Marilyn Manson Has a New Girlfriend

That's Manson's girlfriend on the left. Isn't she the spitting image of his ex, Dita Von Teese (right)?

Wait a second, that's not a new girlfriend. It's his cradle-snatched beau of many months, 20 year old Evan Rachel Wood from Thirteen. Would you have recognised her in a million years? What's with channeling your boyfriend's ex?

Not since Lisa Marie Presley hooked up with Michael Jackson in the 90s has a female been spotted taking such obvious style cues from her lover (though Presley wasn't imitating any ex wives, she just started to look like Jackson himself).

But then Michael supposedly copied HIS style from Diana Ross, whom he was said to be deeply in love with. So Jackson was an intermediary, influencing Lisa Marie Presley to adopt Ross's style in much the same way that Dita Von Tesse's look has migrated to Evan Rachel Wood through the romantic conduit of Marilyn Manson. It's all a rich tapestry.

In a bizarre gender reversal, Brad Pitt is often spotted playing style floozy, trying on his girlfriends' looks the way a flippant shopper tries on pantsuits.

It's that much more disturbing with Evan Rachel Wood because she's so young and impressionable, because the transformation was so full-on (remember her as a mousy-haired tomboy?) and because the man she's dating (not to mention the woman she's channeling) are so much older.

But as Von Teese emulations go, it's not bad.

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