A New Zealand woman has filed three civil lawsuits against the author of ‘Best Seller’ such as ‘Coraline’ and ‘The Sandman’ and his wife, Amanda Palmer, accusing Neil Gaiman of sexually assaulting her repeatedly while working as a nanny of the couple.
Scarlett Pavlovich filed the demands before the federal courts of Wisconsin, Massachusetts and New York on Monday. She was one of the eight women who appeared in an article published last January in the magazine ‘The New York Magazine’ in which the accusations of aggression, abuse and coercion.
According to ‘The Guardian’, he alleges that he had no home and lived on a beach when he met Palmer in Auckland (New Zealand) in 2020, when he was 22 years old. In his demand, Pavlovich also accuses Gaiman of Violation, coercion and traffic of peopleand to “get it and present it” to Gaiman “for such abuse.”
Palmer and Gaiman, who married in 2011 and have a child together, are currently in the process of divorce. According to the demands, the author’s wife invited Pavlovich to the couple’s house on Waiheke Island. He began to take care of his son and help with domestic tasks, and finally became the couple’s nanny.
According to the demands, Gaiman sexually assaul In her career as a writer.
According to the plaintiff, when he told Palmer the aggressions, he told him that more than a dozen women had told him in the past that Gaiman had sexually abused them. The aggressions did not stop until Pavlovich told the writer’s wife to commit suicide, according to AP.
Pavlovich defends that Palmer knew about Gaiman’s sexual desires and presented him knowing that he would attack her. He alleges that marriage violated federal prohibitions on people traffic and claims at least 7 million dollars in damages.
Gaiman has denied all the accusations of sexual assault against him, and last month he wrote in a public statement: «I am far from being a perfect person, but I have never had sex without consent with anyone. Never”.
Gaiman has worked with numerous publishers over the years. Two of them, Harpercollins and WW Norton, have said they have no plans to publish their books in the future. Others, including Bloomsbury, have so far declined to comment.
Dark Horse Comics a few days ago that he would no longer publish his illustrated series based on his novel ‘Anansi Boys’. The seventh of eight editions was published earlier that month. Disney has paused a planned adaptation of ‘The Graveyard Book’ by Gaiman, while Netflix is still scheduled to launch a second season based on ‘The Sandman’.
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