Ebene News – UA – Police watch Marilyn Manson in domestic violence investigation

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Detectives are investigating allegations of domestic violence against rocker Marilyn Manson in incidents that took place around ten years ago in West Hollywood, authorities said Friday

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Special Victims Office opened the investigation after a woman approached authorities to report the allegations, Sheriff Lt. John Adams said The incidents allegedly occurred between 2009 and 2011, when Manson lived in the city of West Hollywood

“Our staff are only at the very beginning of an investigation into this matter,” Adams said He would not describe the allegations or say when the woman came forward

News of the investigation came less than three weeks after actor Evan Rachel Wood publicly accused Manson, her ex-fiance, of sexual and other physical abuse, alleging that she had been “manipulated to to submit ”during their relationship

Adams declined to identify the woman who contacted the sheriff’s department, as is typically the case in domestic violence cases

Manson, 52, real name Brian Warner, has denied Wood’s claims as “horrible distortions of reality”

Wood, 33, who stars on HBO’s “Westworld”, had previously opened up about abuse in a relationship, but did not name the person until she detailed the allegations on Instagram on February 1

“My abuser’s name is Brian Warner, also known to the world as Marilyn Manson,” said Wood “He started grooming me when I was a teenager and abused me horribly for years “

Wood and Manson’s relationship first became public in 2007 when he was 38 and 19.They briefly engaged in 2010 before going their separate ways

Manson responded to Wood’s allegations with his own Instagram post on the same day as his post

“My intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual with like-minded partners,” her post reads “No matter how – and why – others now choose to distort the past, it’s the truth”

In 2018, Los Angeles County prosecutors refused to press charges against Manson over assault, beatings and sexual assault allegations dating back to 2011, saying they were limited by statutes of limitations and lack of corroboration The accuser in this case has only been identified as a social acquaintance of Manson

He denied the allegations through his lawyer at the time The lawyer could not be reached for comment on Friday

The Associated Press does not normally name people who claim to be victims of sexual assault, but named Wood because of his decision to speak publicly

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