Marilyn Manson Accusers Slam Kanye West Over ‘Donda’ Feature

Okayanye West has by no means shied away from consideration or pushing boundaries for the sake of being controversial, but when the rapper decided to feature DaBaby and Marilyn Manson on his new album Donda, lots of his followers had been rightfully shocked and disgusted.

DaBaby is at the moment caught in a shitstorm of his personal making ever since he went on a viral homophobic rant throughout his set at Rolling Loud in July, main a handful of festivals to drop him from lineups and drawing heavy criticism from varied musicians, together with Dua Lipa, who featured him on the remix on her hit tune “Levitating.” (He additionally introduced out rapper Tory Lanez at that very same present, the person who shot Megan Thee Stallion twice, realizing she’d be on the competition.)

Nevertheless it was West’s option to have shock-rock musician Marilyn Manson (actual title Brian Warner) at his aspect for the debut of the tune “Jail pt 2,” which Warner is credited as a author and performer on, that basically felt reckless. The tune’s lyrics are about “violence within the night time,” how we’re “all liars,” and having a rap sheet, as Warner’s voice screams within the background, “Guess who’s goin’ to jail tonight!”

It makes for a sickening hear, considering that Warner has been publicly accused by at least 15 women of sexual assault, sexual battery, emotional and bodily abuse, torture, in addition to different disturbing conduct.

The 52-year-old can also be nonetheless beneath investigation by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Division, because the division confirmed to The Every day Beast that the February case it had opened over alleged home abuse remains to be energetic and ongoing. Warner has denied all allegations of abuse and assault.

Actress Evan Rachel Wooden is one in every of Warner’s most outstanding accusers, boldly naming her ex-boyfriend as her long-mentioned abuser in February. “He began grooming me after I was a youngster and horrifically abused me for years,” Wooden wrote in an Instagram put up. “I’m accomplished residing in concern of retaliation, slander, or blackmail. I’m right here to reveal this harmful man and name out the numerous industries which have enabled him, earlier than he ruins any extra lives. I stand with the numerous victims who will now not be silent.”

Her declaration led his former assistant Ashley Walters, artist Gabriella Accarino, and models Sarah McNeilly and Ashley Lindsay Morgan Smithline, to face in solidarity with Wooden and share their experiences as nicely. Warner is at the moment going through at the least 4 civil fits from a few of these girls.

With an ongoing investigation, a number of accusations, and lawsuits looming over Warner, who was dropped from his document label Loma Vista and hasn’t been seen in public in months, it’s unfathomable why West went out of his option to align himself with him—an artist he’s by no means labored with earlier than—on a tune that appears to aim to make mild of so-called “cancel tradition.”

All through the years, Warner has been dipping his toe into the hip-hop industry, collaborating with DMX on the rapper’s 1998 song “The Omen,” and extra not too long ago for A$AP Ferg’s 2020 tune “Marilyn Manson.” However in mild of the current allegations, for West to work with the rocker within the title of creating an announcement or an try to be provocative, thereby opening up his international fanbase to Warner, sends a horrible message to victims of home violence.

The collaboration apparently nauseated Wooden, who on Saturday night time debuted her cowl of “You Get What You Give.”

“I’ve been saving this but it surely looks as if the suitable time,” she stated earlier than elevating her center finger up when the tune’s lyrics name-drop Warner. “For my fellow survivors who bought slapped within the face this week,” Wooden captioned the put up on Instagram. “I really like you. Do not quit.”

Wooden’s sentiment was echoed by lawyer Jay D. Ellwanger, who’s representing Smithline and Recreation of Thrones actress Esme Bianco, who’s suing Manson for sexual assault, human trafficking, and abuse. He informed The Every day Beast in a remark, “It’s unhappy that Marilyn Manson has chosen to take advantage of these very severe allegations of abuse as an alternative of taking duty for the ache he has triggered.”

Singer Cecilia Della Peruti, greatest identified by her stage title Gothic Tropic, was shut associates with Wooden whereas she was courting Warner and beforehand informed The Every day Beast how she was there on the top of the alleged abuse, applauding Wooden in February for coming ahead.

