Game of Thrones actress Esme Bianco tells GMA that Marilyn Manson wanted to ‘rape her and murder other women’, kept their home cold at 62F with blacked out windows and forced her to wear heels, lingerie and stockings
- Bianco, 38, on Thursday became the first of the singer’s accusers to air her allegations on camera, telling GMA: ‘I thought, he’s going to kill me’
- She told the network Manson would keep their apartment cold and dark
- She also said Manson would tell her he wanted to ‘murder other women’ and ‘sneak down to the room where I was sleeping and rape me’ in text messages
- He made her dress in heels, lingerie and stockings, she alleges, and would show her off to his entourage ‘pulling up her dress to show bruises that he’d given her’
- Bianco joins at least 11 other women who have come forward to accuse Manson of abuse; her lawyer says she has been interviewed by the FBI over the matter
- Manson last week vehemently denied earlier abuse allegations
Game of Thrones actress Esme Bianco says Marilyn Manson told her he wanted to rape her and murder other women in text messages sent during their relationship.
Bianco, 38, on Thursday became the first of the singer’s accusers to air her allegations on camera, telling GMA: ‘I thought, he’s going to kill me.’
She told the network Manson would keep their apartment cold at 62 degrees and dark with blacked out windows, describing one incident where she says she was kept in his home for three days.
The actress said: ‘I was given nothing to eat, he gave me drugs and alcohol, and I essentially was not allowed to leave.’
She said Manson would tell her he wanted to ‘murder other women’ and ‘sneak down to the room where I was sleeping and rape me’ in text messages.
He also made her dress in heels, lingerie and stockings, she alleges, and would show her off to his entourage ‘pulling up her dress to show them bruises that he’d given her’.
Bianco joins at least 11 other women who have come forward this month to accuse Manson of physical and sexual abuse. She says she was interviewed by the FBI last month over claims; the FBI has not confirmed or denied any active investigation.
A lawyer for Manson did not return GMA’s request for comment about Bianco’s claims. Last week the singer vehemently denied earlier abuse allegations levied against him, calling them ‘horrible distortions of reality’.
Game of Thrones actress Esme Bianco says Marilyn Manson told her he wanted to rape her and murder other women in text messages sent during their relationship
Bianco, 38, on Thursday became the first of the singer’s accusers to air her allegations on camera, telling GMA : ‘I thought, he’s going to kill me’
Bianco also told of how Manson humiliated her by playing her sex scenes from Game of Thrones in front of his entourage. One source recalled Manson saying: ‘That’s my girlfriend, she’s a wh**e. Look, her t*ts are out.’
The British actress, who is best known for playing a sex worker named Ros in the early seasons of Game Of Thrones, had already told The Cut Manson, 52, cut her repeatedly with a knife, chased her with an ax and treated her ‘like a prisoner’.
On Thursday she repeated those claims added: ‘I tried to calm him down, and then he started chasing me with the ax. At that point, I thought, he’s going to kill me.’
Bianco says the ax incident was sparked after Manson accused her of putting cockroaches in his wall to ‘mess with him’.
It was after that alleged incident she says she left the home while he slept.
She said of other alleged incidents: ‘He locked me in his bedroom, tied me to a wooden prayer kneeler. I was half naked, and he would beat me with a whip.
‘The biting, that was 100% non-consensual. And he would bite me till I was black and blue.’
Asked why she stayed with Manson, Bianco said the singer made her believe they had a ‘special kind of relationship’ and ‘would find a way of getting his claws back into me’ every time she tried to break away.
She added: ‘It’s not until [you know] what psychological abuse and gaslighting does to somebody that you can fathom why I would have stayed.
‘I’ve been carrying this dark secret for so long. At the same time, it’s terrifying. I’m still scared of him. I’m still scared of blackmail, of threats.’
Bianco says her relationship with Manson, whose real name is Brian Hugh Warner, began about 12 years ago in 2009, while she was married to another man.
The two had met in 2005 through Manson’s then fiancée Dita Von Teese, whom Bianco knew because they were both Burlesque dancers.
Bianco told GMA: ‘I was coerced, I was defrauded, I was transported from the U.K. to the U.S., I was harbored, and then I was coerced into involuntarily servitude, which included sexual abuse and physical abuse.’
Her lawyer, Jay Ellwanger, likened her experience to ‘human trafficking’.
Bianco added: ‘I wish I had known what I know now…that you can be trafficked by an intimate partner.’
Bianco said Manson would tell her he wanted to ‘murder other women’ and ‘sneak down to the room where I was sleeping and rape me’ in text messages. He also made her dress in heels, lingerie and stockings, she alleges, and would show her off to his entourage ‘pulling up her dress to show them bruises that he’d given her’
Bianco joins at least 11 other women who have come forward this month to accuse Manson of physical and sexual abuse. She says she was interviewed by the FBI last month over claims; the FBI has not confirmed or denied any active investigation.
