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“Game Of Thrones” Actress Esmé Bianco Accuses Marilyn Manson Of Abuse And Human Trafficking

Actress Esmé Bianco (“Game Of Thrones”) is the latest woman to come forward with abuse allegations against Marilyn Manson. She said the following in a post on Instagram:

“I am naming the person who abused and human trafficked me. His name is Marilyn Manson, born Brian Hugh Warner. I am coming forward after years of living with the unthinkable trauma I endured at the hands of the serial predator known to many as Marilyn Manson. I am speaking up now, in my own way, and sharing this story with others because he must be held accountable. No one should ever go through what I – and so many other survivors – have experienced. It’s important that we all understand that people can be abused and trafficked by intimate partners, boyfriends, and husbands. We must address the misconceptions around human trafficking because it can happen to anyone like it happened to me.”

Bianco also shared more disturbing details during an interview with The Cut. Here’s an excerpt from that piece:

“Their dynamic changed in 2009, after Manson sent Bianco a plane ticket from her home in London to L.A. so she could star in the music video for his song “I Want to Kill You Like They Do in the Movies.” He explained that it would be shot on a flip camera for a home-video feel and would involve Manson “kidnapping” Bianco in his home. “I need to have a victim/lover,” he wrote in an email. Bianco believed that the job would be strictly professional. ‘You are gonna have to pretend to like being manhandled by me. Sorry,’ Manson emailed her a few days before the shoot. Once she arrived, she says, the line between art and reality immediately blurred. Bianco, who was 26 at the time, says she spent the next three days in lingerie, barely sleeping or eating, with Manson serving up cocaine rather than food. She remembers him losing his temper and throwing the camera at a smoke alarm. Soon, she says, he became violent, tying her with cables to a prayer kneeler, lashing her with a whip, and using an electric sex toy called a Violet Wand on her wounds — the same kind of ‘torture device’ Wood has said was used on her. Bianco was terrified but tried to calm down by telling herself, It’s just Manson being theatrical. ‘We are going to make great art.’

While waiting for her flight back home, Bianco sobbed. She felt sad to leave Manson and considered her wounds to be proof of their bond. On some level, she knew what had happened wasn’t BDSM; she says they hadn’t discussed consent or safe words, which she knew from both personal experience and the fetish performers in her circle were crucial for safe power dynamics. A few days after the shoot, Manson emailed Bianco a picture of her back covered in welts with a note reading, ‘bringing sexy back.'”

The following was also added about her time living with Manson in 2011:

“He dictated what she could wear (she says he preferred her in a short pencil dress with stockings), her sleep schedule (‘I was often violently shaken awake should I go to sleep without permission,’ she told the California Assembly), and when she could come and go from the apartment (she says she didn’t have a key). One night in May, Manson sent Walters a text saying someone had broken a glass in the studio and that ‘Esme is gonna get the brunt of this. Don’t care.’

‘I basically felt like a prisoner,’ says Bianco. ‘I came and went at his pleasure. Who I spoke to was completely controlled by him. I called my family hiding in the closet.’

Bianco went on to say that Manson humiliated her, cut her torso with a knife, and chased her with an ax before she moved out and broke up with him through an email.

This news comes after multiple women, including actress Evan Rachel Wood (“Westworld”), recently accused Manson of abuse. The shock rocker has since been dropped by his label, manager, talent agency, and more. California State Senator Susan Rubio has also asked the FBI to launch an investigation into him. For his part, Manson previously claimed that the allegations were “horrible distortions of reality.”