Marilyn Manson Accuser Breaks Silence: ‘Fear No Longer Controls Me’
A woman who claims Marilyn Manson groomed and sexually assaulted her multiple times in the 1990s – starting when she was still a minor – is speaking publicly for the first time. In a new statement released Monday, the woman says she felt “empowered” to step forward with her full identity after a recent ruling in one of her two lawsuits against the shock rocker filed in New York and Louisiana.
“No longer a nameless victim, I stand before you as Bianca Allaine Kyne, a survivor. Today, I reclaim my voice, a voice stolen for far too long,” Kyne says in her new statement released by her lawyer, Jeff Anderson. Kyne says Manson, whose legal name is Brian Warner, subjected her to “horrific” abuse in New Orleans in 1995, when she was 16 years old, and again in 1999 on Long Island and in upstate New York. “Warner exploited his power and twisted influence to coerce me into his dark desires,” she says. “The young girl he groomed in Louisiana became a victim of his perversion in New York.”
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Warner’s lawyer, Howard King, says Kyne’s allegations are “vicious lies” that amount to a “shakedown” of his client. “Bryan Warner does not know this individual and has no recollection of ever having met her 28 years ago,” King tells Rolling Stone. “He certainly was never intimate with her. She has been shopping her fabricated tale to tabloids and on podcasts for more than three years. But even the most minimal amount of scrutiny reveals the obvious discrepancies in her ever-shifting stories as well as her extensive collusion with other false accusers.”
Kyne, 44, first sued Warner in Nassau County, N.Y., as a Jane Doe in January 2023. She alleged Warner used his celebrity and power as an adult to manipulate her into joining him on a tour bus after a concert in New Orleans in December 1995, when she was still 16. She claimed Warner complimented her artwork and then began kissing her, “biting her breast” and subjecting her to “oral copulation and penetration.” She alleged Warner later “coerced” her into sex in Uniondale and Buffalo, N.Y., just days apart in April 1999, after she turned 18.
Warner filed a motion to dismiss the New York lawsuit on May 22, 2023. Last December, Kyne voluntarily moved her lawsuit’s New Orleans-based childhood sexual assault claims to a separate lawsuit in Louisiana. Earlier this month, on July 5, the judge overseeing the New York case rubber stamped the removal of the 1995 Louisiana claims to New Orleans while denying Warner’s attempt to strike Kyne’s “intentional infliction of emotional distress” claim related to her alleged 1999 assaults. In a mixed decision, the judge sided with Warner when he further ruled that Kyne must remove all mention of her alleged grooming and sexual abuse as a minor from the “Factual Background” section of her New York complaint and strike any paragraphs related to the artistic drawings she composed as a minor and allegedly showed to Warner. (Warner did not attempt to dismiss Kyne’s sexual battery claims related to the alleged assaults in 1999.)
“For years, I lived under his shadow, paralyzed by fear. But that fear no longer controls me. It has been replaced by an unwavering pursuit of justice. I stand tall, unafraid,” Kyne says in her new statement. “This is not just about my personal story. This is about exposing an industry that prioritizes profit over the safety of vulnerable young women.” (Kyne’s lawsuits also include negligence claims against Interscope and Nothing Records, who released Warner’s music.)
Warner, 55, has denied claims of sexual abuse from more than a dozen women. Last September, he reached a private settlement with a Jane Doe accuser who alleged he brutally raped her in 2011. The Doe accuser further alleged that Warner also deprived her of food and sleep during their relationship and that he threatened to “bash her head in” if she reported him.
The September deal followed after Warner reached a separate settlement with Game of Thrones star Esmé Bianco in January 2023. Bianco had alleged Warner raped and battered her. Former accuser Ashley Morgan Smithline let her lawsuit end in default last year and formally recanted her allegations against Warner.
Warner’s former assistant Ashley Walters sued Warner in 2021 and recently received a June 2025 trial date. Walters, an artist who worked for Warner for what she calls a “horrific” year that ended in 2011, alleges Warner whipped her, threw plates at her and sexually assaulted her.
Meanwhile, a photographer who claims Warner caused her “fear and anxiety” when he spit and blew his nose on her at a 2019 concert in New Hampshire is asking a Los Angeles judge to reconsider a second dismissal of her case last January, citing “inadvertence or mistake” by her lawyer, who missed a hearing. The lawsuit from photographer Susan Fountain has a hearing set for next month.
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