Valentine's Day has long been a significant day for Marilyn Manson for many reasons, but this year it so happened that Marilyn Manson and his wife Lindsay celebrated Valentine's Day in Brno, Czech Republic while on his European tour. Earlier in the day, both Manson and Lindsay posted a series of photos for Valentine's Day. The photos of Manson were photographed by Lindsay, and one was captioned "They’d remember this as Valentine’s Day" (which Lindsay captioned as "Always") while the other said "Meet Me In Purgatory" (which Lindsay captioned as "within the fog and trees"). View this post on Instagram A post shared by Marilyn Manson (@marilynmanson) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lindsay Elizabeth Warner (@lindsayusichofficial) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Marilyn Manson (@marilynmanson) View this post on Instagram ...
III. EPISODE ONE (B)
Most media reports and reviews about this docuseries are features from the edited clips of the first two minutes, but now its time we explore the rest of Episode One. Here we have some exclusive clips from the early days of Marilyn Manson, and its supposed to be a brief overview of the rise of his career, but the story is primarily told to highlight the allegation that Manson sexually assaulted minors in the early days of his career.
It begins with an introduction of a woman named Jennifer Pavao, who is referred to as a fan of Marilyn Manson since she was around 15 years old when the band was just starting out in the early 1990's in Fort Lauderdale.
We are then introduced to Tim Vaughn, who is referred to as a musician and friend of Marilyn Manson. He played in a band called Prom Sluts and was part of the South Florida music scene that Marilyn Manson was a part of.
Stephen Bier is then introduced, sitting in a Brooklyn bar, and he is referred to as a former bandmate of Marilyn Manson. He was an original member of the band and played in Marilyn Manson until 2007 as the keyboardist, going by the stage name Madonna Wayne Gacy, or Pogo for short.
The immediate impression the docuseries is trying to push is that Marilyn Manson was as charismatic as any cult leader and someone who inappropriately played with themes of child abuse and sexuality. It is building up to the accusation that Manson raped minors, specifically Bianca Allaine Kyne, who currently has two lawsuits against Manson in New York and Louisiana, in which she claims she was sexually assaulted by Manson on his tour bus in 1995 after a concert in Texas when she was 16 years old, and groomed by him for years afterward. The three people introduced above are in this docuseries solely for the purpose of Bianca's testimony, which comes later in Episode One.
Jennifer Pavao is interviewed solely to push this theme of a teenage girl drawn to Manson's charisma, which she herself now compares to Charles Manson and the Manson Family, to the point where she attended dozens of his shows in the early 1990's, at least the shows where ALL AGES were allowed, since early on Manson did mostly club shows where you had to be at least over 18. She even shows us one of her lunchboxes he signed for her, which said: "To Jen, you cum guzzling gutter slut, Love, Marilyn". She says that Manson was always respectful to her, she never saw anything to corroborate the claims against Manson that he groomed and assaulted minors, but looking back as an adult, she sees what he wrote on her lunchbox was inappropriate and things that he said and did as kinda weird.
But isn't that how it's supposed to be? For teenage rebellion and rock and roll to thrive, you need those same teens who adored the rock stars of their youth to grow up and realize what they grew up on was inappropriate and now that they are adults things have become even more inappropriate for their own children, who will likewise adore the rock stars of their generation for them as parents to disapprove of. This is the rock and roll cycle.
