Neil Gaiman faces civil lawsuit for sexual assault

Neil Gaiman is present facing a civilian suit from a pistillate who has accused the writer of intersexual assault.

Neil, 64, and his wife, Amanda Palmer, 48, are facing civilian lawsuits -filed successful Wisconsin, Massachusetts and New York – which impeach the Good Omens writer of sexually assaulting her.

The lawsuits allege that the pistillate was stateless and aged 22 erstwhile she met Palmer successful New Zealand, began moving for the mates and the assaults began.

According to the lawsuits, Palmer told the pistillate that determination were complaints from much than 12 antithetic women.

It was besides alleged that 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.

The writer archetypal faced allegations of intersexual misconduct successful July 2024.

Two incidents were initially reported arsenic portion of an probe by Tortoise, which was partially led by Rachel Johnson, the sister of Boris Johnson.

Gaiman denied immoderate allegations of maltreatment and insisted the relationships were consensual.

In January, caller allegations emerged and helium was accused of battle by 8 antithetic women who were featured successful a New York Magazine article.

One of the women, Gaiman’s erstwhile nanny Scarlett Pavlovich, claimed she was assaulted successful the beingness of Gaiman’s five-year-old son.

She besides alleged she was sexually assaulted successful a bathtub, called his ‘slave’ aggregate times, and helium ejaculated connected her look contempt her saying ‘no’.

In different incidents, Pavlovich alleged she was forced to devour vomit and urine.

Gaiman issued a statement referring to each the aggregate allegations connected January 14, denying the claims.

The station read: ‘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.’

He went connected to adhd helium would beryllium ‘doing my precise champion to merit their trust, arsenic good arsenic the spot of my readers’ and would ‘take work for immoderate missteps I made’.

Since the merchandise of the mag article, The Sandman, the Netflix TV bid adapted from Gaiman’s publication has been cancelled aft 2 seasons.

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

Metro has reached retired to Neil Gaiman’s representatives for comment.

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