On January 30, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a massive, and likely final, batch of files related to the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, totaling over 3 million pages, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images. This release was mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump in November 2025, requiring the DOJ to produce its files related to the late sex offender and Ghislaine Maxwell. Together with the Epstein files, which strictly are files obtained from Jeffrey Epstein himself, and in which Marilyn Manson is never mentioned as having any sort of association with Epstein, the DOJ included a number of separate documents that consist of "anonymous tips." It is a document in one of these anonymous tips that the name Marilyn Manson can be found, in document EFTA00154698. In the context of document EFTA00154698, an "anonymous tip" refers to information submitted by a member of the p...
On January 30, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a massive, and likely final, batch of files related to the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, totaling over 3 million pages, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images.
This release was mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump in November 2025, requiring the DOJ to produce its files related to the late sex offender and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Together with the Epstein files, which strictly are files obtained from Jeffrey Epstein himself, and in which Marilyn Manson is never mentioned as having any sort of association with Epstein, the DOJ included a number of separate documents that consist of "anonymous tips." It is a document in one of these anonymous tips that the name Marilyn Manson can be found, in document EFTA00154698.
In the context of document EFTA00154698, an "anonymous tip" refers to information submitted by a member of the public through the FBI’s tip line rather than being derived from a formal Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation or official witness interview.
The designation of this document as an anonymous tip has several implications:
Unverified Allegations: Tips are considered unsubstantiated until investigators can corroborate them. Many tips in the Epstein release have been noted by the DOJ to be "fake or falsely submitted," or based on hearsay and secondhand information.
Investigative Leads: Tips are used as "intel reports" to put potential suspects or activities on law enforcement's radar. If the information is deemed credible, it can lead to further action, such as search warrants or interviews, though a tip alone is rarely sufficient for legal charges.
Transparency vs. Reliability: Because the Epstein Files Transparency Act mandated the release of all responsive materials, the DOJ included thousands of tip line entries that they had not necessarily vetted or proved to be true.
Context for Manson: In the specific case of the document mentioning Marilyn Manson, the tip reportedly involves a claim of a woman who says Marilyn Manson was invited to her house when she was a child by her father where he may or may not have done something to her, but does not necessarily accuse him of direct criminal activity with Epstein.
Critics have argued that including these unverified tips in the public dump can mislead the public or damage reputations by mixing credible evidence with random, unproven submissions from the public.
This release was mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump in November 2025, requiring the DOJ to produce its files related to the late sex offender and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Together with the Epstein files, which strictly are files obtained from Jeffrey Epstein himself, and in which Marilyn Manson is never mentioned as having any sort of association with Epstein, the DOJ included a number of separate documents that consist of "anonymous tips." It is a document in one of these anonymous tips that the name Marilyn Manson can be found, in document EFTA00154698.
In the context of document EFTA00154698, an "anonymous tip" refers to information submitted by a member of the public through the FBI’s tip line rather than being derived from a formal Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation or official witness interview.
The designation of this document as an anonymous tip has several implications:
Unverified Allegations: Tips are considered unsubstantiated until investigators can corroborate them. Many tips in the Epstein release have been noted by the DOJ to be "fake or falsely submitted," or based on hearsay and secondhand information.
Investigative Leads: Tips are used as "intel reports" to put potential suspects or activities on law enforcement's radar. If the information is deemed credible, it can lead to further action, such as search warrants or interviews, though a tip alone is rarely sufficient for legal charges.
Transparency vs. Reliability: Because the Epstein Files Transparency Act mandated the release of all responsive materials, the DOJ included thousands of tip line entries that they had not necessarily vetted or proved to be true.
Context for Manson: In the specific case of the document mentioning Marilyn Manson, the tip reportedly involves a claim of a woman who says Marilyn Manson was invited to her house when she was a child by her father where he may or may not have done something to her, but does not necessarily accuse him of direct criminal activity with Epstein.
Critics have argued that including these unverified tips in the public dump can mislead the public or damage reputations by mixing credible evidence with random, unproven submissions from the public.
