LACONIA, N.H. – Marilyn Manson used to be sentenced to 20 hours of community service and a high quality on Monday after pleading no contest to blowing his nose on a videographer at a 2019 live performance in New Hampshire.
The surprise rocker, 54, sought after to seem by the use of video for his listening to on the misdemeanor fee, however the pass judgement on required him to be within the court docket in Laconia, about 30 miles north of Concord, the state capital.
Manson, whose prison title is Brian Warner, used to be charged with two misdemeanor counts of simple assault stemming from the come across with the videographer on the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion in Gilford on Aug. 19, 2019.
Manson pleaded no contest to simply the nose-blowing fee in a completely negotiated plea settlement with prosecutors. The prosecutors agreed to disregard the opposite fee, which alleged that he spit on the videographer. A no contest plea manner Manson isn’t contesting the fee and does now not admit guilt.
Manson used to be fined slightly greater than $1,400 as a part of the deal, with $200 suspended. He wishes to stay arrest-free and notify native police of any New Hampshire performances for 2 years.
The pass judgement on agreed to permit Manson to serve his community service in California. He discussed to newshounds that he would possibly select to paintings with other people in restoration. Manson has to give evidence of his community service by means of Feb. 4.
According to a police affidavit, Manson approached videographer Susan Fountain within the venue’s level pit space, put his face shut to her digital camera and spit a “big lougee” at her. She used to be struck on each palms with saliva. He approached her once more later, kneeling and masking one nose sooner than blowing the opposite on her palms and palms.
Fountain mentioned by the use of a commentary that it “the most disgusting thing a human being could have done.”
Manson “blows a significant amount of mucous at Fountain,” a police sergeant who reviewed concert video footage said in the affidavit. After that, the camera view changes to another one and you can see Manson “point and laugh at Fountain as she gets down and walks away,” the affidavit mentioned.
Monday, Manson walked into the primary front of the courthouse, via safety. He used to be dressed in a swimsuit, dressed head to toe in black, and darkish sun shades. Security personnel referred to him as “Mr. Warner,” and he identified himself in court as “Brian Warner,” using a soft speaking voice.
He otherwise only answered “yes” to the judge’s questions asking if he understood the proceeding, and made no statement. Prosecutor Andrew Livernois said it was his first offense and he had no prior record.
Fountain used to be now not found in courtroom.
Manson first of all pleaded not guilty to each fees in 2021. He used to be scheduled to pass to trial in August. His attorney had mentioned that the kind of filming Fountain used to be doing regularly exposes videographers to “incidental contact” with bodily fluids.
“The defendant’s performance for the past twenty years are well known to include shocking and evocative antics similar to those that occurred here,” attorney Kent Barker wrote. “The alleged victim consented to exposing herself to potential contact with sweat, saliva and phlegm in close quarters.”
Barker also had said Manson planned to argue that any contact related to spitting or sneezing was unintentional.
If Manson had gone to trial on the charges, each could have resulted in a jail sentence of less than a year and a $2,000 fine if convicted.
Manson emerged as a musical megastar within the mid-Nineties, referred to as a lot for dating public controversy as for hit songs like “The Beautiful People” and hit album’s like 1996’s “Antichrist Superstar” and 1998’s “Mechanical Animals.”
In May, a California judge threw out key sections of Manson’s lawsuit against his former fiancee, “Westworld” actor Evan Rachel Wood, claiming she fabricated public allegations that he sexually and bodily abused her all over their dating and inspired different girls to do the similar. He is interesting the ruling.
Manson’s swimsuit, filed ultimate yr, alleges that Wood and any other girl named as a defendant, Illma Gore, defamed Manson, deliberately led to him emotional misery and derailed his profession in song, TV and picture.
Several girls have sued Manson lately with allegations of sexual and different abuse. Most had been pushed aside or settled, together with a swimsuit filed by means of “Game of Thrones” actor Esme Bianco.
The Associated Press does now not normally title individuals who say they have got been sexually abused until they arrive ahead publicly.
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Whittle reported from Portland, Maine.