
According to the book, this took place the night before Reznor told Manson that he wanted to sign him to Nothing Records. When Manson was asked by the Empyrean interviewer how he ended up working with Reznor, he told the aforementioned story. Manson,” according to Manson and Strauss’ book. His ex-wife Dita Von Teese made a statement following the allegations, saying she had not experienced abuse from Manson, and that their marriage had ended due to “infidelity and drug abuse”.The passage in question was allegedly part of an unpublished interview with the now-defunct Empyrean Magazine, originally intended to run in the magazine in 1995, but never printed due to “content objections on the part of Empyrean’s publisher, Centaur Enterprises, which believed that the magazine had followed unethical interview procedures in order to extract information from Mr. Los Angeles police were called to the singer’s home on Wednesday night to check on the welfare of the singer, and stated to the Daily Mail there was “no evidence of any trouble whatsoever”.
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The Guardian has contacted his management for comment.įollowing this week’s allegations, Manson has been dropped by his label Loma Vista Recordings, and removed from two US TV series he was due to appear in. Manson has not responded to these particular allegations. Fashion stylist Love Bailey claims he held a Glock pistol to her head in a 2011 incident, and retailer Torii Lynn also alleges that Manson abused her. Model Scarlett Kapella alleges emotional, physical and sexual abuse musician Chloe Black alleges physical and verbal abuse artist and film-maker Louise Keay Bell, who has previously made allegations against the singer, reiterated her claims that he “emotionally and financially abused me”, and harassed her following the initial allegations. Seeing him now, drugs and alcohol now rule his life and he’s become a dopey clown.”įollowing the allegations of the five aforementioned women this week, further women have alleged abuse from Manson. He later cut ties, and in 2009 called Manson “a malicious guy will step on anybody’s face to succeed and cross any line of decency.

Reznor and Manson were once close, with Reznor signing him to his label Nothing Records and co-producing his first two albums. A publisher’s note in the book explains the interview was never printed in Empyrean because the magazine publishers “believed that the magazine had followed unethical interview procedures in order to extract information from Mr Manson”.

The book passage is from an unpublished 1995 Manson interview with Empyrean magazine. I was infuriated and offended back when it came out and remain so today.

As I said at the time, the passage from Manson’s memoir is a complete fabrication.

I have been vocal over the years about my dislike of Manson as a person and cut ties with him nearly 25 years ago. In the wake of the allegations, a passage from Manson’s 1998 autobiography The Long Hard Road Out of Hell began circulating online, in which Manson claims that he and Reznor sexually assaulted a heavily intoxicated woman. He denies the allegations, calling them “horrible distortions of reality”, and saying “my intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual”.
