THE BEAST

Former   MEGADETH   bassist   David Ellefson   is parting ways with several signed pieces of the band's gear.

Ellefson 's   official merchandise site   has listed five signed   MEGADETH -related items, including an album-used Hamer 12-string bass guitar (price: $1,500), a tour-played black Jackson CBXM IV David Ellefson X Series signature bass ($1,500), a tour-used Jackson X Series David Ellefson signature series concert bass CBX five-string bass guitar ($2,500),   MEGADETH   tour-used Hartke Hydrive 8x10" cabinets in flight cases ($4,000) and a   MEGADETH   tour-used flight case with five Hartke LH1000 Heads ($6,500).

Ellefson   was fired from   MEGADETH   earlier this year after sexually tinged messages and explicit video footage involving the bassist were posted on   Twitter . At the time,   Ellefson   was accused of grooming an underage girl through videos and online messages.   David   has denied the allegation and has repeatedly said the woman in question had been a willing, consenting adult at the time of their virtual sexual encounter.   Ellefson   accompanied his denial with an alleged screenshot of a statement from the woman with whom he was supposedly involved at the time. In it, the woman admitted to recording the alleged intimate communications she had with   Ellefson   and called herself "naïve" for sharing them with a friend without the musician's permission.

David   was in   MEGADETH   from the band's inception in 1983 to 2002, and again from 2010 until his latest exit.

In 2004,   Ellefson   filed an $18.5-million lawsuit against   Dave Mustaine , alleging the   MEGADETH   frontman shortchanged him on profits and backed out of a deal to turn   Megadeth Inc.   over to him when the band broke up in 2002. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed and   Ellefson   rejoined   MEGADETH   in 2010.

David , a Christian who launched the   Mega Life Ministries   worship group in 2007, studied for a year at Concordia Lutheran Seminary in St. Louis nearly a decade ago.

Via Blabbermouth