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

 

[Dr. Butt]

I think the posters who are intent on proving that women molest themselves and that the rest of us are engaging in ass-bandit-blaming need to understand that what Neil was doing was the crazy-girl version of standing outside the local homeless shelter with $20 and a bag of McDonald's to get blowjobs from the lady hobos. Or, the mental version of a guy raping children.
Someone already tried to explain how if you don't understand you're not in the pool of targets, but it wasn't in the language of confused MRA guys.

And next day texting the guy who raped you something like "I'm excited for the possibilities ahead" and "I can't stop thinking about you" is not good judgement.

Exactly, he was seeking out bitches with a 2-digit IQ, or a married woman who thought what her guy said at the altar is evidence that everyone on the planet is good, protective, and completely honest about everything.

not going to say i'm a fan but i have heard of Neil and the most shocking thing is how heavily tied into scientology his family is and thats not brought up ever.

100%. It was his whole life and is the centre and source of all his lunacy and abusive behaviour. Same as the drug-addicted trainwreck actors in the 90s who grew up in Children of God, or the rapist from the Duggar family TV show. Mamas, don't raise your boys in cults.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

https://x.com/hayasaka_aryan/status/1878976913664065663

 

[FedPostalService]

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?

Because women fucking hate other women, Any notion that there’s some form of feminist solidarity out there is a weird delusional lie and cope.

 

[Dr. Butt]

Would Danny Elfman give me the benefit of the doubt?

Probably not. He and Les Claypool are like Schrodinger's shitlords but they both have such a sex maniac weirdo appearance and way of talking & behaving on stage. The sort of guy who is smart and talented but dries up every vagina except that of the neediest, most insecure woman. Like a not-fat Louis CK. Men don't notice because they're already grossed out by other men so can't tell when one is more gross than another.

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.

AP is socially immature, and seems to think that the favours artists/hipsters do for each other in their early 20s during the band house/couch surfing phase aren't a stage of life or phase to move past once you build your career foundation.

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

Remember comics are 50% art and the art in Sandman was delightful.

 

[NoReturn]

Sir, that is an excerpt from the interview with the author at the end of the American Gods audiobook, recorded in 2001.

Good lord.

not going to say i'm a fan but i have heard of Neil and the most shocking thing is how heavily tied into scientology his family is and thats not brought up ever. how the fuck was Neil basically the biggest author on the internet in the 2000s and especially on tumblr and no one talked about his family basically being the head of scientology in the UK.
The fact that wasn't shouted from the rooftops during the Atheism era of the internet is the most shocking thing to me. the fact he managed to avoid getting that label slapped on him despite still being extremely involved in scientology is crazy to me.

Yeah ppl focus on the scientology shit and I’m like…no, look deeper.

1. Most of his tumblr-era came after Project Chanology and South Park's "Trapped in the Closet" so Scientology wasn't seen as anything potentially dangerous anymore. Their reputation was basically ruined, and the tumblr-kids would have just seen it as odd and quirky.
2. Whenever you look at articles about it, they say he "left the church" or was a "Jewish Scientologist". This resonates with the whole "found family"/"leaving church" thing that appealed to the same demographic, so they wouldn't have questioned any after-effects.*

*And there are after-effects. Just like how ex-Christians have behaviors and beliefs they picked up from the church that persist after dropping the religion, it's the same for Scientologists.

How much of a psy-op was that entire era online if the internet couldn't even turn Neil Gaiman into Mr.Scientology? him and his family technically rank above Tom Cruise and John Travolta. Which brings me to the other point, how the fuck did Neil never use that to his advantage?

He couldn't. First, he claims to have left it and wasn't an active member that would have wanted to help them, but also the church was pretty smart when it came to things like public perception. They knew they couldn't glom on to Gaiman's tumblr-era because the timing didn't work out. It's why they're keeping their head down now, too.

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.

