Marilyn Manson Drops Twiggy Ramirez Following Jessicka Addams Rape, Abuse Allegations

Marilyn Manson has fired his longtime bassist Jeordie White who performs under the name Twiggy Ramirez on Tuesday following rape allegations against the musician by his ex-girlfriend Jessicka Addams, lead singer in the band Jack Off Jill last week.

On Tuesday, Manson released a short statement via his Twitter account saying: "I have decided to part ways with Jeordie White as a member of Marilyn Manson. He will be replaced for the upcoming tour. I wish him well."

White has not yet responded to Addams 's Oct. 20 Facebook post which detailed the physical and psychological abuse in addition to rape while the two were in a relationship in the 1990s — a relationship Addams described as being exceptionally turbulent in her post.

Last week, Manson released a statement after the allegations were made public. "I knew Jessicka and Jeordie had a romantic relationship many years ago and I considered and still consider Jessika to be a friend. I knew nothing about these allegations until very recently and am saddened by Jessicka's obvious distress," he said according to Pitchfork, an online magazine.

Jessicka thanked the band for their immediate action against White in a Twitter post.

Addams came forward with the details of the alleged assault in a lengthy Facebook post on Oct. 20. In her post, she wrote how she and White entered into a relationship in the 1990s when she was 18 years old. She detailed how their relationship eventually turned physically violent in the following months and years. She also detailed a pattern of abuse by the musician that began with jealousy and then subsequently escalated into beating her repeatedly.

In her post, Addams also wrote how during a tour break with Nine Inch Nails the musician allegedly visited her at their friend Pete’s apartment.

"He forced me onto the floor with his hand around my neck," she wrote. "I said NO. I said NO. I said it so loud enough, that Pete came rushing in from the other room to get him off of me. But I had been raped. I had been raped by somebody I thought I loved," she added.

Addams said she did not come forward publicly with the accusations earlier in 1997 as her band's record company warned her that their band could be blackballed in the industry.

"There would be a very good chance that my band Jack Off Jill would be blackballed by concert promoters, radio programmers, and other bands and their managers," she wrote on Facebook. She also said that if she came forward at the time, her band would have had a risk of losing their record deal.

"As they were certain no one would ever take a rape victim in this male-dominated music business seriously, never mind a ferocious, disenfranchised, outspoken overweight frontwoman such as me!" Addams wrote in her post.

She concluded her lengthy Facebook post by encouraging others to come forward and raise their voice against the abuse they suffer. In her post, she also praised men who support and respect women. "For women to own our power we must stand up for each other. It’s the only way we can confront and combat men who think they hold power over us. I am thankful to know that there are men out there who do not share this gross ideology and stand with us. This is an intersectional uphill battle for women and the men who are scared for their reputation with other men to defend us," she wrote.