Dogmatic

Marilyn Manson has apparently filed a motion with Los Angeles Superior Court judge Michael L. Stern requesting that all of his financial information to be kept secret in the on going legal battle with former keyboardist, Stephen “Madonna Wayne Gacy” Bier, who filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against Manson in August 2007.

Bier, who claims Manson spent his royalties on African masks made of human skin, a full skeleton of a 4-year-old Chinese girl that Manson is said to have turned into a chandelier and another skeleton of a man in a wheelchair, is seeking $20 million dollars in damages. Manson countersued in December claiming that Bier did not fulfil his obligations to the band.

To move to keep Manson’s financial information a secret is similar to one granted to Lindsay Lohan earlier this year in her lawsuit over a 2005 traffic accident. Manson’s attorneys specifically requested the Lohan treatment from Stern, who served as judge in that case, as well.

“He’s trying to hide his skeletons from you all,” Bier’s attorney, Keith A. Fink, said.

According to Bier, Manson allegedly also purchased swastika wall tiles and matching rugs, a mounted grizzly bear and two mounted baboons as well as alleging that Manson arranged for his girlfriend, Evan Rachel Wood, to star in the ‘Heart Shaped Glasses’ video for the “highest salary ever paid to any actress in any music video in history.”

Bier said that when he requested his share of the band’s royalties, Manson “devised a campaign to drive him out of the band and rob him of his entitlement.”

Manson has denied the charges.

“The fact that he’s claiming that I’ve treated him unfairly, financially, is really ridiculous,” Manson told MTV. “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.

“It just seems like another ex-bandmember suing me and trying to assassinate my personality as a means to financial gain, and it just seems old. It’s just not fair. If I spent my money on anything, it was my family, and paying his salary for a year when we weren’t even touring.”