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Marilyn Manson V Madonna Wayne Gacy

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Marilyn Manson V Madonna Wayne Gacy

The Associated Press reports that dueling lawsuits between Marilyn Manson and an ex-bandmate could be headed back to the deposition table.

Lawyers for former Manson keyboardist Stephen Bier maintain the singer would not answer inquires about his alleged use of illegal drugs and whether he made racist comments in a deposition last month.

But attorneys for Manson contend that during his deposition, Bier refused to answer questions about his own alleged drug use and whether he was ever too impaired to perform on stage.

Attorneys for both men told their clients not to respond to the questions to protect their privacy.

Bier — known by his stage name Madonna Wayne Gacy — sued Manson in August for more than $20 million, claiming the singer stiffed him on salary and medical support. Bier claimed Manson used the money instead to buy himself a mansion, pay for drug treatment, produce a movie, buy Nazi memorabilia and hold a fancy wedding.

Manson struck back and claimed Bier did not carry out obligations to take part in master recordings, concerts and the selling of band merchandise.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael L. Stern is scheduled to hold hearings June 19 and July 1 on the separate motions to compel the additional deposition answers.

Manson Files Motion To Keep Finances Secret

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Manson Files Motion To Keep Finances Secret

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.”

A Brush With Evil

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Nikki Stone is selling this painting by serial killer John Wayne Gacy that he says brought him nothing but bad luck

A Malden man’s guilty pleasure of investing in murderabilia has come back to haunt him thanks to a “cursed” clown painting by serial killer John Wayne Gacy, which the collector claims turned his life into a three-ring circus.

“I just want to get rid of it,” said musician Nikki Stone about the late Gacy’s signed self-portrait of his terrifying alter ego, ‘Pogo the Clown’.

Since he plunked down $3,000 in 2001 to buy the framed oil Stone said his beloved dog has died and his mother found out she had cancer.

When a friend offered to store the painting at his house, the friend’s neighbor was killed in a car crash. A second friend who kept the painting for Stone attempted suicide, Stone said.

“I’ve never even hung it,” said Stone, who hopes a less superstitious buyer will at least cover the $3,000 he blew - even if only to burn the true-crime artifact.

The creepy conversation piece is now in the care of Stone’s pal Shawn McCarron, a consignment art dealer and owner of Kaleidoscope Tattoo & Art in Cambridge.

McCarron has had his own share of bad luck: His mother, Maureen, 58, was murdered in Malden in 1999.

“I’m not afraid of it,” McCarron said of the painting. “I don’t believe in the hocus-pocus and the bad mojo that comes with it.”

And if McCarron should pocket a buck or two from the oil’s sale, as he sees it, “Every murderer in the world should be rolled into one. They all owe me.”

McCarron keeps the Gacy under wraps, but said, “People do ask to see it. They get a chill through their body. I’ve had people say, ‘Oh my God, put that back in the box’.”

John Wayne Gacy, (aka Pogo) a suburban Chicago contractor and former shoe salesman, was executed in 1994 at age 52 for the torture and murders of 33 boys and men. Gacy, who also performed as Pogo the Clown at children’s parties, would kill his victims while raping them, then bury the bodies in a crawl space in his home.

Stone admits he once thought it would be ’super cool’ to own a Gacy original. “It’s the most evil of bastards who are most in demand”, he reasoned at the time.

And after all, actor Johnny Depp invested in a Gacy clown painting. Then again, Depp reportedly became so weirded out by the piece that he developed a pathological fear of clowns and unloaded the artwork.

John Wayne Gacy Resurfacing

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New Criminologist Library Archivist Joshua Brown, is currently working on procuring some absolutely astounding material on the late John Wayne Gacy. Josh’s latest files will include the unedited police video of what has been dubbed “The Summerdale Dig” - which is original footage shot by investigators in late December 1978, of the excavation and recovery of the bodies of the victims of the Chicago-based sexual sadist.

As twenty-nine bodies of young men and boys, all brutally, raped, tortured and eventually slain by the portly building contractor, were unearthed from beneath his garage, a barbecue pit in his back garden, and the crawl-space beneath is ranch-style home in Norwood Park, Des Plaines, the media watched in horror.

The crawl-space, where 27 of the bodies were discovered in shallow graves, some still with a noose around their neck or materials crammed into their throats and rectums, is one of the most frightening personal graveyards, kept by a serial killer, in the annals of criminal history.

Although Gacy would ultimately be charged and convicted of thirty-three murders - the final four victims were dumped, out of necessity as the man’s house was already full to capacity with decomposing corpses, in the Des Plaines river in Illinois - it was the idea of this monster being a pillar of his community, who dressed as a clown to entertain sick children, was active in politics and was a successful businessman, that could not be comprehended. How could someone so outwardly gregarious and even respectable, all the while be systematically eliminating and burying the bodies of violated young men under his house?

Shockwaves ripped not only through this man’s community, but the world at large, as people shook their heads in disbelief, wondering how he could have been killing, so prolifically for so many years, and getting away with it.

Christopher Berry-Dee makes some attempt to unravel the Gacy story in his excellent paper on the case, which will be included with this fascinating criminal case file.