Marilyn Manson won’t face charges in domestic violence, sexual assault case

Following a four-year investigation, stone prima Marilyn Manson volition not face sexual battle and domestic abuse charges.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced the determination connected Friday, saying the statute of limitations had lapsed successful the lawsuit and that prosecutors “cannot beryllium charges of intersexual battle beyond a tenable doubt.”

“While we are incapable to bring charges successful this matter, we admit that the beardown advocacy of the women progressive has helped bring greater consciousness to the challenges faced by survivors of home maltreatment and intersexual assault,” Hochman continued, thanking the women who came guardant for their courageousness and resilience.

While the identities of the women centered successful the probe were not made wide by prosecutors, the lawsuit is seemingly connected to intersexual battle allegations that resulted successful a 2021 hunt warrant executed astatine Manson’s L.A. home, during which detectives seized aggregate media devices, including hard drives.

At the clip of the search, instrumentality enforcement was already looking into abuse accusations brought against Manson by his ex-fiancée Evan Rachel Wood and “Game of Thrones” histrion Esme Bianco.

Bianco, who sued and past settled a suit with Manson, released a connection connected Friday saying she was “disappointed” by the D.A.’s determination not to bring charges against the shock-rocker, but said she understood the hurdles prosecutors face.

“Once again, our justness strategy has failed survivors,” she wrote connected Instagram. “Not the idiosyncratic prosecutors and detectives who worked for years connected this case, but the strategy that made them bash truthful with 1 manus tied down their corporate backs.”

“I cognize the information of what happened to me. It sits profoundly rooted successful my belly, unshakable, mine. No 1 and thing tin instrumentality that away,” she continued. “So to each the survivors speechmaking this, who are being deed by yet different portion of stinging quality and feeling hopeless oregon discouraged, fto maine punctual you: You cognize your information also.”

Manson, whose ineligible sanction is Brian Warner, has denied each claims of intersexual battle and carnal abuse brought by astatine slightest 16 women going backmost implicit a decade.

Representatives for Manson did not instantly instrumentality a petition for comment.