Yes, but he was also deemed an SP, and they took that seriously. If you're marked as an SP, you're "fair game" and anything they want to do to you is acceptable. To make an odd comparison, we are an SP to Liz Fong-Jones and the Tall Poppy league of supervillains. You know how they feel morally justified doing all that shit to the Farms and want us dead (both as a site and as people)? It's basically the same thing.

Minor PL, but I once made a joke that I was an SP in the presence of a Scientologist because I was hanging out with her and exposing her to the outside world and her eyes got all huge and she literally shouted "DON'T EVEN JOKE ABOUT THAT!" It was very awkward, not just for the shouting, but because it was more emotion than I'd ever seen from her until that point. They take that tone shit seriously.

oh you don't know? Neil's sister is back on top in the UK apparently. plus Neil's first wife was a scientologist and he raised his previous kids in the religion too and was last seen at functions as recently as like 2010. like i guess the family kept in the religion because they all seem very high up in the org.

iirc his son once worked for Google, too. No idea where he is now, though.

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.

He's someone who can only see the trees and not the forest.

Deconstruction is an auditing session for mythology and beliefs, this is how Scientologists are raised. It's part of what contributes to that "empty" feeling they give off. They have all their core beliefs and understandings picked apart and broken into tiny unstable pieces and told this is what makes them stronger, better, and more enlightened than everyone else. The only "truth" they can hold have to do with the beliefs of the religion itself.
Think of how much going through something like that messed up Kaczynski, now imagine them doing that to thousands of people, including children.

Millennial journalists are fucking trash. They all think of themselves as these great storytellers.

I was wondering if she was one of those secret GenX people (like how a lot of "Millennial writing" in games is actually GenX writers) but she graduated from college in 2006, so you're right on the money:

 

[Sawamura Simp]

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?

"Do unto others what has been done to me;
do unto others what has been done to you."

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tool/prisonsex.html

Fuck the "Video Unavailable" Youtube crap.

 

[Judge Holden]

I was wondering if she was one of those secret GenX people (like how a lot of "Millennial writing" in games is actually GenX writers) but she graduated from college in 2006, so you're right on the money:

She took the skull of Whedon and now Gaiman. I will not hear any nigger here disrespect m'lady's honor after how much fucking joy and vindication she delivered to me

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

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

Hey now, don't forget about FERALS, Supergod and others like that

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Ahahaha holt SHIIIIITTT it's perfect. I forgot that the Spawn series originally had Todd doing those unusual intros.

Because women fucking hate other women, Any notion that there’s some form of feminist solidarity out there is a weird delusional lie and cope.

Exactly. Women backstab like CRAZY

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

What is this, like the 4,729,310th case of a SJ pushing outspoken (loudmouth) male feminist getting outed as a sex pest and or horrible human being? Bonus points for anti-GG history.

It's hard to tell with these sorts of things, what is butthurt for not getting him/after the fact shit, but far be it for me to hold him to a different standard than he insisted for other accused guys. And to be fair, it is not surprising based on outspoken nature and aggressive virtue signaling alone. It happens so fucking often.

 

[God of Nothing]

What is this, like the 4,729,310th case of a SJ pushing outspoken (loudmouth) male feminist getting outed as a sex pest and or horrible human being? Bonus points for anti-GG history.

A lot of these sound like butthurt for not getting him/after the fact shit, but far be it for me to hold him to a different standard than he insisted for other accused guys. And to be fair, it is not surprising based on outspoken nature and aggressive virtue signaling alone. It happens so fucking often.

don't make me point at the chart

 

[Francesco DeIIamorte]

he fucked the au pair

Wait a second. Wasn't that a plot point in The Ocean at the End of the Lane? The dad of the protag bonks the nanny, who's actually the antagonist.

 

[Judge Holden]

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In all seriousness, someone taking the time to loudly and regularly declare how he is part of some righteous cause without prompting while also doing absolutely nothing tangible or requiring sustained and genuine effort for said righteous cause, is someone who needs to have a whole bunch of eyes kept on them.

Best case scenario they are cynically trying to min-max their personal image/brand for career purposes by low effort high volume statements and declarations like this.

