Fashion stylist claims Marilyn Manson held a gun to her head during a photoshoot in his home in 2011

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A fashion stylist has become the ninth woman to make allegations of abuse against Marilyn Manson, claiming that the singer held a gun to her forehead while she was working at a shoot in his home in 2011.

Visual filmmaker Love Bailey had initially made the claims in social media posts in 2017, yet resurfaced the allegations this week as more women came forward.

Bailey, who is trans, posted a video to her Instagram account on Tuesday evening in which she claimed that Manson told her he didn’t ‘like f*****s’ as he held the weapon to her head. 

At the time, she was allegedly attempting to help an unnamed Hollywood actress who was blackout in his room prepare for a photoshoot. 

Bailey is among the eight other women who have now alleged abuse against Manson since actress Evan Rachel Wood, his former fiancé, posted a statement on Instagram on Monday accusing him of ‘horrifically abusing’ her for years.

Manson issued a blanket denial on Monday night, calling the allegations ‘distortions of reality’ and insisting all of his relationships had been consensual. 

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On Monday, Bailey had posted a picture of Manson to Instagram in which she called him a ‘vile human’.

‘I’m not a fan of cancel culture but when someone like @marilynmanson pulls a gun to your head, it’s time to speak up,’ Bailey wrote.

‘It’s 2021 and we have to take away the power of these awful people, so they don’t do harm anyone else.’

Bailey followed up on Tuesday evening with a five-minute video in which she spoke at more length of her claims, as she told the Daily Beast that she is getting in touch with the authorities about her story.

She also claimed that she is keeping the name of the actress involved in the incident under wraps as they pursue legal counsel.

‘I feel it’s a pressing matter that I speak directly to the camera and tell my testimony of what has happened the night I met Marilyn Manson,’ Bailey begins, stating that she was a 20-year-old stylist when she was asked to carry out a photoshoot for the actress for LoveCat magazine, now known as Galore.

She said that she was asked to follow the actress to Manson’s home where they could set up for the shoot.   

Bailey claims that she remembers three rooms in Manson’s house, including the recording studio that was plastered with posters of scantily clad women.

In the living room, the stylist claims in the video that the floor was covered in drawings that appeared to be grouped together in a corner of the room in an attempt to open ‘some demonic portal’. 

From there, Bailey continued to claim that she was beckoned into the bedroom where Manson and the actress had just had sex and she saw a glass cage in the corner of the room with a lock on. 

She says that when she entered the room, the actress appeared ‘blackout wasted’ and was ‘stumbling’.  

Bailey claimed that she went over to the actress, but it was at this point that Manson pulled out the gun.

‘I went over to ****  and as I’m holding **** and trying to get her balance with her, Marilyn pulls a gun to my head,’ she claims. 

‘A big Glock, a metal Glock, not a toy gun. He puts it straight to my forehead and says “I don’t like F*****s” as he laughs in this really dark aggressive tone.

‘This was not a joke. This was not humorous behavior. This was not something to take lightly and I remember being stunned in that moment,’ Bailey adds. 

At this point in the videos, Bailey becomes emotional as she states that she is finally ‘brave enough to come out about this after all these years because of Evan’s testimony’.

‘Years I’ve been silenced into not saying anything because of the industry, because of the fashion industry, because of these photographers that will blacklist you for mentioning their name,’ Bailey continues. 

‘And for so long I’ve been silent but now I think it’s time. I think it’s time I come clean about my story and my experience.’

In a separate statement to the Daily Beast, Bailey revealed how she questioned ‘am I going to die?’ as Manson pulled the gun.

‘I felt powerless, I felt stunned and I was shocked. I was in this state where I was asking myself, isn’t he too famous to kill me?’ she said. 

‘I remember all these thoughts flashing through my head, and here I was, this young 20-year-old stylist just trying to get the job done and I was met with a Glock.

I was just afraid for my life at that point,’ Bailey added. 

‘I didn’t say anything after that because the fashion industry is so small. If you say something, then the photographer will blacklist you and you lose your career.’

Within the video, Bailey also included testimony from two other people, including her assistant at the shoot in Manson’s house.

Her assistant claims to have seen ‘demonic art’ in the living room and that Manson had said no assistants were allowed.

Another friend claims that Bailey called her straight after the incident and was ‘in shock’ and unable to believe what had happened.

Bailey claims she has since been getting death threats since she posted her story on Monday, with fashion photographers threatening her.

‘I thought they were my heroes,’ Bailey said in the video of Manson. ‘I looked up to his music until that instance.

‘I was just doing my job,’ she claims before repeating that she now felt r4eady to come forward because of the other allegations. 

‘I don’t give a f***k about the fashion industry, I don’t give a f**k about styling and upholding these false believes and these false powers,’ she states.

‘I don’t care anymore. I don’t want to work with these people anyway.’

She added that she stood with the other women who have made allegations over the past two days and that she believed they are entitled to ‘reparations’.

‘I think these victims, including myself, have suffered post-traumatic stress from these incidents and he needs to offer reparations for the abuse. He needs to offer reparations for their medical bills, their psychology bills, their therapists, whatever,’ she told the Daily Beast.