But I question Jennifer's self-proclaimed total ignorance. Obviously you always understand things more clearly as an adult when you look back on your childhood, but at 15 or 16 you should have some sort of understanding. Attending dozens of Manson shows, especially the ones in the early 1990's, where his whole persona was built on being shocking and inappropriate (a common feature of the bands in the South Florida scene at the time), she must have at some point got the hint that the band was indeed inappropriate for youth, which is what was supposed to attract the youth in the first place and help Manson build a cult-like following of fans. She must have known that Manson existed to piss off parents, with merch that said things like "Kill God, Kill Your Mom & Dad, Kill Yourself", which played on his cult-figure persona of leading a bunch of brainwashed youth. This was a time when Manson was also appropriating the childhood characters he grew up with that were inappropriate in a hidden and sinister way and putting a spotlight on them with his own form of social commentary. What Willy Wonka did to children in his Chocolate Factory was inappropriate, what the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang did to children when he caught them was inappropriate, and the Cat from The Cat in the Hat was inappropriate because he was a mysterious stranger who entered a house of children, uninvited, while the mother was out and he entertained children with tricks, and telling the kids to keep it all a secret from the mother. By putting a spotlight on these characters, Manson was making himself reflect for his audience what they all grew up on as childhood entertainment, but seen for what it really was - it was inappropriate and dark and creepy -, and to highlight how inappropriate it was, he combined these characters into his persona to what was perceived as something of a child predator luring children with his tricks (the shocking acts of his stage show), since teenagers are the prime target audience for rebellious music if you want to break into the mainstream.
When Manson was a child in a fundamentalist Christian elementary school, he was told not to listen to rock music because it was inappropriate, and the bands with a cult-like following of his childhood like KISS and Alice Cooper and David Bowie lured teenagers either with shock, sexuality, violence or anything that was considered inappropriate by adults for children. Rock and Roll was built on the foundation of being viewed as inappropriate for children by adults. How many parents were scared when the Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show with long hair and were worried their sons may emulate them, which made the Beatles even more popular? Manson understood this early on, and made it part of his stage persona, like some of his favorite rock stars before him, who all had a cult-like following of teens that were misunderstood by their parents. As an adult in his early 20's, Marilyn Manson was likewise seeing all these things from his childhood and even the talk shows of his time as inappropriate for youth, and reselling it to youth in a way where it was supposed to be viewed as inappropriate, so much so that it was obvious and ridiculous, which is why Manson had no problem selling t-shirts that said "Kill God, Kill Your Mom & Dad, Kill Yourself". Whereas in the past it was more hidden within pop culture, Manson was shining a light on it to reflect back on America and make America see itself through him as in a mirror. This is essentially what Manson was explaining in his many interviews from this time period, as well as in his autobiography later on. If Jennifer thought Marilyn Manson was an innocent child-friendly early 1990's pop band that did nothing inappropriate, then she just wasn't paying attention. But even pop bands at the time did the same thing but in different ways, and still do. New Kids on the Block, for example, were just like Marilyn Manson in the early 1990's, trying to lure young teenage fans into their cult-like fan base to help them rise to the top. The only difference between Marilyn Manson and New Kids on the Block was that Manson was honest about what he was doing and those who payed attention knew it.
At one point Jennifer talks about going to a graveyard when she was around 15 or 16 with some friends and of their own will took some photos to send to Manson, which she described as "inappropriate photos with the Jesus statue" using sex toys and dressed in their bras and underwear. Manson never asked for these photos, but these "lunch box girls" as they called themselves did this to show Manson, though we never hear about Manson's reaction. At the time she took those photos, however, she must have thought it was inappropriate to do these blasphemous things to a statue of Jesus, and she and her friends probably did them because they were inappropriate and they wanted to show Manson how inappropriate they could be. As an adult today she may regret doing what she did, but she also has to take personal responsibility for her actions.
Jennifer Pavao is interviewed solely to push this theme of a teenage girl drawn to Manson's charisma, which she herself now compares to Charles Manson and the Manson Family, to the point where she attended dozens of his shows in the early 1990's, at least the shows where ALL AGES were allowed, since early on Manson did mostly club shows where you had to be at least over 18. She even shows us one of her lunchboxes he signed for her, which said: "To Jen, you cum guzzling gutter slut, Love, Marilyn". She says that Manson was always respectful to her, she never saw anything to corroborate the claims against Manson that he groomed and assaulted minors, but looking back as an adult, she sees what he wrote on her lunchbox was inappropriate and things that he said and did as kinda weird.
