LOS ANGELES – Detectives have turned over the results of their 19-month investigation into sexual assault allegations against Marilyn Manson to prosecutors, who said Tuesday they need to gather more evidence. evidence before criminal charges can be considered.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement Monday, its investigators turned over records, related to sexual assault and domestic violence allegations between 2009 and 2011 against with the 53-year-old rocker, for the District Attorney’s Office.
The office called the case it received “partial.”
“Once we receive everything, experienced prosecutors will carefully review and consider everything that has been submitted before making a decision to file,” the office said in a statement. Father. “This review will take some time but rest assured that our office takes these allegations very seriously.”
Representing Manson, whose legal name is Brian Hugh Warner, did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but his attorney called the allegations “probably untrue”.
The investigation includes a November search of Manson’s home in West Hollywood, where communications equipment and other items were seized.
Authorities have not yet identified the women involved, but some have publicly allege they were physically, sexually and emotionally abused by Manson around the time the case was being investigated. , and some have filed civil lawsuits.
They include “Game of Thrones” actor Esme Bianco, whose attorney said she also gave interviews to law enforcement.
Manson is suing his ex-fiancée, “Westworld” actor Evan Rachel Wood, whose February 2021 Instagram post alleges he had “terrible abuse of me over the years” causing a stir wave of public accusations against him.
The lawsuit calls her assault allegations fabricated, and says she and another woman used false statements including a forged letter from the FBI to persuade other women to give out.
Wood’s lawyers said in court documents that the lawsuit was futile and an example of retaliation Manson had long threatened Wood with if she spoke out about his abuse.
Manson rose to prominence as a pop star in the mid-1990s, best known for garnering public controversy with hits like “The Beautiful People” and hit albums like “Antichrist Superstar.” ” in 1996 and “Mechanical Animals” in 1998.
The Associated Press usually doesn’t name people who say they’ve been sexually abused unless they go public like Bianco and Wood did.
