Entertainment- LA County Sheriff's Dept. officers raided
Marilyn Manson 's home on Monday, multiple reports said. - Sources told TMZ, People, and Rolling Stone it related to the
sexual assault allegations against him.
Investigators from the LA County Sheriff's Department raided Marilyn Manson's home as part of the sexual assault allegations made against him, multiple reports said.
Law enforcement sources told TMZ that detectives from the Special Victims Unit went to his home with a search warrant on Monday morning as part of their investigation into the allegations.
Manson was not home and detectives forced themselves inside, TMZ reported, citing the sources.
They took hard drives and other forms of media storage, TMZ reported.
The sheriff's office confirmed to People that officers searched his home on Monday, and had a search warrant.
A source in the sheriff's department also told Rolling Stone that an address associated with Manson was searched on Monday morning, and that Special Victims Unit investigators looked for his belongings in relation to the sexual assault allegations.
The LA County Sheriff's Department declined to comment to Insider.
Multiple women have accused Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse. There are currently multiple lawsuits against him.
Evan Rachel Wood was the first to come forward in February via an Instagram post, accusing her ex-fiancé Manson of "grooming" her as a teenager and "horrifically" abusing her for years. Manson denied the allegations made by Wood and called them "horrible distortions of reality." Manson was subsequently dropped from his label Loma Vista Recordings.
Wood was supported by musician Phoebe Bridgers who tweeted that Manson "referred to a room in his house as the 'rape room'" when she visited his house as a teenager. In the months that followed, "Game of Thrones" actress Esmé Bianco, the lead singer of the British rock band Wolf Alice Ellie Roswell, and Manson's former assistant Ashley Walters, also came forward with their own allegations.
Bianco was the first person to take legal action against Manson in April. Others who have filed lawsuits against the 52-year-old artist include his former assistant, his ex-girlfriend Ashley Morgan Smithline, and a woman who has chosen to remain anonymous according to a TMZ report.
Last month, a federal judge in California shot down Manson's bid to dismiss a lawsuit from Bianco, who is accusing the rock singer of sexual assault and battery on multiple occasions between 2009 and 2013.