But isn't that how it's supposed to be? For teenage rebellion and rock and roll to thrive, you need those same teens who adored the rock stars of their youth to grow up and realize what they grew up on was inappropriate and now that they are adults things have become even more inappropriate for their own children, who will likewise adore the rock stars of their generation for them as parents to disapprove of. This is the rock and roll cycle.
But I question Jennifer's self-proclaimed total ignorance. Obviously you always understand things more clearly as an adult when you look back on your childhood, but at 15 or 16 you should have some sort of understanding. Attending dozens of Manson shows, especially the ones in the early 1990's, where his whole persona was built on being shocking and inappropriate (a common feature of the bands in the South Florida scene at the time), she must have at some point got the hint that the band was indeed inappropriate for youth, which is what was supposed to attract the youth in the first place and help Manson build a cult-like following of fans. She must have known that Manson existed to piss off parents, with merch that said things like "Kill God, Kill Your Mom & Dad, Kill Yourself", which played on his cult-figure persona of leading a bunch of brainwashed youth. This was a time when Manson was also appropriating the childhood characters he grew up with that were inappropriate in a hidden and sinister way and putting a spotlight on them with his own form of social commentary. What Willy Wonka did to children in his Chocolate Factory was inappropriate, what the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang did to children when he caught them was inappropriate, and the Cat from The Cat in the Hat was inappropriate because he was a mysterious stranger who entered a house of children, uninvited, while the mother was out and he entertained children with tricks, and telling the kids to keep it all a secret from the mother. By putting a spotlight on these characters, Manson was making himself reflect for his audience what they all grew up on as childhood entertainment, but seen for what it really was - it was inappropriate and dark and creepy -, and to highlight how inappropriate it was, he combined these characters into his persona to what was perceived as something of a child predator luring children with his tricks (the shocking acts of his stage show), since teenagers are the prime target audience for rebellious music if you want to break into the mainstream.
When Manson was a child in a fundamentalist Christian elementary school, he was told not to listen to rock music because it was inappropriate, and the bands with a cult-like following of his childhood like KISS and Alice Cooper and David Bowie lured teenagers either with shock, sexuality, violence or anything that was considered inappropriate by adults for children. Rock and Roll was built on the foundation of being viewed as inappropriate for children by adults. How many parents were scared when the Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show with long hair and were worried their sons may emulate them, which made the Beatles even more popular? Manson understood this early on, and made it part of his stage persona, like some of his favorite rock stars before him, who all had a cult-like following of teens that were misunderstood by their parents. As an adult in his early 20's, Marilyn Manson was likewise seeing all these things from his childhood and even the talk shows of his time as inappropriate for youth, and reselling it to youth in a way where it was supposed to be viewed as inappropriate, so much so that it was obvious and ridiculous, which is why Manson had no problem selling t-shirts that said "Kill God, Kill Your Mom & Dad, Kill Yourself". Whereas in the past it was more hidden within pop culture, Manson was shining a light on it to reflect back on America and make America see itself through him as in a mirror. This is essentially what Manson was explaining in his many interviews from this time period, as well as in his autobiography later on. If Jennifer thought Marilyn Manson was an innocent child-friendly early 1990's pop band that did nothing inappropriate, then she just wasn't paying attention. But even pop bands at the time did the same thing but in different ways, and still do. New Kids on the Block, for example, were just like Marilyn Manson in the early 1990's, trying to lure young teenage fans into their cult-like fan base to help them rise to the top. The only difference between Marilyn Manson and New Kids on the Block was that Manson was honest about what he was doing and those who payed attention knew it.
At one point Jennifer talks about going to a graveyard when she was around 15 or 16 with some friends and of their own will took some photos to send to Manson, which she described as "inappropriate photos with the Jesus statue" using sex toys and dressed in their bras and underwear. Manson never asked for these photos, but these "lunch box girls" as they called themselves did this to show Manson, though we never hear about Manson's reaction. At the time she took those photos, however, she must have thought it was inappropriate to do these blasphemous things to a statue of Jesus, and she and her friends probably did them because they were inappropriate and they wanted to show Manson how inappropriate they could be. As an adult today she may regret doing what she did, but she also has to take personal responsibility for her actions.
