p2pnet news | Music:- Marilyn Manson is counter-suing former bandmate Stephen Bier, who’s already suing Manson.

Manson, real name Brian Warner, says Bier (aka Madonna Wayne Gacy) hadn’t fulfilled contractual obligations to properly promote Marilyn Manson, the band, “when he was still tickling the ivories for them,” says E! Online.

Bier played on all of the studio albums except for this year’s Eat Me, Drink Me.

By 1996 Manson had become the group’s leader and focal point and he and Bier dissolved their business partnership. But, “the keyboardist continued to collect income from the group’s album royalties, concerts and merchandise sales, the suit says,” according to the story.

“He may still be raking it in from their Antichrist Superstar days, but, according to Bier, his checks have been a few figures short,” says E! Online

“The disgruntled musician sued Manson in August for more than $20 million, claiming the uneven-eyed frontman has been bilking the band out of massive amounts of money that he used to pay for, among other things, his lavish wedding to now ex-wife Dita Von Teese, her $150,000 engagement ring, his Vicadin-and-coke habit and a subsequent $3,000-per-day stay in rehab.

“Other oddities detailed in Bier’s lawsuit that were allegedly financed by the band that ended up lining the walls of Manson’s Chatsworth home included a taxidermy model of a grizzly bear, African masks made of human skin and a collection of vintage Nazi paraphernalia, such as a handbag that supposedly once belonged to Hitler’s mistress, Eva Braun.”

A hearing is scheduled for January 23 on Manson’s motion to quash a subpoena issued for his company’s bank and credit card records, adds the story.

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Also See:

E! Online – Marilyn Manson Bites Back at Ex-Bandmate, December 20, 2007

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