Crime Neil Gaiman Accused of Sexual Assault, Author Denies Allegations

Acclaimed author Neil Gaiman is facing multiple allegations of sexual assault, making him the subject of a police complaint in New Zealand. Gaiman has offered a response as well, refuting the accusations.

Per Tortoise Media, two women have accused Gaiman of sexual assault while in consensual relationships with the author. The allegations go back two decades, but they were first reported on in Tortoise's podcast Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman, which was released on Wednesday. The women describe allegations of "rough and degrading sex," alleging that these instances were not always consensual.

One of the two accusers, a 23-year-old woman named Scarlett, claims she was sexually assaulted in February 2022 just hours after first meeting Gaiman. According to Scarlett, the assault happened in a bath at Gaiman's New Zealand home where she was hired to work as a nanny for his child. Gaiman says that the two merely "cuddled" and "made out" that day, adding that a three-week sexual relationship ensued, but was entirely consensual. Scarlett insists that Gaiman was "rough and degrading," and reportedly, messages, notes, and accounts from friends support her allegations.

Another accuser, identifying herself as K, says she was an 18-year-old fan when she first met Gaiman at a book signing in Sarasota, Florida, in 2003. K claims that she began a romantic relationship with Gaiman after she turned 20, resulting in engaging in rough sex that she "neither wanted nor enjoyed." It's alleged that one particular incident saw Gaimain forcefully penetrating K despite her objections.

Gaiman has denied this claim as well. The Sandman author maintains that his relationship with K was never unlawful and that he's "disturbed" to be accused of such behavior. According to Gaiman, K's allegations stem from "regret" over the relationship she had when it was over. He also attributed Scarlett's allegations to a condition she has that's associated with false memories, but the Tortoise report noted that this isn't supported by the accuser's medical records.

Additionally, Gaiman has strongly denied all allegations of non-consensual sex at any time with the women accusing him of sexual assault. He also claimed that New Zealand police ignored his offer for assistance with one woman's complaint in 2022, suggesting that shows a lack of substance in the investigation. New Zealand officers have responded by saying they made a "number of attempts to speak to key people as part of this investigation and those efforts remain ongoing." It was added that there are "a number of factors to take into consideration with this case, including location of all parties.”

Gaiman has long been one of pop culture's most revered authors, bringing to life acclaimed stories like The Sandman, Good Omens, and American Gods. Just recently, Netflix has been promoting the upcoming second season of The Sandman, which is based on Gaiman's source material; he also executive produces the series.

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Honestly while Gaiman was not on the top of my "insufferable and terminally overhyped geek culture retards I cant wait to get outed as sex predators for my own amusement" list (currently being topped by Wil Wheaton followed by Alan Moore) I cannot deny feeling that little bit jollier with the thought I may never have to hear him mentioned again

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

"THIS FAMOUS FAIRY TALE ACKSHUALLY HAS A GRIMDARK BACKSTORY, AREN'T I SO EDGY?!"
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Aka the entire plot of Fable. Just nonstop rape and murder for LE EDGE right reddit?

The Wolf Among Us 2 is probably going to be so cringe

Ya know.....its still better than Fables from what I hear, which turned Snow White into a straight up loli/ugly bastard rapefic between Snow White and the 7 Dwarves because you know shit only gets more srs and edgy and interesting the more rape you crowbar into the mix.

I fucking miss Shrek so damn much right now. Shrek seems to be the only nigga who didnt rape Snow White.

That's because he Checked himself before he Shreked himself

Good point. Let's check in on the subreddit.
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Kinda feeling like this while reading these heartbroken reddit threads....
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I dunno...call me cruel but its so fucking gratifying to watch others have their beloved pop culture consoomer shit dying screaming before their eyes after so much I once enjoyed being turned to shit as of late.

Especially since i really fucking detest gaiman and his ilk to my core and thus am doubly happy to dance on the grave of his career

Agreed. The crying and coping on reddit is hilarious.

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Hehe based Spawn man wins again. I wonder if he was thinking of Gaiman when he developed "The Violator"

Isn't Todd just as litigious as Neil?

Yes when it comes to his toys and comic books.