All the stories Jennifer shares are the same: everyone was being inappropriate in their younger years and now she is interpreting those actions as an adult. Essentially it shows nothing and proves nothing, unless you are trying to twist it all and fit it into a narrative that behind minor improprieties there were more sinister things going on. But as she repeats over and over again, she never saw anything sinister behind the scenes nor experienced it. Manson just comes off as pretty normal for a young rock star wanna be who has a bunch of young teenage fans helping him to achieve his goal of being an international rock star. The most shocking thing in all these stories is precisely how normal Manson comes off even while playing his persona off stage.
About 16 minutes into episode one we see more of the 1995 Manson interview that opened this episode, and at one point he says that his band is "just a front for a child pornography ring." It's at this point where any rational person should realize that Manson is purposefully being as outrageous as possible, playing up to his persona of being a child predator that he wants parents to fear, religious leaders to fear, politicians to fear and anyone else in authority over teenagers to fear. He knows that it is this fear, even if they realize he is just joking around in outrageous ways, will make his band more appealing to rebellious teenage youth, who he is trying to lure as fans by being a compelling entertainer and teaching to think for themselves, which is probably the biggest threat of all. But he is doing this because he knew from his own personal experience in his own youth that this is what it took for him to become who he was; his philosophy is meant to bring true liberty and happiness to an individual and free them from the slavery of those who were making them be someone who they may not want to be. This is all chronicled in Manson's autobiography and even in his albums in the 1990's.
Stephen Bier then quotes Mark Twain as saying "virtue untested is no virtue at all." He compares a rock band touring to a group of pirates going from one port to another where their virtue is tested. He says this in reference to any type of temptations a band member may face, whether it be drugs, money, fame or sex. The point is that you have to make choices in the midst of temptations. And in saying this, he points out that if it involves other people, like sexual activity, then it has to be done by consenting adults, indicating at the same time that anything done with minors or against anyone's will should not be tolerated, even if only because it is illegal. Everything Stephen says is completely accurate, though I have seen some people try and twist his words by not presenting them entirely in context and making it sound the opposite of what he meant.
Around 18 minutes in we are finally introduced to all the silliness of Bianca Allaine Kyne, who is about to tell us a story that the docuseries has been leading up to with all the inappropriate things Manson was saying to and about minors in various audio samples. Bianca appears completely in black in an outfit that looks like it came out of the 19th century, and she is as plain faced as you could be. Her goal is clearly to appear like an innocent victim who has been living her trauma since 1995, though we know in reality she is the opposite of what she is trying to portray, which is why it looks so unnatural.
About 16 minutes into episode one we see more of the 1995 Manson interview that opened this episode, and at one point he says that his band is "just a front for a child pornography ring." It's at this point where any rational person should realize that Manson is purposefully being as outrageous as possible, playing up to his persona of being a child predator that he wants parents to fear, religious leaders to fear, politicians to fear and anyone else in authority over teenagers to fear. He knows that it is this fear, even if they realize he is just joking around in outrageous ways, will make his band more appealing to rebellious teenage youth, who he is trying to lure as fans by being a compelling entertainer and teaching to think for themselves, which is probably the biggest threat of all. But he is doing this because he knew from his own personal experience in his own youth that this is what it took for him to become who he was; his philosophy is meant to bring true liberty and happiness to an individual and free them from the slavery of those who were making them be someone who they may not want to be. This is all chronicled in Manson's autobiography and even in his albums in the 1990's.
Stephen Bier then quotes Mark Twain as saying "virtue untested is no virtue at all." He compares a rock band touring to a group of pirates going from one port to another where their virtue is tested. He says this in reference to any type of temptations a band member may face, whether it be drugs, money, fame or sex. The point is that you have to make choices in the midst of temptations. And in saying this, he points out that if it involves other people, like sexual activity, then it has to be done by consenting adults, indicating at the same time that anything done with minors or against anyone's will should not be tolerated, even if only because it is illegal. Everything Stephen says is completely accurate, though I have seen some people try and twist his words by not presenting them entirely in context and making it sound the opposite of what he meant.
