Wednesday January 10, 2007
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Marilyn Manson’s romances have never been ordinary. Remember then-girlfriend Rose McGowan’s see-thru dress at the 1998 VMAs? And his goth-themed wedding to burlesque star Dita Von Teese at an Irish castle last year?
But months before his marriage to Von Teese, 34, crumbled (she filed for divorce on December 29), Manson’s love life took a turn for the…young. It seems that the shock rocker has his lone, pale eye fixed firmly on 20-year-old starlet Evan Rachel Wood, most famous for her roles in Thirteen and the TV series Once and Again).
According to a Manson source, he was with the actress in L.A. on September 28 -- his wife's birthday.
(Von Teese tells Us through her rep, "Sadly, the reports of our marital difficulties are true. I ask for your consideration and understanding during this painful and private time.")
But Manson is showing no sign of heartache. Wood was the center of his attention at a Beverly Hills house party on January 5 celebrating the musician’s 38th birthday.
“They were like an old married couple,” a partygoer tells Us. “She was always right next to him and so attentive.”
After opening gifts (which included a live scorpion), Manson led Wood and pals into a room to listen to songs from his next album. “Evan was really into it,” says the source, “like she was possessed by his genius.”
“She has been trying to look like Dita, wearing sleek black dresses and hanging out everywhere he’s been,” a source tells Us of Wood. “It’s so obvious what’s happening.”
A rep for Wood, however, maintains the pair – who met when Manson considered casting the actress to star in his upcoming film, Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll – are just pals. “Their friendship grew out of Evan’s admiration for Marilyn as an artist,” says the rep.
What does Dita think of her estranged husband’s new love interest? What happened when Marilyn attended the October premiere of Wood’s film Running With Scissors? How did Evan react when the rocker displayed a portrait he’d painted of the actress in a Hollywood gallery on Halloween night? For more details on the demise of the Marilyn's marriage to Dita and his new romance with Evan, pick up the current issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands this week.
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Posted by Noelle Hancock at 8:10 am ET
