A videographer employed to movie Marilyn Manson‘s August 18th, 2019 live performance on the Financial institution Of New Hampshire Pavilion in Gilford, NH has efficiently revived her civil lawsuit towards the embattled shock rocker. That civil assault case was initially dismissed again in February of this 12 months after plaintiff Susan Fountain failed to look in court docket because the case was set to go to trial. That absence has since been chalked as much as a clerical error by Fountain‘s lawyer Jennifer A. Clingo, who attributed the scheduling mix-up to being brought on by a severe medical challenge she was present process on the time.

Clingo has since filed an enchantment for the dismissal, which has now been granted in a Los Angeles court docket. In 2021, Fountain introduced that civil lawsuit towards Manson, claiming assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional misery. Fountain was working as a videographer employed by the venue through the evening of the live performance. Whereas broadcasting the efficiency to the screens enjoying behind the band, Manson was seen within the beneath footage to stroll over and spit straight on the digicam being operated by Fountain.

Fountain alleges that Manson later returned and “occluded one in all his nostrils and expelled bodily fluids” onto her throughout that efficiency. Manson‘s bodily fluids have been stated to have made contact along with her pores and skin, resulting in her search medical testing for any ailments. Fountain alleges that Manson had introduced he had ‘swine flu’ from the stage.

Per a report from Rolling Stone, Fountain‘s submitting partly reads:

“Plaintiff not solely suffered emotional misery from the offensive touching itself, but in addition from the worry and nervousness that she might have doubtlessly contracted a communicable illness on account of the publicity to defendant’s bodily fluids. She was pressured to endure medical testing instantly following the incident and several other months later to make sure that she had not contracted a severe illness.”

On September 18th of this 12 months, Manson accepted a plea deal with reference to those incidents, coming into a no contest plea to a misdemeanor easy assault cost. That deal noticed a separate cost dropped.

He was fined $1,4000 and sentenced to serve 20 hours of group service for the matter. It’s not but clear what potential damages Fountain is in search of with this civil lawsuit. Rolling Stone notice that Manson was not current in court docket for this newest improvement, nor was his illustration.