UPDATE: Marilyn Manson’s Former Bassist Twiggy Ramirez Releases Statement Following Rape Allegations
ORIGINAL STORY: Marilyn Manson (real name Brian Warner) has announced that he is parting ways with his longtime bassist Twiggy Ramirez (real name Jeordie White), after White was accused of rape and sexual assault by his ex-girlfriend and Jack Off Jill frontwoman Jessicka Addams.
“I have decided to part ways with Jeordie White as a member of Marilyn Manson,” Warner says in a statement.
“He will be replaced for the upcoming tour. I wish him well.”
Earlier this week, Addams alleged that her romantic relationship with White — which began when she was 18 — eventually became physically and emotionally abusive and culminated with rape.
At the time of the allegations, Warner released a statement saying that he “knew nothing about these allegations until very recently” and that he was “saddened by Jessicka’s obvious distress”.
White is yet to respond to Warner’s latest statement about his removal from the band.
Earlier today, Warner revealed that he “wants” to tour Australia off the back of his latest album Heaven Upside Down, but isn’t keen on performing at outdoor festivals.
Marilyn Manson last toured Australia around Soundwave Festival in 2015. The band’s original guitarist, Scott ‘Daisy Berkowitz’ Putesky, also passed away this week at the age of 49.
If you need assistance, 1800 RESPECT – the National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service — can be reached on 1800 737 732, while Lifeline can be reached on 13 11 14.
16 Times Marilyn Manson F*cked With Pop Culture
Times Marilyn Manson F*cked With Pop Culture
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Those bloody stage antics...
Manson completely threw the rulebook (and some would argue, sanity itself) out the window when it came to live performances. His bizarre and grotesque theatrics reached their bloody zenith during a 1995 gig in San Francisco where he plunged a broken beer bottle into his own chest, leaving him with -- as he recalls in his autobio -- "one of the deepest and biggest scars on the latticework that is my torso." -
...Which even got him thrown in jail one time!
In 1994, the singer was arrested at a show in Florida for allegedly "jacking off with a strap-on dildo... and urinating on the crowd". Turns out the dildo was just a figment of police's imagination, and Manson was simply wearing black rubber undies with a "dick hole", as he explains in his book. Nonetheless, his onstage behaviour still earned him a night in the slammer. -
Then, when we expected more sex and gore, he gave us straight fire...
Like the time he teamed up for a surprise duet with Eminem on 'The Way I Am', representing a venomous and unified "fuck you" to a society that vilified their music for its own deep-rooted social flaws. -
... Not to mention some ass
Speaking of MTV, Manson stripped down to shake his bare backside to the shock of fans everywhere back when Miley Cyrus was still in nappies. There may not have been any twerking involved, but it represented a powerful subversion of gender & beauty norms on one of the biggest stages in pop culture. -
... And bewwwbs.
Manson's female, alien-like nude body on the cover of his 1998 Mechanical Animals album was confronting enough to get the LP banned in multiple department stores, including Target. Fucking with society's established ideals of beauty, gender and sexual identity in this way remains one of the shock rocker's greatest achievements. and it's certainly left a lasting impact on pop culture. -
Manson could go from hailing satan one minute...
True story: Church of Satan founder Anton Szandor LaVey requested a meeting with Manson back in 1994, and on the spot decided to make him a certified reverend in the Church of Satan. -
...To chilling with wholesome Disney icon Mickey Mouse the next...
They do share the same initials, after all. -
...To bastardising the visage of said mouse the very next minute
Hear that? That's the sound of Mouseketeers screaming in terror for all eternity. -
Whether it's wiping his arse with the American flag...
Star-spangled bum-rag anyone? -
Or portraying a straight-up white supremacist on 'Sons Of Anarchy', Manson just keeps toying with our expectations.
How good was that show, though? -
And he hasn't just taken over our TV screens, Manson has infiltrated pretty much every corner of pop culture. From movies...
Remember his brief but memorable turn as this creepy guy who gets framed for murder in 1999's dark chick flick Jawbreaker? -
To video games...
Yep. That's Manson who voices the human-hating alien Edgar in the 2005 first-person sci-fi horror shooter game Area 51. -
...To alcohol.
Yep. After years of being obsessed with absinthe, Manson went ahead and started brewing his own. And at 66.6% alcohol volume, Mansinthe is guaranteed to God-Of-Fuck you up. -
But one of the times he fucked with us most was when he let us see him without makeup.
Fans couldn't believe what Marilyn Manson actually looked like under all that paint when he appeared in an episode of comedy series Eastbound & Down, looking like just another regular jackoff. Or, to be more specific, a ginger Severus Snape. -
And despite controversy being the fire that forged him into a bonafide superstar, Manson has never been afraid to stand up against the lynch mob on behalf of his music, or his fans.
Like the time he faced a group of Christian mums head-on during an appearance on American TV talk show Phil Donahue, after they accused him of corrupting their children with his "violent" music. -
In fact, the time he fucked with pop culture the most? Revealing that he's actually a deeply intelligent and well-spoken dude, with some powerful insights into music's relationship with society
Take a gander at his interview in Michael Moore's groundbreaking doco Bowling For Columbine - where he discusses his music being blamed for the horrific Columbine school shootings -- to see this in action. Manson is the demonic poster child for a society that habitually judges books by their covers. But luckily for us, he's proven the naysayers fucking wrong time and again.
