Ashley Walters, a former personalized assistant to Marilyn Manson, has sued the disgraced musician for sexual intercourse discrimination, sexual harassment, sexual assault, sexual battery, intentional infliction of psychological distress and other transgressions.
She also corroborated some of the abuse allegations leveled formerly by other women, which includes Manson’s ex-girlfriends Evan Rachel Wooden and Esmé Bianco.
In a legal criticism submitted Tuesday in L.A. County Remarkable Court, Walters accused the “Beautiful People” singer of leveraging his “position of power, superstar and connections to exploit and victimize” her throughout her work from 2010 to 2011.
Walters is trying to get financial payment for the damages incurred, as properly as a demo by jury for Manson’s alleged crimes. Furthermore, she requested that Manson, whose actual title is Brian Warner, entire anti-sexual harassment and anti-sexual violence teaching, as well as prevent utilizing her private documents, her knowledge and illustrations or photos he photographed of her.
“Ashley … designed the complicated but courageous determination to arrive forward about this horrific knowledge,” attorneys for Walters said Tuesday in a statement presented to the Los Angeles Periods.
“Through this lawsuit, she seeks accountability from her abuser to not only assure it does not keep on to take place to other women of all ages, but also to supply power and courage to other survivors who have experienced trauma at the hands of those who on a regular basis abuse their electricity and affect.”
When attained Tuesday by The Occasions, a member of Manson’s team “vehemently denied” all allegations of assault.
In accordance to the lawsuit, Manson “set out to groom” Walters immediately after finding her on social media, complimenting her pictures and “dangling experienced chances … in purchase to manipulate and exploit her to the point that she was handled like residence.” He later on hired her as his personalized assistant in 2010.
The paperwork define a sample of physical and psychological abuse in which Manson allegedly consistently assaulted Walters ahead of showering her with praise — leaving Walters “both happy that [Manson] was very pleased of her operate and extremely traumatized by what transpired.”
During their very first in-individual interaction, Walters alleges that Manson asked her to take away her shirt for a picture shoot right before pinning her onto his bed and forcing himself on her in his West Hollywood residence. When she tried using to get absent, Manson allegedly bit her ear and put her hand inside of his underwear.
The complaint also alleges that Manson built inappropriate comments — this sort of as remarking that he “loved when women appeared like they had just been raped” and “had gotten away with raping women” — painted her nipples underneath the pretense of professionalism, shoved her up from a wall and “roughly shoved” his tongue into her mouth during a new music video shoot, and regularly “offered [Walters] up” sexually to his pals and colleagues without having her consent.
Just one graphic anecdote integrated in the lawsuit alleges that Manson repeatedly confirmed Walters a online video of himself violently torturing an underage woman lover by aiming a gun at her, as well as “stripping her down and whipping her until eventually she screamed and cried.”
To intimidate them into keeping silent, the criticism alleges that Manson compelled Walters and other staff to pose for incriminating images with Nazi paraphernalia, as perfectly as broke into their desktops in search of product he could perhaps use to blackmail them.
The fit also backs related allegations built by actors Wood and Bianco, who lately participated in a support team with Walters that the lawsuit suggests “revealed a popular thread of … horrific abusive conduct.” In accordance to Walters, intimate associates of Manson feared the recording artist and “often hid in the visitor bathroom” to escape him.
On extra than just one occasion, Walters “snuck meals and drinks into the guest bathroom” to both Wooden or Bianco, who ended up both “afraid to depart the home,” the documents allege. The two actors ended up Manson’s girlfriends at different instances.
In addition to his alleged sexual misconduct, Walters also accused Manson of routinely forcing her to remain awake for 48 hours straight and feeding her cocaine to maintain her from slipping asleep just before he sooner or later fired her in 2011.
“During her work, [Manson] lured [Walters], an aspiring photographer at the time, into work with claims of inventive collaborations and inventive chances,” the lawsuit reads.
“[H]owever, the fact was that he was looking to create an surroundings the place [Walters] was subjected to personalized and professional sexual exploitation, manipulation and psychological abuse.”
Manson was dropped by his agent and his file label in early February soon after “Westworld” actor Wooden created her allegations general public via an Instagram submit. “He began grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for decades,” she wrote. “I was brainwashed and manipulated into submission. I am accomplished living in worry of retaliation, slander, or blackmail.”
Tony Ciulla, Manson’s supervisor of 25 decades, dropped the performer days afterwards, per Rolling Stone, and in mid-February the L.A. County Sheriff’s Office reported it experienced launched a criminal investigation into alleged domestic abuse by the singer.
“Game of Thrones” actress Bianco filed a lawsuit towards the musician and his former supervisor in late April. An attorney for Ciulla has denied Bianco’s allegations towards both of those him and Manson, calling them “provably bogus.”