 

[God of Nothing]

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afraid he lost his mind years ago

 

[Judge Holden]

Being raised by such people might explain why I have such a strong aversion to his work. How to explain this...? Deconstruction is where someone vivisects a trope/myth/genre/whatever to examine the parts. If you subject a child to this, they learn (or think they learn) how something works without ever appreciating the thing itself. Children need to first enjoy fantasy, people need to enjoy legends and feel elevated by our myths. If you start at an early age deconstructing you kill the belief in the thing itself.

And that's how Gaiman's work feels to me - it's nothing but moving the parts around and thinking its profound. Compare with Tolkien or C.S.Lewis who valued the mythic themes of the end product of their work for their own sake. They both understood the structure of myth and legend as well as Gaiman (much better, frankly) but they used that deeper insight to better create mythic tales. Gaiman doesn't understand the value in what he's creating. He's someone who can only see the trees and not the forest.

I have thankfully not exposed myself to Gaiman's work enough to form much of an opinion beyond my initial distaste for the vomit of fluffy and pretentious purple prose I found when I tried to read Sandman for the first and only time, but with regards to deconstruction works made by smugfuck hacks it is so often the case that the deconstructive changes being made are so fucking trite and inconsequential in the grand scheme of things and yet the narrative focuses entirely on them because without this shit it becomes apparent how utterly inferior a work it is compared to the shit originally being deconstructed.

A good work of deconstruction should ask at least one interesting question about the genre which fundamentally transforms the end result in meaningful ways that diverge from the source material.

A good example of this would be Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy which along with similar works at the time asked questions like "what if the Wild West was not actually a h*cking wholesome land of fun and adventure but a violent crime ruled hellhole like it often was in reality?" or "what if the protagonist was not a morally perfect cardboard cutout but instead a morally ambiguous and self serving anti-hero?". You also had movies like Searchers which asked "what if the grizzled injun hunting badass was actually as much a burnt out nigh genocidal psychopath as such a lifestyle would require him to be?" among other questions that seem incredibly obvious these days but went decidedly against traditional genre norms for the time while importantly also being superlative works in their own right beyond the deconstructive changes. The end results being movies that were not only fundamentally different from what was once the genre norm but something that became so successful and popular they wound up supplanting said norm.

A bad example of this would be one of my most loathed punching bags and something I seem unable to fucking stop myself from ranting about every couple of months, the Crossed line of comics by noted edgetard Garth Ennis of countless similar shitty edgetard deconstruction attempts. This series and its spin offs asked questions like "what if we kept literally every fucking zombie apocalypse convention and cliche built up since the 1960s but had the zombies rape people too?" and "what if our rape zombies liked screaming FUCK FUCK FUCK very loudly while raping people?" and as typical in an ennis work "what if we made all the characters either insufferable assholes or drooling retards?". The end results being comics that would be indistinguishable from a thousand other generic Walking Dead knockoff comics aside from bolted on scenes of the zombies raping people or acting like retarded edgelords or the main characters raping people or acting like retarded edgelords.

Alan Moore - Most likely a nonce - see Lost Girls ACTUALLY DON'T SEE LOST GIRLS THAT SHIT IS BASICALLY LEGAL LOLISMUT

Honestly its easier to name the works of Alan Moore in which he was not crowbarring child fucking onto the page or into the story in one way or another. He makes Stephen King look like Bob Ross in that regard, although atleast Stephen King used to be able to write a decent story once upon a time.

 

[God of Nothing]

A good example of this would be Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy which along with similar works at the time asked questions like "what if the Wild West was not actually a h*cking wholesome land of fun and adventure but a violent crime ruled hellhole like it often was in reality?" or "what if the protagonist was not a morally perfect cardboard cutout but instead a morally ambiguous and self serving anti-hero?". You also had movies like Searchers which asked "what if the grizzled injun hunting badass was actually as much a burnt out nigh genocidal psychopath as such a lifestyle would require him to be?" among other questions that seem incredibly obvious these days but went decidedly against traditional genre norms for the time while importantly also being superlative works in their own right beyond the deconstructive changes. The end results being movies that were not only fundamentally different from what was once the genre norm but something that became so successful and popular they wound up supplanting said norm.

The difference between deconstruction and subversion is one builds where it tears down and the other leaves you with nothing.

