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Game of Thrones actor Esme Bianco filed a lawsuit against US goth rocker Marilyn Manson on Friday setting out graphic allegations of rape, sexual abuse, and violence.
According to the papers filed at a California court, Bianco was twice invited to Los Angeles by Manson – real name Brian Warner – with the promise of paid work, only to be subjected to acts of sexual violence including being cut, whipped, and electrocuted without her consent.
“Mr. Warner raped Ms. Bianco in or around May 2011,” the lawsuit alleges.
“Mr. Warner committed sexual acts with Ms. Bianco when she was unconscious or otherwise unable to consent” and “also committed sexual battery against Ms. Bianco on multiple occasions,” it says.
The British 38-year-old said in a statement Friday she had spoken out to stop Manson “from shattering any more lives and empower other victims to seek their own small measure of justice.”
According to Bianco’s lawsuit, she first visited Manson in Los Angeles in 2009 for what she understood to be a music video shoot.
Over four days, she was allegedly deprived of sleep, given drugs and alcohol without food, and “physically beaten by Mr. Warner,” including with a whip he told her “was utilized by the Nazis.”
Later that year, he visited her in London and they began a consensual relationship, the papers state.
In 2011, Bianco moved to Los Angeles and was told she would star in a feature film called Phantasmagoria with Manson before spending two and a half months “enduring constant abuse” under the threat of her visa process being damaged, the lawsuit alleges.
Manson, who has long cultivated a controversial image with his ghostly make-up and stage name evoking serial killer Charles Manson, has parted ways with Ciulla, as well as recordLoma Vista Recordings and Hollywood agency CAA since the allegations became public.
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