What Does Document EFTA00154698 Say?
On January 15, 2025, an attorney, presumably the prosecutor in the Ghislaine Maxwell case, received an anonymous email with the following in the subject line: "Epstien, Marshall mathers, and Marilyn manson". It is from a female who said she worked at West's Mogadore Country Club (closed since 2012) near Akron, Ohio from 2002 to 2004 as a cleaner and cook, and she was under 18 at the time.
Her first claim, and the reason it is associated with Epstein, is that Epstein and Maxwell came to the bar of the country club she worked at, and says he had a bed moved into the banquet space.
Another claim is that Marshall Mathers (Eminem) came into the bar with another man, and the man with her boss and the owner of the country club at the time, Eric West, had the tipper drugged, shaved her pubic hair, raped, and some black guy threatened her life with a knife to her throat while she was naked.
Regarding Marilyn Manson, she claims many possible memories with him, but one that she says she remembers clearly took place at her aunt's house, which Manson visited at least twice, once when she was 10 or 11 and another time at 13. The first time, she says, her dad allowed Manson to trace her breasts over her white t-shirt. The second time Manson came with a bunch of men and said something that upset her father who allegedly had to escort his daughter outside the house and told her she would never see "Brian," what they called Manson, again.
She also claims Diddy came to her trailer park home near Akron in 2010 or 2011 while she was pregnant and 300lbs (she says she was always obese and unattractive) and was outside videotaping her. She describes her unattractive appearance because it seemed to baffle her that Diddy was stalking her.
Though she is not specific, she says she wears eyeglasses "that are often taken from me," but seems to have no idea who takes them from her.
She says that she tried to talk to her dad before he died in 2020 about these things, but he refused to say anything.
A mention is also made of her ex-boyfriend who would have his drug dealer rape her.
You can read the entire email here.
What Conclusions Can We Draw From This Document?
First of all, I tend towards believing what the anonymous woman in the email says is not a lie. However, she sounds like she is going through a real struggle with her memories, and she often admits this in her email. For example:
1. When talking about the bed in the banquet hall related to Epstein, she says: "My memories of seeing it there are hazy like I was drugged or under hypnosis."
2. After describing her Eminem story, she says: "Most of my memories feel unreal. I'm hoping by telling someone I can find a sense of realness and healing. They've started playing over and over in my head."
3. In regards to Manson, she says: "All of the memories I have of Marilyn manson feel like a dream or hypnosis except the ones at my aunts house... After that my memories all feel like I was either drugged around him or under some kind of hypnosis."
4. Regarding her Diddy memories, she says: "I also have memories of being around P-diddy. But I can't place how or why he would have been in my home... I remember someone who I think is diddy. Taking a video with a phone."
5. And in her concluding remarks, she says: "My memories are still becoming increasingly over whelming. They keep me awake at night."
With so many memory issues and claims of hypnosis and drugging by famous people the media associates with abusive behavior, in a remote Ohio location where these famous people are never reported to be in, all focused on a teenage unattractive obese girl, it becomes very clear that there is in fact no basis to the reality of these claims, and anyone who entertains that there is any credibility to her claims is either very dishonest, naive, or disingenuous.
There are many questions the anonymous tipper leaves unanswered. For example, how was she a cook in an Ohio country club when she was under 18? How did she know of Epstein and Maxwell in the early 2000's and recognize them when she was under 18? What did she do after she was violently raped and threatened at the country club she worked in? How did her family know Manson so well that he would often visit her house at a time when he was a rising international rock star living in Los Angeles and was not known for spending any time in Ohio after he moved from there in 1989?
The most important question I would like answered is how long has she had these foggy memories? They sound like they were in the process of forming very recently from when she wrote her email in 2025, prompting her to write about the affliction they were causing her and even increasing. Though she does mention talking about something in 2020, but what exactly this was is unclear.