“Kanye counting on shock worth to spice up album gross sales is admittedly insecure and embarrassing,” she informed The Every day Beast. “I’m not stunned abusers are nonetheless discovering help within the music trade, an trade largely constructed on the work of pedophiles and rapists. Not stunned he’s high-quality offending victims of Marilyn Manson… additionally not stunned he’s high-quality offending queer and homosexual males. However sexual assault and home assault results everybody, and inspiring his following to slap victims within the face makes him an excellent greater loser.”

“This conduct places victims in actual hazard, and perpetuates dangerous reprisals for popping out about abuse by highly effective males, including yet one more hurdle to the pile of shit we already should take care of,” she added.

Manson is at the moment going through at the least three civil fits and had turned himself into police in July over a New Hampshire arrest warrant for allegedly spitting at a female videographer at a live performance in 2019. In February, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Division stated its Particular Victims Bureau had opened an investigation into Manson over alleged home abuse. The case remains to be energetic and ongoing, the division informed The Every day Beast.

“The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division, Particular Victims Bureau is investigating allegation(s) of home violence involving Mr. Brian Warner also referred to as ‘Marilyn Manson,’ who works within the music trade,” the division stated on the time. “The incidents occurred between 2009 and 2011 when Mr. Warner lived within the metropolis of West Hollywood.”

The time interval listed by officers overlaps with when Warner was courting Wooden, who started a relationship with the singer when she was 19 and he was 37 in 2007, earlier than they cut up in Aug. 2010.

Wooden, 33, has been vocal about being a survivor of sexual assault and home violence, championing the Phoenix Act, which was signed into California state regulation in 2019, in addition to giving a shifting testimony earlier than a Home Judiciary Committee in 2018 in favor of the Sexual Assault Survivor’s Invoice of Rights.

Whereas she by no means named Warner throughout her speech, she stated her abuser made “threats towards my life,” and described a sample of “extreme gaslighting and brainwashing, waking as much as the person that claimed to like me raping what he believed to be my unconscious physique, and the worst half, sick rituals of binding me up by my fingers and toes to be mentally and bodily tortured till my abuser felt I had ‘confirmed my love for them.’”

Wooden’s claims mirror these of the opposite girls who spoke out towards Warner, together with Recreation of Thrones actress Esme Bianco, who sued Warner in April, claiming he raped her in Could 2011 and “used medication, pressure, and threats of pressure to coerce sexual acts” from her, at occasions when she was unconscious. “These acts embrace spanking, biting, slicing, and whipping Ms. Bianco’s buttocks, breasts, and genitals for Mr. Warner’s sexual gratification—all with out the consent of Plaintiff,” the lawsuit claimed. Among the many disturbing claims, Bianco describes an incident wherein Warner allegedly electrocuted her and beat her with a whip that he claimed was utilized by Nazis.

Warner responded to Bianco’s go well with in late July, claiming that she was a part of a “coordinated assault” that was “cynically and dishonestly looking for to monetize and exploit the Me Too motion.”

In May, Warner was sued by another ex-girlfriend under the name of “Jane Doe” whom he began dating in 2011. She additionally claimed that Warner raped her and threatened to kill her. Her lawsuit alleged that Warner one time “honored” her by allegedly taking part in her a do-it-yourself video that confirmed an obvious teenage fan being “berated,” stripped of her shirt, compelled to drink urine, threatened with a gun, and probably pistol-whipped.

Love Bailey, a visible filmmaker, previously told The Daily Beast how she thought she was going to die when Warner suddenly pulled a gun on her at his home whereas she was there to model a photoshoot in 2011. Proper as Warner went to drag the set off, he set free amusing and stated, “I don’t like f—-ts,” recalled Love Bailey, who’s trans. “There’s a scar on my life from that instantaneous,” she stated. “He took part of my innocence. He must be set for instance that males within the trade can not get away with this and other people shouldn’t glorify folks like this.”