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Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood: briefly engaged
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In the fall of 2017, numerous women accused the US film producer Harvey Weinstein of having molested or raped them.
For fear of their career, they would have been silent for a long time.
Weinstein has now been sentenced to 23 years in prison.
The coverage sparked a broad debate about sexual harassment and abuse of power in the workplace, under the hashtag #MeToo women around the world described how powerful people groped them, invited them to hotel room meetings or made sexist slogans against them.
The rock musician Marilyn Manson is now accused of abuse of power.
But the key witness, actress Evan Rachel Wood, did not work with Manson;
she was his girlfriend, for a short time even his fiancée.
Manson had "abused them terribly for years" and manipulated them, she wrote on Instagram.
Several women who were also in a relationship with him - including model Ashley Lindsay Morgan - report similar.
Manson denies everything.
There is apparently a development in the abuse of power debate.
Only recently, the singers FKA twigs and Sia spoke publicly about the psychological terror of their ex-boyfriend, the actor Shia LaBeouf.
FKA twigs reported LaBeouf.
He has since apologized, adding that he has been abusing himself and everyone around him for years.
The difference to Weinstein and the #MeToo debate is: You can't choose your superior, but you can usually choose your partner.
This makes it even more difficult sometimes to talk about incidents in a relationship.
It has a name - very unglamorous -: domestic violence.
The fact that the allegations against Manson are not dismissed as a private matter or the War of the Roses shows other affected persons that even externally strong, successful people can get into toxic relationships - and that it is not so easy to get out of there.
And the solidarity that Evan Rachel Wood, Ashley Lindsay Morgan and the others experience in public shows that it is worth taking this step.
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