Marilyn Manson has reached a settlement with actor Esmé Bianco, who filed a lawsuit in April 2021 accusing the musician – real name Brian Warner – of sexual assault, sexual violence and human trafficking.
“Ms. Bianco has agreed to resolve her claims against Brian Warner and Marilyn Manson Records, Inc. in order to move on with her life and career,” Bianco’s attorney, Jay D. Ellwanger, said in a statement to The Times on Tuesday.
Manson’s attorney, Howard King, also confirmed the outcome of the lawsuit.
According to Rolling Stone, which announced the news of the settlement on Tuesday, the terms of the agreement remain unknown.
In her lawsuit, Bianco, 40, alleged that the singer, 54, raped and abused her while they were dating in 2011. She also claimed that Manson, her former manager Tony Ciulla and the management company de Ciulla had violated human trafficking laws by bringing Bianco from London to Los Angeles for roles in Manson’s film and music video projects that never materialized, all while Warner threatened and sexually abused him. the actress.
In 2021, Manson dismissed the allegations as “horrible distortions of reality”.
Bianco was among several women who came forward with serious allegations against Manson that year.
His former fiancée Evan Rachel Wood named Manson as her abuser in February 2021. She wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post that the singer “started treating me when I was a teenager and horribly abused me for years.” He also denied those allegations.
“Obviously my art and my life have long been magnets for controversy, but these recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality,” he said in an Instagram statement shortly after the claims. of Wood. “My intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual with like-minded partners. No matter how – and why – others now choose to twist the past, this is the truth.”
In light of the allegations, Manson was dropped by his record label and by the Creative Arts Agency.
Tuesday’s settlement came weeks after a judge dismissed model Ashley Morgan Smithline’s 2021 federal lawsuit against the singer. In the lawsuit, filed in June 2021, Smithline alleged that Manson repeatedly sexually assaulted her in 2010.
Times data and graphics reporter Aida Ylanan and writer Jonah Valdez contributed to this report.
This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.
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