WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (TND) - Sources say American singer/songwriter Marilyn Manson had a small glass enclosure in his West Hollywood apartment that he would use to lock up women he was dating, according to a report from Rolling Stone Magazine.
The report is based off of 55 interviews with people who have known Manson, the magazine says.
Manson, whose real name is Brian Hugh Warner, called the soundproof space the "Bad Girl's Room", according to those sources.
The space was originally built to be vocal/recording booth for a previous tenant, reports Rolling Stone, but it was converted after Manson moved in to the residence.
Rolling Stone says several people who dated Manson claim the space was "solitary-confinement cell used to psychologically torture women."
A former assistant to Marilyn Manson told the magazine Mason enjoyed showing off and telling others about the glass enclosure.
“He always had a joking, bragging tone,” says former assistant Ashley Walters, who is currently suing Manson for sexual assault.
Manson has already denied allegations against him, writing on Instagram that "these recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality" and that his "intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual with like-minded partners."
Manson himself has mentioned and shown off the room before. In a 2011 interview with V Magazine, the room is briefly named and mentioned as a reporter tours the apartment.
Another source, Ashley Morgan Smithline, told Rolling Stone Manson made her stay in the "Bad Girls' Room" on several occasions when they were dating, sometimes for hours at a time. She is currently suing him for sexual assault and unlawful imprisonment.
“At first, he made it sound cool... Then, he made it sound very punitive. Even if I was screaming, no one would hear me.” Smithline told Rolling Stone. “First you fight, and he enjoys the struggle. I learned to not fight it, because that was giving him what he wanted. I just went somewhere else in my head.”
The report details the accounts and remembrances of several other ex-girlfriends of Manson.
A Game of Thrones actress tells the magazine Manson deprived her of sleep and food, whipped her without consent, and at one time chased her around with an ax. The ax was reportedly the final straw in that relationship.
Rolling Stone says one girlfriend called the apartment a "meat locker", and another called it a "black refrigerator". Multiple exes accused Manson of inflicting repeated acts of mental, physical, and sexual abuse, says the magazine, and those acts have left those exes "with crippling bouts of anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and PTSD."
Still, accusers say that Manson "was able to hide his abuses in plain sight behind the Marilyn Manson character he created and the music industry that supported, and profited from, his living-demon shtick," writes Rolling Stone.