Manson reaches settlement with former keyboard player

Marilyn Manson has reached an out of court settlement with former keyboard player Stephen Bier.

Bier, who went by the stage names Madonna Wayne Gacy and Pogo, filed a suit in November 2007 claiming that Manson spent the band’s royalties on Nazi paraphernalia, a $150,000 engagement ring for ex-wife Dita Von Teese, African masks made of human skin, a full skeleton of a four-year-old Chinese girl that Manson is said to have turned into a chandelier and another skeleton of a man in a wheelchair.

Bier was seeking a $20 million dollar settlement. Manson counter sued claiming that Bier did not fulfil his obligations to the band.

According to a hearing on December 11, the parties had reached an out of court settlement, however Judge Michael L. Stern has not yet dismissed the case because there is still the matter of $72,000 in unpaid attorneys' fees left over from another case where law firm Grodsky & Olecki represented both Bier and Manson when they were involved in litigation with an undisclosed a third party.