Marilyn Manson in court over indecent behaviour

Marilyn Manson has appeared in court and pleaded no contest to a count of disorderly conduct and assault and battery after he allegedly gyrated his genitals against a security guard at a concert in Michigan last year. The plead followed a reduction from the original charge of misdemeanor after Manson's lawyers convinced the court that the performer's crotch-rubbing was committed for shock value and not for sexual gratification. The judge slapped Manson with $4,000 in fines and court costs, but no jail time. Manson is now facing a lawsuit by another security guard who claims he was groined in the head by Manson during a concert at the Historic Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis. The plaintiff, David Diaz, said the incident caused him to "endure ridicule and shame." He's seeking damages for battery and emotional distress. And if that wasn’t enough to be getting on with, he Manson is also being sued for wrongful death by the mother of a woman killed in a car accident after coming home from a party at the performer's Hollywood home last year. The suit accuses Manson of giving actress Jennifer Syme, the ex-girlfriend of Keanu Reeves, "various quantities of illegal substances" that incapacitated her and caused her to crash her car into three parked cars. An autopsy later found cocaine in her system.