‘There’s a scar on my life from that instant. He took a part of my innocence. He needs to be set as an example that men in the industry cannot get away with this and people shouldn’t glorify people like this.

‘There are a million talented people out there. Why is it these men that we glorify? Why is it these men that we give the power over us?’

After Bailey shared her video, it was reposted by Wood who voiced her support.

On Monday, five women made coordinated statements about how Manson allegedly treated them on Instagram.

They are Westworld actress Wood, 33; an artist known only as Gabriella; photographer Ashley Walters; model Sarah McNeilly; and model Ashley Lindsay Morgan.

They claimed they had been victims of sexual misconduct, manipulation, and physical and emotional abuse at Manson’s hands.

The women’s allegations vary but all say Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, left them with PTSD after forcing them into blood pacts, plying them with drugs, becoming violent with them and gaslighting them.

On Monday night, another three women made allegations on social media that Wood re-posted on her account. They did not go into detail about their relationships with Manson but all three said he was an abuser.

Those women are Scarlett Kapella, Brittany Leigh, and Torii Lynn, with Bailey becoming the ninth woman shortly afterward.

Manson has denied all the claims since they began to resurface on Monday.

He said: ‘Obviously, my life and my art have long been magnets for controversy, but these recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality.

‘My intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual with like-minded partners. Regardless of how — and why — others are now choosing to misrepresent the past, that is the truth.’

Comments were turned off the post, but it was liked by Manson’s wife, Lindsay Usich. She has not released her own statement.

Rose McGowan, one of his former girlfriends, said in a statement that while he was never abusive to her, she ‘stands with’ the accusers on Monday.

Dita Von Teese – who he was married to – has not commented on the allegations, nor has she ever made any of her own in the past.

Manson has since been dropped by his record label, Loma Vista Records, talent agency CAA and he has been edited out of American Gods and Creepshow, two shows he was taking part in.

There are now also questions around how the allegations came to the surface.

California State Senator Susan Rubio wrote to the FBI and the Justice Department demanding an investigation into Manson on January 21 – a week before the claims became public.

No investigation has been launched and Manson has never been arrested for any of the women’s allegations.

Among the most extreme and specific of the allegations were those from a woman named only as Gabriella who posted her story to social media.

The artist claims she dated Marilyn Manson for six months between 2015 and 2016 says he drove her to attempt suicide after tying her up, depriving her of sleep and plying her with drugs during their relationship which began when she was 22 and he was 46.

Gabriella posted her allegations on Instagram at around the same time as Wood on Monday. She shared photographs of herself with Manson and texts she says he sent her to add validity to her story.

She says they met in October 2015 at a show. They dated for six months, she said, during which time she alleges he tied her up, force fed her drugs, deprived her of sleep and claimed he was a member of the MS-13 gang.

She claims that on Christmas Day 2015, he canceled plans with her last minute and that it left her so devastated she tried to kill herself.

‘I met Brian Warner, known as Marilyn Manson, backstage in October 2015. I was 22 and he was 46. The first thing that he ever said to me was that he was “going to bite me”.

‘We talked while the opening band played and after the show, he invited me on his tour bus.

‘He immediately love bombed me – telling me tat he felt like he’d known me for years and I felt similarly. He offered me cocaine. He told me to take off all my clothes and take a shower in front of him.

‘He asked for my number as I was getting ready to leave and invited me to his show the following evening,’ she said in a statement.

She posted photos of the pair together which showed her before and after she claims he told her to dye her hair from pink to platinum, and of the texts she says he sent her including one where he told her loved her. 

One disturbing allegation is that Manson deprived her of sleep. Other women have also accused him of playing loud music to stop them from sleeping while they were dating.

‘One instance after I agreed to get matching tattoos. He was forcing drugs in my mouth while I was laying down in his home getting tattooed. Afterwards, I was exhausted and went upstairs to bed.

‘He turned the lights on, started throwing things and yelling at me. He was irate that I had fallen asleep and not watched him get tattooed.

‘It was easier to be controlled if I was sedated and tired,’ Gabriella wrote.

Christmas Day 2015 was when she claims he canceled their plans last minute.

‘On Christmas Day, he canceled plans with me, and I was devastated. I felt betrayed and humiliated because I had sacrificed so many parts of myself to please him.

‘The jarring reality had finally consumed me, and I tried to kill myself. I was 5150’d and spent Christmas in the hospital.

‘He would threaten me by saying that I should be scared of him. He would often brag about being affiliated with the MS13 gang,’ she said.

Eventually, she said she ended the relationship but that she was in a state of ‘shock’.

‘This relationship left me disoriented and shattered. I couldn’t put into words for the longest time exactly what happened to me. He gaslit me so much I began to gaslight myself,’ she said.

The other women who have accused Manson of abuse also posted on Instagram. They made less detailed and specific references to sexual, mental, and physical abuse. 

Wood reposted most of the women’s allegations on her own social media accounts and she shared a letter from California State Senator Susan Rubio to the California AG which demands a police investigation into the claims.