It should be noted also that from 2002 to 2004, Eminem never played a show near Akron, just one in Cleveland. Marilyn Manson performed once at the Akron Rhoades Arena as part of his 1995 tour, which would place the tipper under the age she reports, and on later tours played Columbus and Cleveland, which are over an hour away from Akron. Epstein ran a property in Columbus, which is some distance from Akron, but this was among his many properties around the world; he is not associated with anything near Akron. Though Diddy did tour in 2011, he had no stops in Ohio. If any of them were involved in any sort of abuse towards the anonymous tipper, they would have had to travel some distance to do so. And as of 2025, Ohio has 148 country clubs, which is roughly about the same in 2002, so why they would all choose that specific country club and the Akron area is a complete mystery.
My conclusion to this anonymous tip is what should be very clear and obvious to everyone who reads it: the tipper, if not outright lying, has severe mental health issues, and is in need of therapy to deal with her affliction. Nothing of what she says makes any rational sense. To support her testimony is to help discredit the testimony of real survivors.
It's very clear these memories developed based on what she was hearing and reading in the news about these famous people, and in her fragile mental state developed her own memories of these people doing things to her what they have become known in the media for in recent years.
Marilyn Manson Accusers Further Discrediting Themselves By Endorsing This Testimony
False accusers are the quickest to believe lies like the above because they are inclined towards perpetuating their own alleged victimhood through slander and bearing false witness, which is why they are such bad false accusers and liars and easily discredited. This is why it's no surprise that former Manson accusers will easily buy into the conspiracy theories and witch hunts being peddled by the release of the Epstein files, which weakens the position of focusing on the real and true issues of the cases and incidents involved. Leave it to people like Dan Cleary, Louise Keay Bell and Bianca Allaine Kyne to be quick to endorse without question the anonymous email tip above released with the Epstein files, being among the least credible of all the Manson accusers. This should have been an easy opportunity for them to gain a small fraction of credibility by at least showing some skepticism and respect for facts, but even when given a golden opportunity, they failed in the most pathetic way.
On January 15, 2025, an attorney, presumably the prosecutor in the Ghislaine Maxwell case, received an anonymous email with the following in the subject line: "Epstien, Marshall mathers, and Marilyn manson". It is from a female who said she worked at West's Mogadore Country Club (closed since 2012) near Akron, Ohio from 2002 to 2004 as a cleaner and cook, and she was under 18 at the time.
Her first claim, and the reason it is associated with Epstein, is that Epstein and Maxwell came to the bar of the country club she worked at, and says he had a bed moved into the banquet space.
Another claim is that Marshall Mathers (Eminem) came into the bar with another man, and the man with her boss and the owner of the country club at the time, Eric West, had the tipper drugged, shaved her pubic hair, raped, and some black guy threatened her life with a knife to her throat while she was naked.
Regarding Marilyn Manson, she claims many possible memories with him, but one that she says she remembers clearly took place at her aunt's house, which Manson visited at least twice, once when she was 10 or 11 and another time at 13. The first time, she says, her dad allowed Manson to trace her breasts over her white t-shirt. The second time Manson came with a bunch of men and said something that upset her father who allegedly had to escort his daughter outside the house and told her she would never see "Brian," what they called Manson, again.
She also claims Diddy came to her trailer park home near Akron in 2010 or 2011 while she was pregnant and 300lbs (she says she was always obese and unattractive) and was outside videotaping her. She describes her unattractive appearance because it seemed to baffle her that Diddy was stalking her.
Though she is not specific, she says she wears eyeglasses "that are often taken from me," but seems to have no idea who takes them from her.
She says that she tried to talk to her dad before he died in 2020 about these things, but he refused to say anything.
A mention is also made of her ex-boyfriend who would have his drug dealer rape her.
You can read the entire email here.
What Conclusions Can We Draw From This Document?
First of all, I tend towards believing what the anonymous woman in the email says is not a lie. However, she sounds like she is going through a real struggle with her memories, and she often admits this in her email. For example:
1. When talking about the bed in the banquet hall related to Epstein, she says: "My memories of seeing it there are hazy like I was drugged or under hypnosis."