Around 18 minutes in we are finally introduced to all the silliness of Bianca Allaine Kyne, who is about to tell us a story that the docuseries has been leading up to with all the inappropriate things Manson was saying to and about minors in various audio samples. Bianca appears completely in black in an outfit that looks like it came out of the 19th century, and she is as plain faced as you could be. Her goal is clearly to appear like an innocent victim who has been living her trauma since 1995, though we know in reality she is the opposite of what she is trying to portray, which is why it looks so unnatural.
As she talks about her upbringing, keep in mind that today her mother and sisters don't talk to her anymore, as she has publicly stated, due to the lies she is spreading, and the only family member that does talk to her is her father and her current third husband, Michael.
Notice also how you will never see a photo or video footage of Bianca and Manson together, not even an email exchange like she claims. This confirms what Manson said in a statement through his lawyer, that he has no idea who Bianca is and has no recollection of ever meeting her, despite her saying they were in communication for years and she toured with him for a few months in 1999, when he would assault her while he was engaged to Rose McGowan. People that have known Manson from that time and were around him, including Stephen Bier his bandmate, have all backed Manson's story that they have no idea who she is and that she is making up her whole story. She does show an autograph of Manson and the band, but those can easily be obtained by any fan in a number of ways.
It's odd what Bianca says about the band at one point in her interview, that when she met them when she was 16 that "they looked young, everybody looked young." When you're a 16 year old girl meeting guys in their early 20's, you would not make that observation. That is an observation a woman in her 40's like Bianca is today would make about guys in their 20's.
Bianca cries a lot as she recalls the shame she felt after being assaulted, but not once is her weeping accompanied by tears, nor her sniffles accompanied by anything coming out her nose, nor was there a break in her voice.
It should be noted that when Bianca first came out in February 2021 in magazine interviews and a podcast interview, she never stated that Manson sexually assaulted her as a minor. Instead she talked at length how it was a friend of hers who was sexually assaulted on the tour bus while she and her friends were outside waiting for her to come out. She would even blame Manson for the death of that friend that was assaulted a few years later, apparently from suicide though she never was clear on that. It wasn't until she issued her lawsuit in January 2023 that the story of her alleged sexual assault as a minor was told, and has since never talked about her friend. This is a major contradiction in her testimony.
After February 2021, Bianca went silent about Manson. In the summer of 2021 she tried sending an email to a former bandmate of Manson, Jeordie White, through a fan website of his that he had no part of. The webmaster of that fansite realized when Bianca issued her lawsuit in January 2023 that the weird email she received in the summer of 2021 was from the same Bianca. In the email Bianca essentially explains to Jeordie that she made up her allegations about Manson and no longer wanted to talk about it anymore. However, in late 2022 on her social media pages, especially Facebook and Instagram, Bianca explained she was triggered by Manson when he appeared in August of 2021 with Kanye West at his Donda listening party in his Holy Wood era makeup. In her delusional mind, she associated this appearance as Manson sending a direct message and threat to Bianca over the television, because it was done on her birthday. Then after the second appearance with Kanye at his next listening party months later, she was triggered again and decided to speak up once more and bring a lawsuit against him. This clearly shows Bianca is not only a liar, but likely very delusional as well.
Notice also how you will never see a photo or video footage of Bianca and Manson together, not even an email exchange like she claims. This confirms what Manson said in a statement through his lawyer, that he has no idea who Bianca is and has no recollection of ever meeting her, despite her saying they were in communication for years and she toured with him for a few months in 1999, when he would assault her while he was engaged to Rose McGowan. People that have known Manson from that time and were around him, including Stephen Bier his bandmate, have all backed Manson's story that they have no idea who she is and that she is making up her whole story. She does show an autograph of Manson and the band, but those can easily be obtained by any fan in a number of ways.
