court on Long Island, New York.
In the lawsuit, Doe says she first encountered Warner in 1995 after a Dallas concert when she was age 16. She had waited outside his tour bus with a group of people to meet him, and he allegedly invited her “and one of the other younger girls” onto his bus where he asked their age and school grade and took down their home addresses and phone numbers.
“While on the tour bus, Defendant Warner performed various acts of criminal sexual conduct upon Plaintiff, who was a virgin at the time, including but not limited to forced copulation and vaginal penetration,” the lawsuit claims. The age of consent in Texas at the time was, and still is, 17. “One of the band members watched Defendant Warner sexually assault Plaintiff,” the suit says. “Plaintiff was in pain, scared, upset, humiliated and confused. After he was done, Defendant Warner laughed at her. … Then Defendant Warner demanded Plaintiff to ‘get the fuck off of my bus’ and threatened Plaintiff that, if she told anyone, he would kill her and her family.”
Doe alleges that a crew member gave her a 1-800 number for the band and a password so she and Warner could meet again. She began using drugs and alcohol shortly after the alleged sexual assault, the suit says, and would continue to abuse substances in subsequent years. Doe claims in the suit that Warner would call her and chat with her online asking for explicit photos of her and her friends.
Before the year was up, Warner allegedly convinced Doe, who was still 16, to travel to a New Orleans concert where she met with Warner, who, the suit says, “groomed” her by complimenting her artwork. “Defendant Warner then became more aggressive and again sexually assaulted Plaintiff, including kissing, biting her breast, oral copulation, and penetration,” the complaint says. “After the second assault, Defendant Warner acted in a kinder manner nicer to Plaintiff and told her that he wanted to see her again.” (The age of consent in Louisiana at the time was, and still is, 17.)
Doe continued her contact with Warner and his band. At age 18, she started dating then-Nine Inch Nails drummer Chris Vrenna, who allegedly urged her to move to Los Angeles. While there, she attended a Marilyn Manson concert where a band member encouraged her to attend a 1999 Dallas concert. She also went to the next show, in New Orleans, where a crew member helped her get backstage for an audience with Warner. A member of Warner’s retinue allegedly told her he would continue to give her backstage passes. “The atmosphere backstage always included the availability of large amounts of drugs for her and others to use,” according to the suit. She claims she spent the next four weeks on the road with the group, taking drugs and spending hours with Warner in which he’d “groom, harass, and sexually abuse” her.
During this period, the suit alleges that Warner began tightening his psychological control over Doe, as she continued to accompany him on tour dates. “While she…
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