The New York Post has revealed more of Marilyn Manson's "sick and disturbing purchases" in the ongoing legal battle from a former bandmate who accuses the singer of squandering his royalties.
Former keyboardist, Stephen "Madonna Wayne Gacy" Bier, who flied a suit against Manson back in August, filed a new complaint yesterday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Bier claims Manson spent his royalties on African masks made of human skin, a full skeleton of a 4-year-old Chinese girl that Manson is said to have turned into a chandelier and another skeleton of a man in a wheelchair. All of which are illegal in the US.
According to Bier, Manson allegedly also purchased swastika wall tiles and matching rugs, a mounted grizzly bear and two mounted baboons as well as alleging that Manson arranged for his girlfriend, Evan Rachel Wood, to star in the Heart Shaped Glasses video for the "highest salary ever paid to any actress in any music video in history."
Bier said that when he requested his share of the band's royalties, Manson "devised a campaign to drive him out of the band and rob him of his entitlement."
Manson has denied the charges.
"The fact that he's claiming that I've treated him unfairly, financially, is really ridiculous," Manson told MTV. "And I would never spend my money on a Chinese girl skeleton. That would be crossing the line. It's a Chinese boy, for the record.
"It just seems like another ex-bandmember suing me and trying to assassinate my personality as a means to financial gain, and it just seems old. It's just not fair. If I spent my money on anything, it was my family, and paying his salary for a year when we weren't even touring."
The case continues.
