A new article in the L.A. Times (July 9, 2025) explores the accomplishments of the new Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman over the first six months of taking office. According to prosecutors and law enforcement officials, the new district attorney has delivered “a return to normalcy” after the contentious term of progressive luminary George Gascón. One of his accomplishments over his predecessor explored in the article has been to close the Marilyn Manson investigation and not bring any charges against him. The L.A. Times however does not present it as an accomplishment, but as a political pitfall along with another high profile case he is involved in, the Menendez Brothers. According to the L.A. Times: "In January, Hochman announced he would not bring rape charges against rock star Marilyn Manson — roughly four months after he held a campaign event alongside some of Manson’s accusers to attack Gascón’s handling of the case. 'You don’t parade people out. … I found t...
- Los Angeles District Attorney Gives Unexpected Update On the Marilyn Manson Case On September 12th I received a direct video response to a question I submitted on Evan Rachel Wood's birthday (September 7th - per her request through her Instagram stories) directly to the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office in their #AskTheDA series on Instagram. I figured since they weren't answering questions submitted to their website, maybe I can humor Evan and get a direct response from District Attorney George Gascón himself. And it worked! See the video below for his response: Apparently it is a rare thing for the LA District Attorney to make such an announcement regarding such a case, which is why this story was reported everywhere: FOX LA , LA Times , Rolling Stone , Huffington Post , The Daily Beast , Metal Injection , Loudwire , among many others. It seemed as if every news outlet jumped at the chance to report how rare this was, adding to the fact that it was announced the...