2. After describing her Eminem story, she says: "Most of my memories feel unreal. I'm hoping by telling someone I can find a sense of realness and healing. They've started playing over and over in my head."
3. In regards to Manson, she says: "All of the memories I have of Marilyn manson feel like a dream or hypnosis except the ones at my aunts house... After that my memories all feel like I was either drugged around him or under some kind of hypnosis."
4. Regarding her Diddy memories, she says: "I also have memories of being around P-diddy. But I can't place how or why he would have been in my home... I remember someone who I think is diddy. Taking a video with a phone."
5. And in her concluding remarks, she says: "My memories are still becoming increasingly over whelming. They keep me awake at night."
With so many memory issues and claims of hypnosis and drugging by famous people the media associates with abusive behavior, in a remote Ohio location where these famous people are never reported to be in, all focused on a teenage unattractive obese girl, it becomes very clear that there is in fact no basis to the reality of these claims, and anyone who entertains that there is any credibility to her claims is either very dishonest, naive, or disingenuous.
There are many questions the anonymous tipper leaves unanswered. For example, how was she a cook in an Ohio country club when she was under 18? How did she know of Epstein and Maxwell in the early 2000's and recognize them when she was under 18? What did she do after she was violently raped and threatened at the country club she worked in? How did her family know Manson so well that he would often visit her house at a time when he was a rising international rock star living in Los Angeles and was not known for spending any time in Ohio after he moved from there in 1989?
The most important question I would like answered is how long has she had these foggy memories? They sound like they were in the process of forming very recently from when she wrote her email in 2025, prompting her to write about the affliction they were causing her and even increasing. Though she does mention talking about something in 2020, but what exactly this was is unclear.
It should be noted also that from 2002 to 2004, Eminem never played a show near Akron, just one in Cleveland. Marilyn Manson performed once at the Akron Rhoades Arena as part of his 1995 tour, which would place the tipper under the age she reports, and on later tours played Columbus and Cleveland, which are over an hour away from Akron. Epstein ran a property in Columbus, which is some distance from Akron, but this was among his many properties around the world; he is not associated with anything near Akron. Though Diddy did tour in 2011, he had no stops in Ohio. If any of them were involved in any sort of abuse towards the anonymous tipper, they would have had to travel some distance to do so. And as of 2025, Ohio has 148 country clubs, which is roughly about the same in 2002, so why they would all choose that specific country club and the Akron area is a complete mystery.
My conclusion to this anonymous tip is what should be very clear and obvious to everyone who reads it: the tipper, if not outright lying, has severe mental health issues, and is in need of therapy to deal with her affliction. Nothing of what she says makes any rational sense. To support her testimony is to help discredit the testimony of real survivors.
It's very clear these memories developed based on what she was hearing and reading in the news about these famous people, and in her fragile mental state developed her own memories of these people doing things to her what they have become known in the media for in recent years.
Marilyn Manson Accusers Further Discrediting Themselves By Endorsing This Testimony
False accusers are the quickest to believe lies like the above because they are inclined towards perpetuating their own alleged victimhood through slander and bearing false witness, which is why they are such bad false accusers and liars and easily discredited. This is why it's no surprise that former Manson accusers will easily buy into the conspiracy theories and witch hunts being peddled by the release of the Epstein files, which weakens the position of focusing on the real and true issues of the cases and incidents involved. Leave it to people like Dan Cleary, Louise Keay Bell and Bianca Allaine Kyne to be quick to endorse without question the anonymous email tip above released with the Epstein files, being among the least credible of all the Manson accusers. This should have been an easy opportunity for them to gain a small fraction of credibility by at least showing some skepticism and respect for facts, but even when given a golden opportunity, they failed in the most pathetic way.