A bad example of this would be one of my most loathed punching bags and something I seem unable to fucking stop myself from ranting about every couple of months, the Crossed line of comics by noted edgetard Garth Ennis of countless similar shitty edgetard deconstruction attempts. This series and its spin offs asked questions like "what if we kept literally every fucking zombie apocalypse convention and cliche built up since the 1960s but had the zombies rape people too?" and "what if our rape zombies liked screaming FUCK FUCK FUCK very loudly while raping people?" and as typical in an ennis work "what if we made all the characters either insufferable assholes or drooling retards?". The end results being comics that would be indistinguishable from a thousand other generic Walking Dead knockoff comics aside from bolted on scenes of the zombies raping people or acting like retarded edgelords or the main characters raping people or acting like retarded edgelords.

This is subversion.
naturally one is vastly shittier than the other

 

[Nothing To See Here]

His greater crime was being friends with Hbomberguy

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Late, but I’m pretty sure this is Chuck Tingle, another “””famous””” author on tumblr, not Neil Gaiman. That’s Chuck’s writing style, referring to himself in the third person and describing people as “buckaroos”. He’s equally annoying a faggot (he got famous for writing stupid erotica parodies and fucking up the Hugo awards, iirc), but I don’t think anyone’s claimed he’s done the bad touch on them yet.

 

[sheepworldvizor]

The real story is who has he pissed off to have it blow up like this?

Late payback from scientology?

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Honestly how much of this is just Palmer, angry at the divorce, convincing women to sell Neil down the river? he married crazy but didn't realize she could destroy his life

Doesn't matter. Mister GAYMAN himself was more then happy to throw everyone else under the bus with his believe all women shit.

Stop giving celebs the benefit of the doubt when they have already shown they won't for you.

 

[Kulee Baba]

Doesn't matter. Mister GAYMAN himself was more then happy to throw everyone else under the bus with his believe all women shit.

Stop giving celebs the benefit of the doubt when they have already shown they won't for you.

I just operate under "Where there's smoke there's fire."

When Cosbygate dropped you had what some 50 women all accusing him of the same shit? Yeah most likely Cosby is a date rapist. Neil Gaiman has 5 women saying he's a creep, yeah he's probably a creep. But last year Danny Elfman got sued by a literal who that claimed he tried to serve her a Cumitini and for now I don't believe it. Just because it's just one accuser and Elfman's collaboration with Tim Burton is peak movie theme music.

Would Danny Elfman give me the benefit of the doubt? Maybe, maybe not. But I'm not going to base my judgement on some random Hollywood nerd. Gaiman would have to be the victim of an elaborate conspiracy to be the victim in this.

 

[Strix454]

I mean his father ended up pretty disgraced in Scientology, enough to be basically unpersoned and sent to the Hole, right?

From what I understand, your status is basically stripped from you when that happens.

The clout, all the money, all the time, everything doesn't matter when you're deemed a Suppressive Person.

His father fell during a purge of old scientologists in the early 1980s. Hubbard originally had a franchise model for it but got rid of all that to centralize more money in his own (Hubbard's) hands. His father was unpersoned and the family as a whole lost their royal status within the group, but they were not collectively un-personed. The biggest change for Neil at that time was that the free money was over and he had to get a job to support himself. That is when he started freelance writing and went into comics.

But his first wife was an all-in member from the time they got married in the 1980s all the way to their eventual divorce and nearly his entire family are still active. He has always been very deliberately misleading and vague about his involvement after 1985. I think someone disclosed that even in the late 1990s he was serving on a board for one of the organizations shell companies.

 

[Irene and 22 others]

I have thankfully not exposed myself to Gaiman's work enough to form much of an opinion beyond my initial distaste for the vomit of fluffy and pretentious purple prose I found when I tried to read Sandman for the first and only time, but with regards to deconstruction works made by smugfuck hacks it is so often the case that the deconstructive changes being made are so fucking trite and inconsequential in the grand scheme of things and yet the narrative focuses entirely on them because without this shit it becomes apparent how utterly inferior a work it is compared to the shit originally being deconstructed.

