Marilyn Manson – Responds To Ex-Band Member’s Allegations/Lawsuit
After a previous story where ex-MARILYN MANSON keyboardist Stephen Gregory Bier Jr. (a.k.a. Madonna Wayne Gacy) claimed Manson has been using the band’s money to fund his lavish lifestyle, drug habit, and the production of his upcoming film, among other things, Manson responded to the allegations in an exclusive interview with MTV News on Thursday. “The fact that he’s claiming that I’ve treated him unfairly, financially, is really ridiculous,” the singer said. “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,” he laughed, before continuing. “[Bier and his lawyers are] going for shock value, obviously, and I couldn’t be less surprised by how unshocking these things would be to the public.”
Manson, who noted that he hasn’t yet seen the suit, said he will defend himself against the allegations; he added that he hasn’t heard from Bier in more than a year. He claimed he and others in the MANSON organization attempted to contact the keyboardist to work on this year’s Eat Me, Drink Me LP, but when Bier did respond, it was with hostility.
“It’s all a big question mark to me,” Manson said. “I don’t feel like this compares to any prior ex-bandmember situations, because those were all very clear conflicts, where somebody didn’t get along with someone else. And this is just a situation where I stopped hearing from him, and I started making a record and kept trying to get him involved, and the only thing that came after that was hostility during a period where I could have used close friends more than ever.” Manson revealed back in May that he had contemplated suicide this past winter.
“I wish there was some sort of legal angle to this whole thing, or some sort of common sense, or just even camaraderie after all the years that we knew each other,” Manson added. “I don’t have an explanation for it. 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.”
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Not sure how this will fall out, but the band that sold all those records, booked all those shows, and rode out the post-Columbine backlash WAS called “Marilyn Manson” and not “Madonna Gacy”.