Esmé Bianco, the Game of Thrones star who earlier this year accused Marilyn Manson of physical and psychological abuse, is now suing the shock rocker and his former manager of 25 years, Tony Ciulla.
Rolling Stone reports that the complaint, filed today (April 30), alleges that Manson “used drugs, force, and threats of force to coerce sexual acts from Ms. Bianco on multiple occasions,” “committed sexual acts” with her while she unconscious or unable to consent, and sexually battered her, “spanking, biting, cutting, and whipping Ms. Bianco’s buttocks, breasts, and genitals… al without the consent of Plaintiff.”
She also says that Manson forced her into “unpaid labor,” including
Additionally, Bianco further claims that Manson (né Brian Warner) and his Ciulla “violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act” by “bringing her from London to Los Angeles under the pretense that she would be acting in a music video that never came out and a film that was never made.”
And since Manson had sponsored Bianco’s work visa, she says, the singer “was able to control Ms. Bianco by threatening to withdraw support if she displeased him.” Consequently, she alleges that was forced to do “unpaid labor,” including “serving and preparing food for Mr. Warner and his guests, cleaning his apartment, consulting on his album, providing uncredited backup vocals during the creative process for the album Born Villain, and being offered up to his guests and bandmates to ‘spank.’”
Neither Manson nor Ciulla have issued a statement regarding the suit. Ciulla dropped Manson in February, after a flood of similar accusations were leveled against the shock rocker.
That flood began with actress Evan Rachel Wood — a star of HBO’s Westworld and Manson’s former fiancée — who says that Manson “horrifically abused me for years.” She elaborated on those accusations a week later, at which point she also said that Manson’s wife, Lindsay Usich, and someone named Leslee Lane were “conspiring to release photos of me when I was UNDERAGE, after being given large amounts of drugs and alcohol, after Brian performed on Halloween in Las Vegas, to ‘ruin my career’ and ‘shut me up.’”
While Wood has implied in the past that Manson abused her, this has been the first time she explicitly named the singer. After that, there was a deluge of similar accusations from other women. Earlier, a former assistant claimed that he had seen Manson physically and emotionally abuse Usich.
Manson has called the previous accusations against him “horrible distortions of reality.” But the fallout has already been tremendous, with the singer being dropped by his label, Loma Vista, his agency, CAA, and Ciulla. He was also fired from television roles on the programs American Gods and Creepshow.
Two former Manson collaborators, Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland and Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor, have both spoken out against the shock rocker. Borland called Manson “a bad fucking guy” and asserted that his victims “are speaking the truth,” while Reznor said that he has “been vocal over the years about my dislike of Manson as a person and cut ties with him nearly 25 years ago.” He also denied, not for the first time, a story from Manson’s memoir, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, in which the singer claims that he and Reznor plied two women with alcohol and then took advantage of them once they were heavily inebriated.
Otep frontwoman Otep Shamaya recently shared an unsettling story about Manson, as did singer/songwriter Phoebe Bridgers. The actor Corey Feldman has also accused Manson of “decades [of] mental and emotional abuse.”
Sharon Osbourne, Ozzy’s wife and manager, addressed calls to comment on Manson by saying her relationship with him was strictly business and that she wasn’t privy to his personal life.
On Wednesday, February 3, police reportedly “swarmed” Manson’s home after a friend contacted authorities to say they couldn’t reach the singer and were concerned for his well-being. Although Manson never emerged from his house, a rep for the singer told police he was “fine.” Two weeks later, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department confirmed it was investigating the singer.
California State Senator Susan Rubio has requested that the FBI investigate Manson, and one victim, Bianca Allaine, has said that she is, indeed, meeting with federal agents. There has been no word as to whether or not the LA Sheriff’s investigation or Allaine’s meeting with the FBI is in any way connected to Rubio’s request.