Girl who claims Marilyn Manson subjected her to “horrific” abuse speaks publicly for first time

A girl who claims Marilyn Manson subjected her to “horrific” abuse as a minor within the ’90s has spoken publicly for the primary time.

Bianca Allaine Kyne launched a press release yesterday (July 15) saying she felt “empowered” to step ahead along with her full identification.

“Not a anonymous sufferer, I stand earlier than you as Bianca Allaine Kyne, a survivor. At this time, I reclaim my voice, a voice stolen for much too lengthy,” she mentioned in a brand new assertion launched by her lawyer, Jeff Anderson to Rolling Stone.

Kyne claims Manson, whose authorized identify is Brian Warner, subjected her to “horrific” abuse in New Orleans in 1995, when she was 16-years-old, then once more in 1999 on Lengthy Island and in upstate New York.

She added: “Warner exploited his energy and twisted affect to coerce me into his darkish wishes. The younger lady he groomed in Louisiana grew to become a sufferer of his perversion in New York.”

Kyne continued: “For years, I lived beneath his shadow, paralysed by concern. However that concern not controls me. It has been changed by an unwavering pursuit of justice. I stand tall, unafraid. This isn’t nearly my private story. That is about exposing an business that prioritises revenue over the security of susceptible younger ladies.”

Warner’s lawyer, Howard King, denied the allegations and mentioned the claims are “vicious lies” that quantity to a “shakedown” of his consumer.

He advised Rolling Stone: “Brian Warner doesn’t know this particular person and has no recollection of ever having met her 28 years in the past. He definitely was by no means intimate along with her. She has been procuring her fabricated story to tabloids and on podcasts for greater than three years. However even probably the most minimal quantity of scrutiny reveals the plain discrepancies in her ever-shifting tales in addition to her intensive collusion with different false accusers.”

NME has contacted King for additional remark.

Kyne first filed a lawsuit as a Jane Doe towards Manson in January 2023. She alleged on the time that the musician manipulated her into becoming a member of him on a tour bus after a live performance in New Orleans in December 1995, when she was nonetheless 16. She then claims he “carried out numerous acts of prison sexual conduct”.

She alleged Warner later “coerced” her into intercourse in Uniondale and Buffalo in New York simply days aside in April 1999, after she turned 18.

Warner filed a movement to dismiss the New York lawsuit on Might 22 final yr, in keeping with Rolling Stone and final December, Kyne voluntarily moved her New Orleans-based sexual assault claims case to a separate lawsuit in Louisiana.

Earlier this month, the decide overseeing the New York case accredited the elimination of the 1995 Louisiana claims to New Orleans whereas denying Manson’s try and strike Kyne’s “intentional infliction of emotional misery” declare referring to her alleged 1999 assaults.

However the decide got here down on Manson’s aspect when he dominated that Kyne should take away all point out of her alleged grooming and sexual abuse as a minor from the “Factual Background” part of her New York criticism and strike any paragraphs associated to creative drawings she composed as a minor and allegedly confirmed to the musician.

Manson reportedly didn’t try and dismiss Kyne’s sexual battery claims associated to the alleged assaults in 1999.

It comes after a raft of sexual abuse allegations had been levelled towards Manson in February 2021, together with by his ex-fiancee Evan Rachel Wooden, who made allegations of rape, torture, and threats. Separate claims of abuse from greater than 12 ladies have additionally been made.

Quite a few lawsuits have ensued since, with Manson constantly denying the allegations.

Different accusers embody Recreation of Thrones actress and former girlfriend Esme Bianco and ex-girlfriend Ashley Morgan Smithline. The lawsuit filed by Smithline has since been dismissed, whereas Manson denied Bianco’s claims as “meritless” and settled along with her in January 2023.

He was additionally accused by somebody solely referred to as Jane Doe in September 2023 – nevertheless, her case was settled every week forward of happening trial.

Elsewhere final December, his former assistant Ashley Walters gained a crucial enchantment that revived her case which was initially dismissed in 2022. He’s set to face a lawsuit filed by Walters in a Los Angeles courtroom in June 2025.

In the meantime, Manson signed a brand new file take care of impartial metallic file label Nuclear Blast in Might this yr.