Marilyn Manson has been sentenced to twenty hours of group service after pleading “no contest” to videographer Susan Fountain’s declare that he spat on and blew his nostril on her when she was working at considered one of his concert events in 2019.
Susan’s firm, Metronome Media, have been contacted to work Marilyn’s gig in New Hampshire on Aug. 19, 2019, and she said that she was within the venue’s stage pit space when the star approached her.
In line with a police investigator that reviewed footage of Marilyn’s live performance, Marilyn put his face near Susan’s digicam and spit “a big lougee” at her, which coated each her palms along with his saliva.
Marilyn, actual title Brian Warner, is then mentioned to have returned for a second time, coated one nostril, and blown in Susan’s course — launching a “vital quantity of mucus” onto her.
The report additionally says that the footage reveals Marilyn “level and snigger” at Susan “as she will get down and walks away.” Susan mentioned that she went to the restroom after the incident to scrub her arms and palms that have been coated with Marilyn’s bodily fluids.
New Hampshire police put out an arrest warrant for Marilyn in 2019, and he surrendered himself to Los Angeles police in July 2021.
The star was charged with two misdemeanor counts of straightforward assault and he initially pleaded not responsible, along with his lawyer writing on the time that videographers at his present are sometimes uncovered to “incidental contact” with bodily fluids.
If the case had gone to trial, Marilyn might have been sentenced to time in jail and been fined $2,000.
The star modified his plea to no contest, which implies that though he’s not contesting the cost he’s additionally not admitting guilt.
Marilyn was required to attend courtroom in particular person on Monday, and spoke to the choose twice — as soon as to substantiate his title, and a second time to say that he understood the sentence.
Along with the group service, which the choose has permitted Marilyn to hold out in his dwelling state of California, Marilyn has to pay $1,400 in fines for the misdemeanor, and can be obliged to inform native police of any future New Hampshire concert events for the subsequent two years.
In a sufferer assertion, Susan mentioned that she was left “humiliated” by the expertise, and known as Marilyn’s actions “probably the most disgusting factor a human being has ever achieved.”
Per WMUR9, the assertion learn: “For me, I am knowledgeable particular person and I have been on this business for 30 years. I’ve labored for lots of corporations, and in all of the years I’ve labored with folks, I’ve by no means been humiliated or handled like I used to be by this defendant.”
“For him to spit on me and blow his nostril on me was probably the most disgusting factor a human being has ever achieved,” it goes on. “I perceive this was not an enormous legal cost to start with, however I hoped that the defendant would obtain a sentence that may make him suppose twice earlier than doing one thing like this once more.”
That is removed from Marilyn’s solely authorized woe in recent times, with the star additionally being sued by numerous girls for allegations of sexual, bodily, and emotional abuse. Most of those circumstances have both been settled or dismissed.
