Marilyn Manson ‘could face FBI probe after abuse accusations’
MUSICIAN and actor Marilyn Manson could face an FBI investigation over abuse allegations.
One of Manson’s alleged victims, his former fiancé Evan Rachel Wood, on Tuesday shared a letter concerning Manson that Senator Susan Rubio sent to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Acting US Attorney General Monty Wilkinson.
“The alleged victims have named Marilyn Manson, also known as Brian Hugh Warner, as the perpetrator,” Rubio wrote in the dated January 21.
“I ask that the US Department of Justice meet with the alleged victims immediately and investigate these accusations.”
Wood, an actress, shared Rubio’s letter a day after revealing on Instagram that Manson, 52, is her alleged abuser.
Manson's ex-fiancé claimed that she was “brainwashed and manipulated into submission” by him and that the abuse began when she was a teenager.
“'The jarring reality had finally consumed me and I tried to kill myself. I was 5150'd and spent Christmas in the hospital.”
Six other women have lodged allegations against Manson since Wood accused him of “horrifically abusing” her.
In 2016, Wood said without naming a perpetrator that she was a sexual assault survivor, and in 2018 she testified before Congress about being raped.
On Monday, Wood stated that she was "done living in fear of retaliation, slander, or blackmail."
"I am here to expose this dangerous man and call out the many industries that have enabled him, before he ruins any more lives," she said.
"I stand with the many victims who will no longer be silent."
Rubio said in a on Monday that “allegations of physical, emotional, and financial abuse against Marilyn Manson … must be taken seriously and thoroughly investigated."
In an Instagram post on Monday, Manson called allegations against him “horrible distortions of reality.”
“My intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual with like-minded partners," he stated.
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"Regardless of how —and why—others are now choosing to misrepresent the past, that is the truth.”
But hours after Wood came forward with her allegations, Manson's record label Loma Vista Recordings announced it had severed all ties with the rocker.
Manson disclosed part of his troubled past in his 1998 autobiography, admitting that he plotted to murder a former lover by setting her on fire and did not follow through only because a witness has him at the scene.