It's odd what Bianca says about the band at one point in her interview, that when she met them when she was 16 that "they looked young, everybody looked young." When you're a 16 year old girl meeting guys in their early 20's, you would not make that observation. That is an observation a woman in her 40's like Bianca is today would make about guys in their 20's.
Bianca cries a lot as she recalls the shame she felt after being assaulted, but not once is her weeping accompanied by tears, nor her sniffles accompanied by anything coming out her nose, nor was there a break in her voice.
It should be noted that when Bianca first came out in February 2021 in magazine interviews and a podcast interview, she never stated that Manson sexually assaulted her as a minor. Instead she talked at length how it was a friend of hers who was sexually assaulted on the tour bus while she and her friends were outside waiting for her to come out. She would even blame Manson for the death of that friend that was assaulted a few years later, apparently from suicide though she never was clear on that. It wasn't until she issued her lawsuit in January 2023 that the story of her alleged sexual assault as a minor was told, and has since never talked about her friend. This is a major contradiction in her testimony.
After February 2021, Bianca went silent about Manson. In the summer of 2021 she tried sending an email to a former bandmate of Manson, Jeordie White, through a fan website of his that he had no part of. The webmaster of that fansite realized when Bianca issued her lawsuit in January 2023 that the weird email she received in the summer of 2021 was from the same Bianca. In the email Bianca essentially explains to Jeordie that she made up her allegations about Manson and no longer wanted to talk about it anymore. However, in late 2022 on her social media pages, especially Facebook and Instagram, Bianca explained she was triggered by Manson when he appeared in August of 2021 with Kanye West at his Donda listening party in his Holy Wood era makeup. In her delusional mind, she associated this appearance as Manson sending a direct message and threat to Bianca over the television, because it was done on her birthday. Then after the second appearance with Kanye at his next listening party months later, she was triggered again and decided to speak up once more and bring a lawsuit against him. This clearly shows Bianca is not only a liar, but likely very delusional as well.
Howard King, Manson's attorney, appears for the first time after Bianca tells her story, and he explains why Bianca's story is not true. He says that he has declarations from credible witnesses who were there at the time, though he doesn't name them, and these witnesses explain that her allegations are impossible. Even the filmmakers couldn't find anyone to corroborate Bianca's story, which is why they issued the following statement:
Tim Vaughn then saying that girls were only objects to Manson is absurd in light of what Manson's girlfriends have said about him from that time, especially Missy Romero who he was with for a number of years. There are a number of girls from that time who have also said very positive things about Manson who knew him, and talked about how he was very kind to them. On the other hand, there were certain groupies that would do whatever was asked of them, and some people backstage either associated with Manson or with other bands he was touring with took advantage of that for their entertainment, some more than others, including Manson at times, though the stories usually just say Manson was there while others did things. The point is, from the stories that are told, females were not treated like objects unless they wanted to be treated like objects, and like many groupies of various bands, there were plenty of girls out there who wanted to be treated like objects for the entertainment of the bands they adored just to be close to them. Years later Manson would explain that he never really participated in a lot of those things, though he did do things he later came to regret. He explains this in his autobiography as well, where he would just feel bad for these girls who willingly put themselves through such humiliation and abuse, but it was all very much consensual. In fact, Manson said that the release of his album Smells Like Children was created to document the things he witnessed with groupies backstage when he toured with Danzig and their bus driver especially did crazy things with all too willing groupies. He also made a short film based on it that was never publically released called Groupie.
We are then introduced to Nathan Brackett, the former executive editor for Rolling Stone from 1996 to 2016. He is in the docuseries to express his regret for helping to promote Manson, and later on wants to make amends by helping to expose him. He is clearly just one of those media guys who has aligned himself with the MeToo movement to believe all women and hold the music industry accountable for the artists they now regret helping. It is a business strategy adopted by most publications these days out of fear of getting lawsuits and having to answer for the role they played, even if they are just allegations. Rolling Stone today is a very far left liberal publication which primarily has to focus on running constant hit pieces on Donald Trump to survive and cater to that type of audience, since they have lost a lot of credibility as a music publication.
