Game of Thrones star Esmé Bianco claims she she spent the last four years in “absolute agony” waiting to find out if shock rocker Marilyn Manson will be charged over her claims that ‘he trafficked her, whipped her, repeatedly sexually assaulted her, and raped her at knifepoint’ during a two year relationship that ended in 2011.
British-born Bianco, who played Ros in the hit fantasy series, has demanded answers after she and several other women came forward with disturbing allegations of ‘physical and psychological abuse’ against Manson back in early 2021 — allegations Manson denies.
Around the same time, she had her first meeting with the FBI and sheriff investigators.
Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, was then the subject of a Special Victims Unit search warrant that involved a raid of his home in November 2021.
Bianco later gave a highly detailed, three-hour interview to prosecutors at the Hall of Justice in Los Angeles last January, and says she is willing to testify in front of a jury.
“What is the holdup? I’m doing all the things. It’s long overdue that Brian Warner sees the inside of a courtroom,” she said. “I would be ecstatic if he saw the inside of a jail, because that’s where he deserves to be, but whatever is coming, we’ll survive it. We’ve survived it this far.
“Once you’ve survived him, you could survive anything. If I have to walk through hell reliving it all over again, and it puts him behind bars, then that’s what I’ll do,” she told Rolling Stone in an exclusive interview.
“I don’t take issue with due process at all. I don’t take issue with a thorough investigation. I want them to do a thorough investigation because I know the truth, so I want them to do that.
“I want to make sure that if they bring charges against him, and if it goes to trial, that it’s an airtight case and they will win.
“The last thing I want is to see him go through a trial and get away with it. But there has to be a point at which you call ‘time,’ and you make an informed decision.
“Nearly four years is far beyond a reasonable amount of time to keep multiple survivors of a serial perpetrator waiting,” Bianco said.
In an emailed statement to Rolling Stone, the District Attorney’s Office wrote that trial lawyers and the Bureau of Victim Services have been in contact with the case’s known victims.
“We remain committed to making sure that they have been informed of our progress every step of the way,” read the statement.
Bianco said: “Almost four years ago, I did what victims of rape are ‘supposed’ to do — I went to the police.
“I described to them in agonising detail how the rock musician Brian Warner, better known by his stage name Marilyn Manson, raped and abused me over the course of our relationship.
“I presented to them hundreds of pieces of evidence, including photos of my body covered in bites, bruises and knife wounds, emails and text messages, threats to my immigration status.”
She claims Warner convinced her to move to Los Angeles in 2011 with the promise he would help her secure a visa and launch her Hollywood acting career.
After she arrived, she claims Warner became increasingly controlling and physically violent, as her lawsuit alleges.
“On one occasion, Mr. Warner chased [Bianco] around the apartment with an ax, smashing holes in the walls. On another occasion, Mr. Warner cut Ms. Bianco with a Nazi knife during sex, without her consent, and photographed the cuts on her body,” the lawsuit alleged.
Warner responded to the lawsuit through his lawyer, denying the allegations and claiming he was the victim of a “coordinated attack” by former partners.
His former finacée, Evan Rachel Wood, named Warner as her alleged abuser in an Instagram post in February 2021.
The post followed after Wood previously claimed she had been raped by an unidentified significant other and testified before the California State Senate in 2019 in support of legislation extending the statute of limitations for victims of domestic abuse.
“He started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years. I was brainwashed and manipulated into submission,” Wood wrote in her post, alleging the abuse started when she was 19 and Warner was 38, and ended in 2010.
Other women stepped forward with similar allegations that same month.
Bianco added: “While I have been waiting, I have received death threats to myself, my family, my friends. He is now back out on tour, and the first song he performed after near silence for four years was, ‘We Know Where You F***ing Live.’”
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