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Marilyn Manson Manages to Get Weirder
Thursday August 2, 2007

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Marilyn Manson arrives at The Cinema Society's New York Screening of "Interview". July 11, 2007.
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Marilyn Manson’s keyboard player has filed a lawsuit claiming that the rocker squandered their band's earnings on "sick and disturbing purchases of Nazi memorabilia and taxidermy (including the skeleton of a young Chinese girl)."

Keyboard man Stephen "Pogo" Bier also accuses Manson of splurging on a multimillion-dollar home, an engagement ring for Dita Von Teese as well as the couple’s lavish wedding in Ireland (Manson and Von Teese filed for divorce earlier this year).

According to Page Six, Bier accuses the 38-year-old shock rocker and his "musketeers" (his business manager, lawyer and the band's manager) of assisting Manson "in filching millions of dollars the band made over the years."

Meanwhile, Von Teese, 34, is still recovering from the couple’s very public split in January after a year of marriage. Shortly after the burlesque star filed for divorce in January, Manson began dating 19-year-old actress Evan Rachel Wood. Von Teese tells RadarOnline that she was disappointed her ex chose to speak about the end of their marriage while doing press for his new album.

“It was hard,” she says. “I just never expected it. It's unfortunate to have my divorce exploited for record sales.”

In an interview with France's Le Parisien newspaper, Manson said of Von Teese, “I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity.”

Radar asked Von Teese if she thought Manson’s frank remarks were blown out of proportion by the press. “I don't think it was the press,” she says. “It was a matter of, ‘Hey, maybe you shouldn't drink absinthe and do cocaine and do interviews all at the same time.’ … It was drinking and interviewing.”

However, she admits that she and her ex aren’t completely estranged. “We're in touch,” says Von Teese. “And we can kind of laugh at it all. Sort of.”

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