Game of Thrones actor Esmé Bianco sued Marilyn Manson on Friday, alleging sexual, bodily and emotional abuse. Manson’s legal professional referred to as the allegations “provably false.” In the lawsuit filed in federal court docket in Los Angeles, Bianco says that Manson violated human trafficking regulation by bringing her to California from England beneath the false pretences of roles in music movies and films that by no means materialized.
The lawsuit alleges that in 2009, Manson, whose authorized title is Brian Warner, flew Bianco to Los Angeles to shoot a video for the music, “I want to kill you like they do in the movies.” The lawsuit additionally says that Bianco was anticipated to remain at Manson’s dwelling as an alternative of the resort the place she had been booked, and there was no crew, solely Manson himself capturing with a cellphone.
Manson disadvantaged Bianco of meals and sleep, although gave her alcohol and medicines, locked her in a bed room, whipped her, gave her electrical shocks, tried to drive her to have intercourse with one other girl and threatened to enter her room and rape her throughout the evening, the lawsuit alleges. No video was ever launched.
Manson’s legal professional Howard E. King responded: “These claims are provably false. To be clear, this suit was only filed after my client refused to be shaken down by Ms Bianco and her lawyer and give in to their outrageous financial demands based on conduct that simply never occurred. We will vigorously contest these allegations in court and are confident that we will prevail.”
Manson and Bianco started a long-distance relationship later in 2009, the lawsuit says. Manson once more introduced Bianco to Los Angeles in 2011, ostensibly to look in his function movie “Phantasmagoria,” although that undertaking additionally by no means materialized.
During that go to, Manson wouldn’t enable Bianco to depart dwelling with out his permission, chased her round their condominium with an axe, reduce her with a “Nazi knife” with out her consent and photographed the cuts and posted the photographs on-line, additionally with out her consent, the lawsuit alleges.
“It took Ms Bianco years to understand the extent of Mr Warner’s physical, sexual, psychological, and emotional abuse. Her career suffered due to the deterioration of her mental health,” the lawsuit says. “She deals with complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, anxiety, depression, and panic attacks to this day as a result.”
The Associated Press typically doesn’t determine individuals who say they’ve been sexually assaulted. But Bianco mentioned in a press release that she is coming ahead publicly to air her allegations with hopes that others will do the identical.
The lawsuit mentioned that on the time, Bianco feared for her security if she didn’t adjust to Manson’s calls for and didn’t go to authorities. But her legal professional Jay D. Ellwanger mentioned she has now come ahead and spoken to the FBI and native regulation enforcement.
Bianco first aired many of the allegations in February. She was one of a number of girls who spoke out after actor Evan Rachel Wood mentioned on social media that Manson sexually, bodily and emotionally abused her throughout their relationship. Manson’s file label and brokers dropped him on the time.
In response to the allegations in February, Manson wrote on Instagram that they have been “horrible distortions of reality. My intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual with like-minded partners. Regardless of how — and why — others are now choosing to misrepresent the past, that is the truth.”
Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives additionally mentioned in February that they have been investigating home violence allegations in opposition to Manson courting from 2009 to 2011 in West Hollywood. They didn’t determine the girl who made the report.
Bianco performed Ros within the first three seasons of HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”
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