Actress Esme Bianco, who starred in the hit TV series Game of Thrones, is suing Marilyn Manson. She accuses the musician of sexual, physical and emotional abuse after he brought her to the United States under false pretenses.
In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles, Esme Bianco says Marilyn Manson violated human trafficking laws by bringing her to California from England under the false pretense of filming music videos and films that never came to fruition.
The lawsuit alleges that in 2009 Manson, whose official name is Brian Warner, flew with Bianco to Los Angeles to shoot a video clip. The lawsuit says that Bianco was supposed to stay at Manson's house, not a hotel, and there was no team, only Manson himself took it off the phone.
The lawsuit alleges that Manson deprived Bianco of food and sleep, locked her in the bedroom, whipped her, electrocuted her, tried to force her to have sex with another woman, and threatened to rape her. The lawsuit claims that not a single video of her participation has been published.
He later brought Bianco back to Los Angeles in 2011 to film his feature film Phantasmagoria, although this project also never took place. The actress says that he did not allow her to leave the house without his permission, pursued her around the apartment with an ax, cut her with a “Nazi knife” without her consent, took pictures of the cuts and posted pictures on the Internet, also without her consent.
As a result, she still deals with complex PTSD, anxiety, depression and panic attacks, Bianco's lawyers say. The actress became one of several women to press charges after actor Evan Rachel Wood confessed that Manson had sexually, physically and emotionally abused her during their relationship. At the time, Manson's record label and agents refused to work with him.