More than two years after being dumped by his record label following allegations of sexual abuse, Marilyn Manson appears to be teasing new music.
“I’ve got something for you to hear,” reads the caption on Manson’s first Instagram and Twitter posts since March 2022. The singer shared a pair of grainy black-and-white photos credited to his wife Lindsey Elizabeth Warner.
Loma Vista announced in February 2021 that it would not “work with Marilyn Manson on any future projects” after his ex-fiancée Evan Rachel Wood publicly alleged that Manson was a “dangerous man” who “horrifically abused” her for years.
If Manson has new music coming, it will be the first since his 2020 album We Are Chaos.
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The 54-year-old shock rocker, whose real name is Brian Warner, sued Wood in Los Angeles Superior Court in March 2022, alleging defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The lawsuit calls Wood’s allegation of physical and sexual abuse a “malicious falsehood” that has derailed his career.
Manson accused Wood of recruiting “prospective accusers to emerge simultaneously with allegations of rape and abuse … and brazenly claim that it took ten or more years to ‘realize’ their consensual relationships with [Manson] were supposedly abusive.”
Last month, a judge gutted Manson’s lawsuit by dismissing some of his key claims. A trial is scheduled for next year.
Wood has not taken legal action against Manson but he was sued by actress Esmé Bianco and his former assistant Ashley Walters. Bianco’s case was settled and Walters’ was dismissed in January.
Last year, Wood said is “steady as a rock” in the face of Manson’s defamation lawsuit. “I am not scared,” she said on The View. “I am sad, because this is how it works. This is what pretty much every survivor that tries to expose someone in a position of power goes though, and this is part of the retaliation that keeps survivors quiet. This is why people don’t want to come forward. This was expected.”
Wood said she is “very confident” she has truth on her side.
(Manson dismissed the claims as "horrible distortions of reality" and insisted "my intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual with like-minded partners.”)