I'm not a fan of Gaiman's work, but I have read some of his books. I have only read a little bit of Sandman (maybe the first five issues or so), but I suspect that he's coasted off of the success of that as I was not overly impressed by the novels of his that had been recommended to me. I wouldn't say they're bad, but just that they don't live up to the hype. Maybe some of his comics were good by the standard of comics, but that's not saying much.

 

[Vibralldo]

My theory:

Neil Gaiman was called "Kneel Gayman" constantly as a kid so he decided to prove his bullies wrong by raping every woman he could

 

[Francesco DeIIamorte]

Oh, thank goodness. Now maybe he'll stop raping Miracleman.

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

He’d ask her to call him “master” and beat her with his belt. “These were not sexy little taps,” she says. When she told him she didn’t like it, she says he replied, “It’s the only way I can get off.”

Imagine being such a pornsick weirdo that your penis no longer gets hard for normal sex, only abusive "kinks".

What a limp-dick loser.

 

[Otterly]

Well, that was an awful read. He's like Joe Lavery in both looks and attitude.


I want to know why Tilda Swinton is giving out scholarships to random drifting teenagers. I hate celebrities.

I have always thought she was very odd. I’m not surprised about gaiman, I know he creeped on tori amos. I feel sorry the little boy - is this why gaiman suddenly fled NZ for Skye or wherever?

 

[UnfOrtuNatE BaskEtt]

he fucked the au pair, and it was rough and degrading....

what did she expect?

this is trial by media/female gossip....

and regretted sex is not rape...

i am enjoying it though...unlike the au pair....

 

[Commander X]

Spoiler

 

[Safir]

Don't get me wrong, Gaiman is a male feminist therefore he has probably raped. But I can still look at these two and think they knowingly walked right into it, again and again, where "it" is Gaiman's penis.

It's kind of like scams: people who sent their fortune to Nigerian princes and gay Korean singers will send what remains to scammer-hunters who promise to get all of it back. And a sleb doesn't need to mail spam or make cold calls, the weak-minded identify themselves.

These chicks walked into Gaiman's penis once and it was more disgusting than you can even imagine. But because they walked into it once, they're the sort of weak creatures to blame themselves. Accordingly, they have three options:

• suicide
• force themselves to think it wasn't all that bad
• become stronger lmao no

People don't get persuaded by rational arguments, they adopt viewpoints of the cool kidz. Therefore, slebs, who have their cocks slobbered over by the media and fandoms 25x8, wield nearly unlimited power. If you befriend that chick, spend time with her, and show her the Farms, you can fix her. Another way she can get better is if she leaves the sleb-slave class and gets a wagie job that wears her down with mundanity. Finally, she can fall into some other fandom and stop thinking fisheye noses are sexy.

 

[Scrumption]

That it was Palmer doing scorched earth would make sense, if it wasn’t for the fact that the stories all claim he found these BPD victims thru Palmer. So neither is particularly likable.

It’s crazy that Amanda, who was raped/sa’d as a child would lead these broken women to the slaughter. What kind of psychology is behind that?

Don’t get me started on the slave labor. These people pretend to care about the poor and underprivileged but behind closed doors they take advantage of them all the same. It’s all virtue signaling all the way down.

 

[WelperHelper99]

TL;DR: There's an argument here between a pragmatist saying "take practical steps and change your behaviour" and moralists saying: "don't blame victims ever". It's an argument that cannot be resolved because they don't connect. The pragmatist isn't arguing about how things should be or morality. And the moralist isn't arguing about effectiveness but about right and wrong. It's taking place because in the centre of both is the concept of Responsibility and that has two different ways of interpreting it: cause and effect and moral burden. The two sides will continue to fail to convince the other because they can't.

I mean I see where you're coming from. Don't walk down dark alley ways at night. The problem is it happened. Should she have avoided the situation entirely? Yeah. There probably was multiple ways of doing so. She didn't, and none of that changes that Neil Gamon is a rape ape that takes advantage of people.

 

[Strix454]

My theory:

Neil Gaiman was called "Kneel Gayman" constantly as a kid so he decided to prove his bullies wrong by raping every woman he could

My theory is that he obtained his comic career by being repeatedly violated by Alan Moore. That Moore was the bully in your theory.

He became Moore's protege in the 1980s out of nowhere and early on Moore did everything possible to promote him including handing over Miracleman to him. It was always strange.