Neil Gaiman, a well-known British novelist, was accused of sexual assault and misconduct again months after he was charged with identical offences.
An article in the New York Magazine titled “There Is No Safe Word” details eight women’s claims of abuse, coercion, or assault by Gaiman. One of these women was Gaiman’s nanny, and his second wife was Amanda Palmer.
In February 2022, the nanny reported that Gaiman had sexually abused her in a bathtub in the backyard in New Zealand. Additionally, she said that while his son was playing with an iPad in the same room, the 64-year-old raped her beneath the covers of a hotel bed.
The claims of eight separate women, including Scarlett Pavlovich, who once looked after Gaiman’s child, have been collated in a Vulture piece. Because of their strong relationship, Pavlovich agreed to watch their child when Gaiman’s ex-wife, Amanda Palmer, was gone.
When she first met Neil Gaiman, he urged her to take a bath in their old garden bathtub and subsequently joined her, which resulted in a non-consensual sexual encounter. ‘Master’ was the term Gaiman intended her to use when they met.
‘I said “no.” I said, “I’m not confident with my body,’” Pavlovich said. ‘[Gaiman] said, “It’s okay — it’s only me. Just relax. Just have a chat.”
She confided in his ex-wife and filed a police report, but neither Palmer nor Gaiman made a statement, thus the case never proceeded. He allegedly paid her $9,200 over nine months after she signed an NDA about the alleged sexual assault, according to her.
The majority of the women Gaiman reportedly mistreated were in their 20s, with the youngest being 18 years old, the study said. At the time, the author was at least forty years old.
In July 2024, five women levelled similar charges against the author of science fiction and fantasy, whose works, including American Gods, The Sandman, and Good Omens, have been adapted into television shows.
Tortoise Media released a six-part podcast series called Master that contained the accusations.
J.K. Rowling On Neil Gaiman Allegations
In her remarks on Monday, J.K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, discussed the accusations against Neil Gaiman and likened them to the sexual assault convictions of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
“The literary crowd that had a hell of a lot to say about Harvey Weinstein before he was convicted has been strangely muted in its response to multiple accusations against Neil Gaiman from young women who’d never met, yet – as with Weinstein – tell remarkably similar stories,” she wrote on X.
Weinstein, 72, was found guilty by a jury of raping aspiring actress Jessica Mann in 2013 and sexually assaulting former production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006. More than 80 women have accused him of sexual misconduct, including these women.
He received 16 years in jail for the California case and 23 years in prison for the New York case.
What Gaiman stated about false memories
Though it caused a hindrance to the creation of Good Omens, the author and his representatives vehemently rejected all of the accusations since the initial story surfaced in 2024.
In all instances, Gaiman defended himself and responded to the stories of Pavlovich and Kendra Stout.
He maintained that his relationship with Kendra was never illegal and that Pavlovich had a medical problem that caused her to have false memories.