Manson’s former personal assistant, Ashley Walters, told GMA she saw Manson chase Bianco with an ax and saw bruises on the actress’ body.
Bianco said she was star-struck by Manson, and visited the home he shared with Von Teese in Los Angeles multiple times before their marriage fell apart in 2007.
After Von Teese and Manson split, he kept in touch with Bianco, who got married herself in 2008.
Bianco said her relationship with Manson was flirty but platonic up until 2009, when he asked her to star in the music video for his song I Want to Kill You Like They Do In The Movies.
Bianco identified herself as an abuse survivor publicly for the first time in 2019 when she testified in front of the California Assembly about reforming domestic violence laws
Manson explained the premise of the video in emails reviewed by The Cut, saying that it would involve him ‘kidnapping’ her.
‘I need to have a victim/lover,’ he wrote. ‘You are gonna have to pretend to like being manhandled by me. Sorry.’
Bianco, then 26, agreed to the role and flew to Los Angeles, where she said she spent three days with Manson, wearing only lingerie and consuming cocaine instead of food.
Manson recorded the video on a flip phone, Bianco said. She recalled how her perception of what was real and what was acting dissolved as Manson lost his temper and became violent with her.
She said he tied her up with cables and lashed her with a whip before pressing a vibrating sex toy into her wounds.
Bianco said she was terrified but justified Manson’s behavior by telling herself: ‘It’s just Manson being theatrical. We are going to make great art.’
Manson never ended up released the music video, and Bianco said he refused to show her any of the footage.
The pair had a long-distance affair for about two years before he asked her to move to Los Angeles to live with him in March 2011, Bianco said. She obliged, leaving her home in London and troubled marriage behind for Manson’s West Hollywood apartment.
There was a brief honeymoon period, Bianco said, before Manson devolved into a tyrant who controlled her every move – telling her what to wear, when to sleep and where she could go.
One of her most disturbing memories was a time when she said Manson repeatedly cut her torso with a knife.
‘I just remember laying there, and I didn’t fight it,’ she said. ‘It was kind of this final-straw moment where I had lost all sense of hope and safety.’
Evan Rachel Wood (pictured) was among the first to publicly accuse Manson of abuse in an Instagram post on February 2 where she claimed he starting ‘grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years’
Wood first named her alleged abuser on social media February 1 (above)
Bianco said she reached her breaking point in May 2011 after Manson chased her around the apartment with an ax. Walters, Manson’s personal assistant at the time, told The Cut that she witnessed that incident.
Bianco said she began looking for her own apartment in secret and then fled from Manson’s home while he was sleeping one day in June.
Eight years later, Bianco identified herself as an abuse survivor publicly for the first time in 2019 when she testified in front of the California Assembly about reforming domestic violence laws.
She said she took up the cause after hearing fellow actress Evan Rachel Wood testify before Congress in 2018 about the abuse she claimed to have experienced at Manson’s hands – without naming him directly.
Wood also reposted allegations against Manson from four other women who accused him of rape and sexual and psychological abuse, as well as druggings, intimidation, violence and death threats.
Manson defended himself from allegations by Wood and others in a statement on February 1.
‘Obviously, my life and my art have long been magnets for controversy, but these recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality,’ he said.
‘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.’
Industry insiders have sought to distance themselves from the controversial rocker with his record label, talent agency and long-time manager Tony Ciulla all dropping him.
Game of Thrones actress Esme Bianco has accused Marilyn Manson (pictured together in 2009) of cutting her repeatedly with a knife, chasing her with an ax and treating her ‘like a prisoner’ when they lived together for about two months in 2011
Bianco and Manson are pictured together at the XFM Rock Show in London in 2009 – the same year she said their affair began after she agreed to be in one of his music videos
The latest avalanche of allegations against Manson kicked off on February 1 when Wood shared her Instagram post about Manson, whom she started dating in 2007, when she was 19. They got engaged before breaking up in 2010.
In her post, Wood said she had been ‘brainwashed and manipulated’ by Manson and spent years living in fear of ‘retaliation, slander, or blackmail’.
Manson’s ex-wife Von Teese addressed the allegations leveled at Manson in a statement on Instagram last week.
In it, the 48-year-old burlesque star said she had been ‘processing the news’ about her ex, who she dated for six years before they tied the knot in 2005.
Von Teese insisted the experiences detailed by Manson’s alleged victims ‘do not match’ her own experience with the rock star.
‘Please know that the details made public do not match my personal experience during our 7 years together as a couple,’ she wrote.
‘Had they, I would not have married him in December 2005.’
No investigation has been launched and Manson has never been arrested for any of the women’s allegations.
LAPD cops were called to Manson’s Hollywood Hills home over concerns for his safety on the night of February 3 amid the growing number of allegations against him.
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