Jennifer Pavao finally exposes herself about 37 minutes into the first episode when she identifies with those fans from the early 1990's in South Florida who didn't like the direction Manson went after 1996 and he shot to international fame. This group of early fans and friends of Manson from Florida have been trying to expose Manson since around the year 2000 as a fraud who changed who he was in order to become famous. Basically they didn't like that Manson went Hollywood and in many ways put his Florida past behind him. These are the people who usually stayed friends with former Manson band member Scott Putesky (Daisy Berkowitz), who was fired from the band by Manson in 1996 because he refused to evolve with the band, and for years had a certain animosity towards Manson for that. Jennifer Pavao therefore just comes off as a disillusioned fan who chose not to evolve with the band and didn't like the fact that she was forgotten while Manson became adored by millions. In the early 1990's it was common for a new band that developed a strong yet small and intimate underground following to be considered sellouts by those same early fans when those bands became popular and they got lost in a larger crowd of adoring fans. They felt like they initially possessed something exclusive to them and their circle and they liked the attention they got from the band when they were relatively unknown but to a few. To then become popular meant you sold your soul to greed and fame and were no longer the same person they loved.
At the the 38:43 mark Bianca is shown in a home video going to a Manson concert in California in 1999, and is depicted holding a disposable camera. In her lawsuit she claims that Manson took her on tour after this concert for a few months. However, since she had a disposable camera, wouldn't she have at least one photo with Manson? And who is taking the video? Obviously Bianca possessed the tape to the video, which probably means the video camera was hers. Wouldn't she take a video at some point with Manson while she was on tour with him if she really was on tour with him?
Jennifer Pavao finally exposes herself about 37 minutes into the first episode when she identifies with those fans from the early 1990's in South Florida who didn't like the direction Manson went after 1996 and he shot to international fame. This group of early fans and friends of Manson from Florida have been trying to expose Manson since around the year 2000 as a fraud who changed who he was in order to become famous. Basically they didn't like that Manson went Hollywood and in many ways put his Florida past behind him. These are the people who usually stayed friends with former Manson band member Scott Putesky (Daisy Berkowitz), who was fired from the band by Manson in 1996 because he refused to evolve with the band, and for years had a certain animosity towards Manson for that. Jennifer Pavao therefore just comes off as a disillusioned fan who chose not to evolve with the band and didn't like the fact that she was forgotten while Manson became adored by millions. In the early 1990's it was common for a new band that developed a strong yet small and intimate underground following to be considered sellouts by those same early fans when those bands became popular and they got lost in a larger crowd of adoring fans. They felt like they initially possessed something exclusive to them and their circle and they liked the attention they got from the band when they were relatively unknown but to a few. To then become popular meant you sold your soul to greed and fame and were no longer the same person they loved.
At the the 38:43 mark Bianca is shown in a home video going to a Manson concert in California in 1999, and is depicted holding a disposable camera. In her lawsuit she claims that Manson took her on tour after this concert for a few months. However, since she had a disposable camera, wouldn't she have at least one photo with Manson? And who is taking the video? Obviously Bianca possessed the tape to the video, which probably means the video camera was hers. Wouldn't she take a video at some point with Manson while she was on tour with him if she really was on tour with him?

As the first episode ends, Howard King and Stephen Bier mention important facts that should actually shut the door on allegations that Manson sexually assaulted minors. Howard King doubles down on the fact that all the evidence shows Bianca Kyne never had any sort of communication or relationship with Manson, and Stephen Bier insists that Manson never crossed the line with any minors while he was around. In fact, Stephen Bier even mentions that their tour manager would post the age of consent of each city they went to on the corner of their daily sheets to make sure they do not cross the line and do anything with any minors and get in legal situations. One groupie from that time explained on a social media post that minors under 21 were not allowed to drink alcohol and take drugs with the band, nor allowed in their hotel rooms, let alone take part in any sexual activity with the band members.
The episode ends with the following comment from Howard King:
The episode ends with the following comment from Howard King:
IV. EPISODE TWO