Warrant issued for Marilyn Manson's arrest in connection with 2019 assault
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Marilyn Manson’s a wanted man in New Hampshire. The artist, birth name Brian Hugh Warner, has an active warrant issued by Gilford police for two counts of “class A misdemeanor simple assault” against a photographer at a show in 2019.
The photographer, alleges that the singer spit on her and at one point launched a “snot rocket” at her and her camera. While these claims have been supported by other attendees and a security guard, police wrote in a Facebook post that an “arrest warrant is not a presumption of guilt.” They also say that Warner’s team have been aware of the charges for some time, and “no effort has been made by him to return to New Hampshire to answer the pending charges.”
“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,” Warner’s attorney Howard King says in a statement to PEOPLE. “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.”
The misdemeanor charges, if found guilty, carry a possible jail sentence of less than one year and a fine of $2,000 or less.
This charge carries no connection to the ongoing sexual abuse allegations against Warner, and Gilford police made it clear that the 2019 assaults “are not sexual in nature.” Earlier this month in an interview with PEOPLE, model Ashley Smithline said that Warner sexually assaulted her numerous times and violently abused her over the course of two years.
Another former partner, Game of Thrones actress Esmé Bianco, is currently suing the musician for rape and sexual battery, and accusing his former manger of human trafficking. Warner is also being sued by his former assistant, Ashley Walters, who detailed sexual assault, professional sexual exploitation, manipulation and psychological abuse she endured while working for him in an interview with The Cut. Ex-fiancee Evan Rachel Wood came forward in February, naming Warner as the previously unspecified partner that abused her. In 2019, the actress testified in California under the Phoenix Act to extend her statute of limitations. Among the many allegations levied against him, Wood also said Warner “started grooming [her] when [she] was a teenager and horrifically abused [her] for years.”
Warner has been dropped by his label Loma Vista and his upcoming shows have been cancelled, but he attests that the allegations are “horrible distortions of reality” and described his relationships as “entirely consensual with like-minded partners.”
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Murmuring from the grey, but although this particular treatment of others wasn’t as brutal or invasive as the sexual assault allegations, it’s still helpful to hold the powerful to account for actions like this.Money too often gets used as a shield against the consequences of gross acts like this, and of course, against the consequences of far more invasive actions against others.
get-Al-Capone-on-tax-evasion vibes, except very pathetic.
So when do the New Radicals kick his ass?
I mean, they got to play at a presidential inauguration nearly 15 years after burning bright for 5 minutes of fame and Manson’s heading to jail after a long slow dive into mediocrity. I’d say they kicked his ass.
Check out their story, if you haven’t. Frontman/Songwriter was freaked the fuck out by fame, and couldn’t handle it.
Wow, a normal human being who managed to stay a normal human being after becoming super-90s-famous! Fresh!
And now he has a cushy career as a songwriter/producer, and he has enough of a cult fanbase that the current president even likes his stuff. Dude made out just fine.
I doubt he’s heading to jail on a class A misdemeanor. If he does it’ll be far less than the “up to a year.” Like, just in and out quickly to make a point. I know public opinion is turning on him and for very good reason but that doesn’t affect sentencing. Yet.
Right after…immediately before…DURING the ass kicking by The New Monkees.
Trust me, if he’s playing Gilford N.H. he’s been soundly ass kicked.
Fuck Marilyn Manson and all that, but this seems like a pretty insignificant charge.
“I represent Brian Hugh Warner. In my client’s defense, your honor, he has spent most of his life listening to atrocious, amoral music, and can not be considered to be responsible for these reprehensible actions. The real perpetrator is Marilyn Manson, and my client is merely the tool.”
::whisper whisper::
“A brief recess, your honor?”
*whisper whisper*
“Didn’t he save any of that Wonder Years money?”
*whisper whisper*We agree that your client is a tool.
“We have here an affidavit from one Keenan, Maynard J., asking that he be left out of this.”
You beat me to it by 8 hours, lol.
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– His own worst enemy.
Hey, might as well try it; that argument worked pretty well for Hulk Hogan (as you can tell by the lovely herb garden in which we find ourselves).Not so much for Alex Jones or Sidney Powell, tho.
“Look, for years I staked my career and my image on the idea that I WOULD TOTALLY DO THIS TYPE OF SHIT so I just don’t understand why people believe that I TOTALLY DID THAT SHIT. I’m just looking for justice and a fair shake, people.”Strange that people are having trouble taking Warner’s defense seriously.
It doesn’t look like they’re claiming that the photographer didn’t get spit on.I’m not and never have been a Marilyn Manson fan, yet I’m fully aware and always have been that spitting, snotting, hell even pissing are all part of the performance. If anything, I would say the photographer should be suing the employer who assigned them to a Marilyn Manson show without any warning about what to expect.
Marilyn Warner is wanted for spitting. So let’s use this as an opportunity to recount all the rape he’s accused of!
You are a worthless human.
This puts the plans to revive The Wonder Years in jeopardy.
“Hi Heather, hi Wesley! Where’s Kevin?”“Don’t you remember, Mom? He joined the Altoona Foreign Legion and is fighting in the Spice Wars.”
He is reportedly now engaged in a low speed pursuit by police, riding what appears to be a Mongoose Freestyle BMX.
Spike Lee angirly tweet’s Josh Saviano’s address.
Fred Savage angrily tweets…well who cares what he tweets, Wonder Years is black now.
Unwanted man in Indiana
Unwanted man in Mexico
Unwanted man in Milwaukee
Unwanted man in Buffalo
Warrant issued for mishandling of a Cherry Pie.
I won’t lie, you dragged me right in with that headline.Thanks for wasting my time.
But since he’s rich and white, he can surrender to the authorities whenever convenient.
It’s an out of state warrant for 2 counts of misdemeanor assault nobody gives a shit
god. this generation is nothing but a bunch of whiny babies. just looking for a reason for their turn to play the victim.
Every time I look at him, all I see is a guy who used to get wedgies in his junior high P.E. class. He’s always seemed like that to me.
The people that sides with the photographer are the same people that sides with Jim Morrison taking his dick out? Or they’d side with the police?