Marilyn Manson's accuser Esmé Bianco criticizes the prosecution's handling of the sexual abuse case after new evidence emerged

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced that prosecutors are reviewing new evidence in the sexual abuse investigation against Marilyn Manson, two years after authorities first announced they were investigating allegations against the musician.

A statement from Gascón's office said prosecutors are “carefully reviewing new leads” and that it would be “inappropriate” for the district attorney to meet in person with potential victims involved in an ongoing investigation.

No charges were filed in the case. A lawyer for Manson, 55, whose birth name is Brian Hugh Warner, did not respond to a request for comment.

“We expect to make a decision on the filing soon and will provide an update in due course,” the prosecutor’s statement said.

“Game of Thrones” actress Esmé Bianco, who previously brought allegations of abuse against Manson, appeared at a news conference Thursday with Nathan Hochman, Gascón's opponent in the contentious race for district attorney in Los Angeles County. She criticized Gascón's handling of the case, saying he had dodged her requests for two years.

“We’re all still waiting for answers,” she told reporters outside the district attorney’s office in downtown L.A.

Manson has repeatedly denied allegations of sexual assault and abuse made against him at least 16 women.

In 2018, prosecutors under then-Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey declined to file charges against him in connection with a 2011 allegation The statute of limitations had expired and there was “no confirmation.” Manson's lawyer, Howard King, told The Hollywood Reporter it was “no surprise” that prosecutors did not pursue the case, saying a woman “fraudulently claimed she was held captive by Mr. Warner for 48 hours in 2011.”

In September 2022, the LA County Sheriff's Department announced that it had opened a 19-month investigation into Manson and would be transferring the case to the District Attorney's Office for consideration of charges.

Detectives raided Manson's home in the Hollywood area Months earlier, he was investigating allegations from 2009 to 2011 when he lived in West Hollywood, a Sheriff's Department statement said.

“During the search, investigators seized items such as media storage devices,” the Sheriff’s Department statement dated November 30, 2021 said.

Bianco said Thursday that she provided prosecutors with evidence related to the case, including photos of her body “covered in bites, bruises and knife wounds” as part of what she described as “hundreds of pieces of evidence.”

“Almost four years ago, I did what rape victims are supposed to do: I went to the police,” Bianco said at a rally for Hochman, where activists and current and former prosecutors from the state attorney general’s office also spoke about other cases.

“I described to them in excruciating detail how rock musician Brian Warner – better known by his stage name Marilyn Manson – had raped and abused me over the course of our relationship,” she said.

Manson settled a legal dispute Bianco filed a lawsuit against him last year but has consistently denied allegations made by several women.

Bianco said she has received death threats since the investigation was announced in 2022, but did not say from whom.

“We were shamed, blamed, silenced and retraumatized while doing what we were told: report to law enforcement,” she said, her voice breaking.

The high-profile district attorney race put the investigation in the spotlight after both Manson's accuser and the musician filed two years of lawsuits against them. Among the accusers is actress Evan Rachel Wood, who accused the musician has influenced her since she was 19 years old and abused her for years.

He denied the claims and sued her.

In 2022, a former assistant filed a lawsuit accusing the musician of sexual harassment and assault dismissed by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge. Last year, a federal judge in LA dismissed another lawsuit against Manson filed by a model accused him of rape.