Evan Rachel Wood Unsurprisingly Takes Things To Another Level
Evan Rachel Wood has long been known for fully embracing conspiracy theories and participating in witch hunts, while trying to give the appearance of being a moderate guru who takes middle ground positions. But like the three accusers mentioned above, she has long been a very naive radical who is quick to accuse and see her own victimhood in convenient places. Anyone following Evan on Instagram, even in recent days, knows how paranoid she can get about things (you get the feeling that she thinks everyone and everything is out to get her), and with the release of the Epstein files it has given her an opportunity to promote her twisted victimhood narrative by making the following posts, which includes calling out Marilyn Manson for being in the Epstein files.
Evan Rachel Wood has long been known for fully embracing conspiracy theories and participating in witch hunts, while trying to give the appearance of being a moderate guru who takes middle ground positions. But like the three accusers mentioned above, she has long been a very naive radical who is quick to accuse and see her own victimhood in convenient places. Anyone following Evan on Instagram, even in recent days, knows how paranoid she can get about things (you get the feeling that she thinks everyone and everything is out to get her), and with the release of the Epstein files it has given her an opportunity to promote her twisted victimhood narrative by making the following posts, which includes calling out Marilyn Manson for being in the Epstein files.
The A.I. posts about Manson she quotes from comes from a website called SHOCKYA, which describes itself as "reporting since 2010 on systemic corruption inside the entertainment business." But the article is clearly written with the intention of presenting false allegations as facts. Here is one very clear example from the same article about Johnny Depp that everyone should know is completely false:
"In 2018, Johnny Depp starred in the movie about the murders of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G., called ‘City of Lies,’ in which he worked closely with the Notorious B.I.G. estate, which was then still controlled by Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and his companies. Soon after, Johnny Depp was also working on a cover album of the Notorious B.I.G. album ‘Ready to Die,’ led by Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, with Marilyn Manson, Jay-Z, and several others joining. The album was killed in 2021 when a cease and decist letter was sent to one of the producers, just as the project started to fall apart due to infighting."
It is from this same article that Evan gets her information from. So let's focus on what it says about Marilyn Manson and the Epstein files:
"Strangely, some of Manson’s files have been scrubbed from the DOJ website. Luckily, internet sleuths were able to save the files before they disappeared. In one of the files, Manson is mentioned in a report by an Assistant US Attorney, along with Marshall Mathers AKA Eminem, and Diddy."
First of all, we made it clear that technically Manson is not mentioned in the Epstein files, but that a very recent anonymous tip was included with the files simply because it mentions the name Epstein and it was sent to a prosecutor for Maxwell. And we fully covered how absolutely absurd it is to give any credibility to this anonymous tip.
Secondly, it talks about other Manson files being scrubbed from the DOJ website, but "internet sleuths" saved the file before it disappeared. This is an exaggerated claim, even false. There is no Manson file. The DOJ took down a file of photos that belonged to Epstein which showed underage girls naked or in sexual positions. The file contained 100 photos, mostly pornography, censored, some of which showed what perhaps could be underage girls, though it is censored enough to not really know, except perhaps in one or two cases. Photo 90 of the 100 was a photo of Marilyn Manson and Rose McGowan at the VMA's where Rose wore her revealing dress, and it was clearly with this stash of pornography because of the revealing outfit Rose was wearing and not because of Manson. The file (EFTA01645970) was saved in the Wayback Machine and can be seen here, but the photo in question is below if you don't want to scroll through a bunch of porn. The so-called "internet sleuths" was the linked Reddit post which shows the photo of Manson and McGowan.
"In 2018, Johnny Depp starred in the movie about the murders of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G., called ‘City of Lies,’ in which he worked closely with the Notorious B.I.G. estate, which was then still controlled by Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and his companies. Soon after, Johnny Depp was also working on a cover album of the Notorious B.I.G. album ‘Ready to Die,’ led by Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, with Marilyn Manson, Jay-Z, and several others joining. The album was killed in 2021 when a cease and decist letter was sent to one of the producers, just as the project started to fall apart due to infighting."
