Have real-life vampires started roaming the streets of LA? Nope. Marilyn Manson is just back on the scene. When last MM was on the radar, he was embroiled in some break-up drama with ex-girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood (which he seemed to get over very quickly as he was spotted in the close company of a new female friend shortly after the break-up, who he used as a subject of some of his paintings). But with a new album, The High End of Low, on the horizon (it hits stores in a couple of weeks), MM has come out of hiding once again to make his presence known in Hollywood. Here are a few pics of the heavily shrouded Manson emerging from dinner at Katsuya here in Hollywood last night:

See, even Marilyn Manson has jumped on board the Twilight craze! He makes a pretty convincing vampire, don’t you think? It would seem that in the second photo, MM was in the company of his new ladyfriend Isani Griffith (the same girl he was runnin’ around with last December) … it’s clear the man never seems to want for female companionship. I have to say, I’ve been a pretty big Marilyn Manson fan from way back in the day but the last couple of albums have sucked royally. I’m hoping this new disc will be a return to form (a la the Antichrist Superstar days). While I’m pretty much over his shockgoth sctick, I am hoping that he is capable of putting out good music again. I guess we’ll have to wait and see. Are any of y’all looking forward to his new disc? Are any of you here in SoCal planning on going to his in-store appearance at Hot Topic at Hollywood & Highland on the 26th?

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Marilyn Manson, who was seen with a mysterious new young woman in Miami, FL this week, officially unveiled his “special new lady friend” to the world at an art opening at 101 Exhibit in Miami’s Design District on Thursday night. MM was on hand for the opening night event of his Trismegistus with his new chicky on his arm (and lips) who we now know to be a 24-year old model named Isani Griffith. Here are a few pics of MM and Isani at the art event and some info on the Trismegistus opening:

Marilyn Manson’s shock tactics worked again. With art, this time. Manson, real name Brian Hugh Warner, showed up at the media preview of Trismegistus at 101 Exhibit in Miami’s Design District Thursday night. Most, if not all, the works in the collection were pretty grisly. But who would expect anything else? The Goth rocker-turned-painter, 39, is taller than he appears in photos and dressed in head-to-toe black, from his signature floppy witch’s hat to his Herman Munster boots. ”I paint people that I think are interesting,” he said simply. We’re not sure what crowd he runs with, but some pieces were tough to look at — like The Man Who Eats His Fingers, a ghostly apparition, mouth bloodied, showing off his missing digits. Others were more tongue in cheek, such as Ready or Not Tot, a creepy baby with werewolf-like lower teeth. Three recent paintings of a blue-eyed mystery woman, ”Isani,” put the Evan Rachel Wood reconciliation rumors to rest. ”That’s my special lady friend,” said the man who took his stage name from icons Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson. Then, rambling a bit: ”I really don’t want to start the next chapter of my life by … burdening someone with being the solution to my problems — or the source of my problems.” Trismegistus is the name of Manson’s 2004 painting of a three-headed Jesus, done on an antique embalming table he found on eBay. ”That one was during a period in my life where I was feeling a bit hopeless. For me it signifies a resurrection and believing in myself,” he said. ”I admit, it’s a little gruesome — even for me.” Isani (no last name given) later showed up looking eerily like Manson’s ex, Dita Von Teese. The two left together to Louis lounge at the Gansevoort South, where they cuddled way into the night.

Well, it turns out that Isani’s last name is Griffith and appears to be just the sort of young lady that tickles MM’s fancy. It really does look like Evan Rachel Wood has been cast aside for a new model (pardon the pun). After the jump, check out a couple of pre-Marilyn Manson photos of Isani in more her innocent days of yore along with a couple of her modeling pics …

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