Usually they are actively trying to morally licence themselves to act like insufferable and exploitative assholes with impunity by contriving how those they treat like shit are actually opposing the cause and thus deserve to be treated like shit

All too often though they are using the cause as camouflage to engage in scumfuck predatory behaviour and as a means of accessing vulnerable victims who will be easily discouraged from reporting them

 

[Jar-Jar Fanboy]

>named "Kneel, Gay Man"
>exclusively rapes women
What did he mean by this?

 

[3deadniggers]

It was rape. She didn't want it, she said she didn't want it, and he did it anyway. It doesn't matter how she rationalized it at the time. If this was an awkward date with bad communication it would be one thing, but this was somebody who was mislead and used by a freak who used butter for anal lube as an afterthought.

Naivete isn't something you can be educated out of. It requires bad experiences - like this one - before you're armed with the knowledge of what people are capable of. What you're missing is that many abuse victims already blame themselves for their mistakes, which is often why it goes unreported or as in this case, there's a huge delay in reporting it. All that attitude actually encourages is for people to clam up, for victims to come to terms with it by telling themselves, 'I deserved it'.

The first time it was rape but she kept going back which muddies the water of consent. Normal sexual behaviour doesn't exchange formal consent before having sex. If you go up to your girlfriend and squeeze her chest and kiss her neck you don't ask if it's okay first. If a woman comes to your home repeatedly knowing you're going to fuck her she is consenting to it by entering your home knowing it's going to happen. There are plenty of women who get off on men being rough with them, even violent to them (choking is very popular for some reason). If she keeps returning and engages with BDSM play and sending positive text messages after it's no longer rape. It's sketchy but consensual sex because she keeps engaging with it. If she wasn't willing to protect herself from this type of man then she's just rape bait with abuser after abusing taking advantage of her. Ultimately doing harm to herself and others around her by letting herself be abused.

How far does "don't dress like a prostitute" go? Ask your father. The family should be the judge of how their children dress in public and they should be raised to dress respectfully. You can go "my body, my choice" but it becomes "your body, my choice" if you want to ignore practical self care. The world is a nasty place, you're on a website documenting child rapists, animal sadists, lolcows raping and attacking random people among other things. You should know you can't prevent people like this from existing. So your only option is to take care of your safety as best you can and hope you never run into any one too nasty.

 

[brownsuagrbubbletea]

Not sure if it’s been shared but he posted on his blog

https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2025/01/breaking-silence.html?m=1

 

[Fcret]

I'm surprised no one has brought up Neil Gaiman's short story "Changes" (collected in Smoke and Mirrors) - a doctor invents a radical cancer treatment involving gene therapy which has the side-effect of allowing people to change biological sex more-or-less at-will. The end result is men lining up to change into women to go out and have sex with men (lots of talk about tits and clits and other anatomy in the actual text) and a major plot point being about how some people are very uncomfortable with male-brained women running around having sex with men.

what did he mean by this

Side Note: Any bets on the next Tumblr icon to fall? I could see John Green catching some kind of shit.

It'll be Hank Green if anything. Dude has the sex pest trappings - history of gender/sexuality confusion, male feminist, heckin loves science, and terminally online. John Green seems like a slightly overeducated normie - he sits around playing fucking FIFA, belongs to a mainline protestant church, and rarely seems to engage with his fans (in contrast to Hank).

Not saying it's impossible but of the Green brothers I'd put my money on Hank being the sex pest before John.

the most shocking thing is how heavily tied into scientology his family is and thats not brought up ever

A large proportion of SF authors either have a scientology background or an LDS background. LDS is because of Card and Hickman sneaking Mormon allegory into their works and thus elevating the status of genre fiction in the Mormonverse but scientology is a little more sinister...

One of the most common break-out points for new authors that get them noticed by publishers is Writers of the Future. This is a yearly short-story contest started by Hubbard in the 80s (as I'm sure everyone knows, L. Ron Hubbard was originally a science-fiction writer). Even after his death, the contest is still managed by his estate with help from the Church of Scientology (although they claim to be mere financiers). This means that the jumping off point for hundreds of authors is a contest where if you place you literally rub elbows with scientology gay ops. And even beyond that - a ton of the SF magazines back in the day were run by out-and-out scientologists.