It is from this same article that Evan gets her information from. So let's focus on what it says about Marilyn Manson and the Epstein files:
"Strangely, some of Manson’s files have been scrubbed from the DOJ website. Luckily, internet sleuths were able to save the files before they disappeared. In one of the files, Manson is mentioned in a report by an Assistant US Attorney, along with Marshall Mathers AKA Eminem, and Diddy."
First of all, we made it clear that technically Manson is not mentioned in the Epstein files, but that a very recent anonymous tip was included with the files simply because it mentions the name Epstein and it was sent to a prosecutor for Maxwell. And we fully covered how absolutely absurd it is to give any credibility to this anonymous tip.
Secondly, it talks about other Manson files being scrubbed from the DOJ website, but "internet sleuths" saved the file before it disappeared. This is an exaggerated claim, even false. There is no Manson file. The DOJ took down a file of photos that belonged to Epstein which showed underage girls naked or in sexual positions. The file contained 100 photos, mostly pornography, censored, some of which showed what perhaps could be underage girls, though it is censored enough to not really know, except perhaps in one or two cases. Photo 90 of the 100 was a photo of Marilyn Manson and Rose McGowan at the VMA's where Rose wore her revealing dress, and it was clearly with this stash of pornography because of the revealing outfit Rose was wearing and not because of Manson. The file (EFTA01645970) was saved in the Wayback Machine and can be seen here, but the photo in question is below if you don't want to scroll through a bunch of porn. The so-called "internet sleuths" was the linked Reddit post which shows the photo of Manson and McGowan.
What this article is doing is purposefully making Manson look like he was more a part of these Epstein files than he actually was. In fact, it is more accurate to say Manson is not in the Epstein files at all, unless you count the photo of him standing next to Rose, the latter being clearly the focus in this instance.
But you know who is actually mentioned in the Epstein files? Yes, Evan Rachel Wood is named in several places in the Epstein files. If you look up her name, you will see two emails where Epstein is invited to two movie premiers, films which Evan was in, and she is named. Epstein did attend one of the premiers, which means she may have met Epstein. Does this mean Evan is guilty of anything nefarious? Of course not. It only means she is in the Epstein files and Manson is not, and neither of them had anything to do with Epstein, so stop looking for a witch hunt or anything nefarious that does not exist in reality.
Concluding Remarks
Right before Evan posted about Manson being in the Epstein files, she made the following statement to twist the narrative in her favor:
But you know who is actually mentioned in the Epstein files? Yes, Evan Rachel Wood is named in several places in the Epstein files. If you look up her name, you will see two emails where Epstein is invited to two movie premiers, films which Evan was in, and she is named. Epstein did attend one of the premiers, which means she may have met Epstein. Does this mean Evan is guilty of anything nefarious? Of course not. It only means she is in the Epstein files and Manson is not, and neither of them had anything to do with Epstein, so stop looking for a witch hunt or anything nefarious that does not exist in reality.
Concluding Remarks
Right before Evan posted about Manson being in the Epstein files, she made the following statement to twist the narrative in her favor:
This is the type of evidence that Evan Rachel Wood brings to the table. She believes her distorted conspiracies and fantasies are "mountains of evidence," enough to destroy lives just because they are named along with Epstein, ignoring the fact that she is as much named in the files as others or even more than those she wants arrested. Just because you say you have "mountains of evidence" doesn't mean its true until you present it all, and she has never presented her mountains of evidence, even though she has had many opportunities, including numerous interviews and a few documentaries. Such manipulation is common with Evan, making baseless claims to turn the narrative in her favor. And the "burden of proof" is indeed high, because the stakes are high. She posts about women being burned alive as witches in the 17th century because there was a low burden of proof against them, but what if the burden of proof was so high that it was commensurate with them losing their lives? I think she would agree this would have given them an opportunity to receive greater justice. Instead with her statement she is basically arguing in favor of the witch hunt mentality which requires one to believe in a low burden of proof, as the MeToo movement does and the accusations against Marilyn Manson are. It is always better, if need be, to let someone guilty go free due to lack of evidence than for an innocent man to be convicted and destroyed because the burden of proof against slanders and lies was too low.