Ex-bandmate sues Marylin Manson by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu

Former keyboardist of Marilyn Manson claimed that the shock rocker kept millions of dollars meant to be shared and bought items including a handbag owned by Hitler's girlfriend and a skeleton in a wheelchair. Manson,Stephen Bier, whose stage name was Madonna Wayne Gacy and other band members signed a partnership agreement in 1993 to share profits. Manson and others deceived Bier into thinking the band wasn't making much money,claims the suit filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.Bier says he began to think differently several years ago when Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, went on a spending binge. He claims Manson owes him at least $20 million in shared profits. Manson used band money to buy a $2 million home, collect Nazi paraphernalia and to give his fiancee at the time a handbag once owned by Eva Braun, claims the suit, in the period between 2004 to 2006. He also bought "African masks made of human skin, the full skeleton of a 4-year-old Chinese girl, and the full skeleton of a 17th-century male in a wheelchair," the suit claims. All in all, Manson spent band money on personal drug treatment, a low-budget movie production, a Los Angeles gallery to display his artwork and about $450,000 for an engagement ring and his wedding to burlesque performer Dita Von Teese. It is contented by Bier that Manson and the band's lawyer and business managers refused to pay his medical bills for work-related problems and cut off his salary payments and band credit card access.In an interview Thursday with MTV News, Manson denied the allegations and said he would fight them. He said that "The fact that he's claiming that I've treated him unfairly, financially, is really ridiculous.And I would never spend my money on a Chinese girl skeleton. That would be crossing the line. It's a Chinese boy, for the record."

by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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