 

[Terfmaster9000]

One of the Green Brothers is long overdue to be outed as some kind of horrible pest of some kind using progressivism as a mask.

Both.

Not sure if it’s been shared but he posted on his blog

https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2025/01/breaking-silence.html?m=1

Shouldn't an author know better than to burry the most important part of the message (I did NOT sexually assault those women!) in the last fifth of the writing?

 

[Steam Deck Verified]

Not sure if it’s been shared but he posted on his blog

https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2025/01/breaking-silence.html?m=1

Like most of us, I’m learning, and I'm trying to do the work needed, and I know that that's not an overnight process. I hope that with the help of good people, I'll continue to grow. I understand that not everyone will believe me or even care what I say but I’ll be doing the work anyway, for myself, my family and the people I love. I will be doing my very best to deserve their trust, as well as the trust of my readers.

Nigga is 64 and still needing to learn and grow? lmao. Also laughable that he's one of the most terminally online fandom-stoking authors yet suddenly didn't think it felt right to talk about things online.

Nothing more to be expected from a guy who hopped on Tumblr as a middle aged man and asked his underage fans to post themselves reading his books while in the bath. Hmm, also raped a girl while in the bath. Nothing suspicious there.

 

[Judge Holden]

Not sure if it’s been shared but he posted on his blog

https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2025/01/breaking-silence.html?m=1

Before I read it here is my reaction to its contents...

Now lets check out the excuses.

Over the past many months, I have watched the stories circulating the internet about me with horror and dismay. I’ve stayed quiet until now, both out of respect for the people who were sharing their stories and out of a desire not to draw even more attention to a lot of misinformation. I've always tried to be a private person, and felt increasingly that social media was the wrong place to talk about important personal matters. I've now reached the point where I feel that I should say something.

As I read through this latest collection of accounts, there 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 far from a perfect person, but I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone. Ever.

I went back to read the messages I exchanged with the women around and following the occasions that have subsequently been reported as being abusive. These messages read now as they did when I received them – of two people enjoying entirely consensual sexual relationships and wanting to see one another again. At the time I was in those relationships, they seemed positive and happy on both sides.

And I also realise, looking through them, years later, that I could have and should have done so much better. I was emotionally unavailable while being sexually available, self-focused and not as thoughtful as I could or should have been. I was obviously careless with people's hearts and feelings, and that's something that I really, deeply regret. It was selfish of me. I was caught up in my own story and I ignored other people's.

I’ve spent some months now taking a long, hard look at who I have been and how I have made people feel.

Like most of us, I’m learning, and I'm trying to do the work needed, and I know that that's not an overnight process. I hope that with the help of good people, I'll continue to grow. I understand that not everyone will believe me or even care what I say but I’ll be doing the work anyway, for myself, my family and the people I love. I will be doing my very best to deserve their trust, as well as the trust of my readers.

At the same time, as I reflect on my past – and as I re-review everything that actually happened as opposed to what is being alleged – I don't accept there was any abuse. To repeat, I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone.

Some of the horrible stories now being told simply never happened, while others have been so distorted from what actually took place that they bear no relationship to reality. I am prepared to take responsibility for any missteps I made. I’m not willing to turn my back on the truth, and I can't accept being described as someone I am not, and cannot and will not admit to doing things I didn't do.

TLDR He is pulling a "only some of these accusations are true guiz so pls dont cancel me" along with a hefty serving of "Well golly gee I thought the crying lady I assfucked and forced to suck the shit off my cock was into it" as well as some straight up "pls im just a smol bean who wants to grow and improve".

 

[Francesco DeIIamorte]

It'll be Hank

John and Cara Delvigne were getting a bit too comfy on their couch during the vlogs they shot whilst filming Paper Towns.

e - why do I know this bullshit fml