Gidget Gein

b. 1969-09-11

d. 2008-10-09

Second bassist and co-founder of the rock band Marilyn Manson.

Gidget Gein also worked as a 'bag man', an actor and was at the forefront of the "UnPop" & "GaGa" style art and fashion movements.

Gidget Gein played with Marilyn Manson from the Spooky Kids era into the recording of their full-length debut, "Portrait Of An American Family". Shortly before the album was finished, he was fired from the band, due to heroin addiction overwhelming his musical commitments. Years later, he became drug free and went on to reform a friendship with Manson, even appearing in the band's (s)AINT music video and organizing art shows together. He continued to use his Manson-era stage name of Gidget Gein, a combination of fictional character Gidget and serial killer Ed Gein.

He passed away from a heroin overdose on October 9, 2008.