On December 16th 2025, it was announced that the case of Ashley Walters (ex-assistant) brought against her former employer Marilyn Manson (Brian Warner) through her second amended complaint on March 11th 2022, has been dismissed without prejudice. This is because on September 19th 2025, Marilyn Manson and Marilyn Manson Records, Inc. filed a Motion for Summary Judgment, and this Motion was granted on December 16th. Hence the jury trial which was scheduled for the 26th of January will no longer take place. According to court documents, the Motion for Summary Judgment was granted for three reasons: 1. “There is no triable issue of material fact.” The court is saying: Even if we look at the evidence most favorably to the plaintiff, there is nothing a jury needs to decide because the key facts are either undisputed or legally irrelevant. Meaning: The dispute is purely legal, not factual — and the law favors the defendants. 2. “Plaintiff’s claims are time barred.” The court is saying:...
Marilyn Manson in Berlin: In a Dark World of Show, Hate and Pain After an abuse scandal, Marilyn Manson had withdrawn from the public eye. Now he is back in Berlin for the first time in seven years. He has brought a clear message with him to the sold-out Columbiahalle. By Dennis Sand February 17, 2025 Last week, the self-proclaimed Antichrist landed in a world that corresponds to him, or at least his philosophy, in a frightening way. The day on which Marilyn Manson performs on German soil for the first time in seven long years is the day on which the most powerful of the powerful renounce the old world order and two people lose their lives in a terrorist attack, all just a few kilometers away from the Zenith in Munich, where Manson celebrated his comeback on Thursday for, well, you could say, his comeback. Marilyn Manson is on tour again and he travels a world that continues to be in rapid decay with its moral, cultural and civil abysses. A decay that has always been reflec...