Neil Gaiman: Best-selling British author faces US lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault

A pistillate has lodged civilian lawsuits against Neil Gaiman and his woman successful the US, accusing the British author of sexually assaulting her.

The lawsuits accidental the pistillate was befriended by Palmer erstwhile she was 22 and stateless successful New Zealand and began moving for the couple, which is erstwhile the assaults began.

According to the lawsuits, Palmer told the pistillate determination had been erstwhile complaints from much than a twelve antithetic women.

The pistillate alleges the mates violated laws connected national quality trafficking, with complaints of assault, artillery and inflicting affectional distress against Gaiman and negligence against Palmer.

She is seeking astatine slightest 7 cardinal dollars (£5.6 million) successful damages.

Five women, 4 of whom were among 8 featured successful a New York Magazine nonfiction successful January, made allegations astir the writer successful a Tortoise Media podcast bid published successful summertime 2024.

Since the mag article, steadfast Dark Horse Comics cancelled upcoming enactment by Gaiman and a UK signifier adaptation of his publication Coraline has been scrapped.

The British-born The Sandman writer wrote successful a blog station helium had work the allegations with “horror and dismay”.

He wrote: “I’ve stayed quiescent until now, some retired of respect for the radical who were sharing their stories and retired of a tendency not to gully adjacent much attraction to a batch of misinformation.

“I’ve ever tried to beryllium a backstage person, and felt progressively that societal media was the incorrect spot to speech astir important idiosyncratic matters. I’ve present reached the constituent wherever I consciousness that I should accidental something.

“As I work done this latest postulation of accounts, determination are moments I half-recognise and moments I don’t, descriptions of things that happened sitting beside things that emphatically did not happen.

“I’m acold from a cleanable person, but I person ne'er engaged successful non-consensual intersexual enactment with anyone. Ever.”

The writer said helium understood that “not everyone volition judge me” and added helium would beryllium “doing my precise champion to merit their trust, arsenic good arsenic the spot of my readers”.

He claimed immoderate of the allegations “simply ne'er happened” portion others had been “distorted” to “bear nary narration to reality”, but said helium would “take work for immoderate missteps I made”.