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

 

[Mukhrani]

By your logic, if you left the house for the night, even locked all your doors and closed all your windows, and I came round, broke in and robbed you blind, you would be partially responsible for getting robbed because you were stupid enough to have a nice looking house. How about you make yourself look like a poorfag like a sensible human being?

I mean I actually agree with this. Don't wear Gucci in the ghetto (or just don't wear it at all) Actually loaded people regularly make themselves looks like 'poorfags' because when you're out in public being recognized as rich makes you a target. They dress up for the gala or the country club, not to go to the grocery store. If you're walking through a gypsy encampment, bring a fake wallet. If you buy a really nice house filled with expensive things make sure it's in a protected location with security. There's a constant confusion between the idealized idea of what society ought to be and the sensible precautions that anyone should be taking to better survive in the one that actually exists. Should peoples houses be robbed? No. But they fucking are. So try to make them harder to rob. And if someone builds a mansion filled with expensive family heirlooms at the edge of the ghetto with no security system - yeah it sucks when it inevitably gets robbed. But they were also very stupid for doing that.

As an aside, I hope Gaiman gets some soap on a roap. I would really hate to hear about him getting assraped to death. It's a sensible precaution - work on your grip strength, Neil! Hold on to that rope for dear life! You're a scrawny guy.

 

[God of Nothing]

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

In the case of male feminists, it's just an inherent contradiction. If a man really thinks women his equal, aside from all the ridiculous rhetoric these days from feminist ideology, he doesn't see the need to be an "ally" in the first place. Even the most white knighty mi'lady faggots don't call themselves male feminists. They just say that's how women should be treated, ignoring the cognitive dissonance that they have to protect those "equal" to them.

 

[CowPox]

Does Neil or Anthony Cumia have the worse acne?

 

[Drain Todger]

Neil Gayman is a smelly little raper? I'm shocked. Almost too shocked for words.

 

[OttoWest]

Response from Gaiman

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.

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[Otterly]

Now, has the cultural zeitgeist changed enough the past few months so that Trooning out will make him less likely to be eviscerated by the media or more?

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

TLDR He is pulling a "only some of these accusations are true guiz so pls dont cancel me"

The chutzpah of this dork

I’m far from a perfect person, but I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone. Ever.

"Ok it happened, but TECHNICALLY it wasn't rape " - dork rapist

I think he's done here. If he had been able to deny knowing or meeting these women, maybe he would have been ok. But he only denies raping them, which means he isn't denying all of the other disgusting and horrible things he did to those women. Amazon Prime and other big media corps probably have lawyers working on cancelling their associations with Gaiman rn.

 

[Bonesjones]

i find it extremely interesting how Neil, despite his parents being the top scientologists since before he was born, still found time to give him a Bar Mitzvah, a ceremony that you only get after reading from the torah, a religious book in an entirely different language. really makes you think

You should read the Talmud, they knowingly fake convert to other religions all the time.

i know thats the obvious take but i don't believe it, unless every jewish person ever has been diddled

Someone has never heard of metzitzah b'peh, oral circumcision.

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:

Hey look a jew hiding her obvious jew name with a slightly less obvious jewish codename.

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...

An open secret is organizations buying up ten to hundreds of thousands of copies to put an authors name out prominently. It's done in every form of media. Religious groups have a perfect inbuilt bias to kick off a career.

 

[Overly Serious]

I mean I actually agree with this. Don't wear Gucci in the ghetto (or just don't wear it at all) Actually loaded people regularly make themselves looks like 'poorfags' because when you're out in public being recognized as rich makes you a target. They dress up for the gala or the country club, not to go to the grocery store. If you're walking through a gypsy encampment, bring a fake wallet. If you buy a really nice house filled with expensive things make sure it's in a protected location with security. There's a constant confusion between the idealized idea of what society ought to be and the sensible precautions that anyone should be taking to better survive in the one that actually exists. Should peoples houses be robbed? No. But they fucking are. So try to make them harder to rob. And if someone builds a mansion filled with expensive family heirlooms at the edge of the ghetto with no security system - yeah it sucks when it inevitably gets robbed. But they were also very stupid for doing that.

It's worth re-iterating the original point as well. It wasn't that a young woman was to blame for being raped. It was that unless you accept how your behaviour made you vulnerable (if it did) then you wont learn and will continue to be a victim. Nobody blames a young and vulnerable girl in financial distress and estranged from her family for being taken advantage of. They're just saying you need to learn from it and take responsibility for the things you can control. We're not talking "shouldn't wear tight jeans" here. We're talking repeatedly sending your abuser messages encouraging them and thanking them for the abuse, voluntarily going back for more, etc. A vulnerable young woman can be manipulated into that sort of behaviour and it's not a lack of sympathy or about blaming them for being vulnerable. It's a commentary on how you can stop being vulnerable and that starts with looking at the things that are in your power to change.

 

[OrangeJuliusEvola]

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

Not only that, but artists and the comic medium really did the heavy lifting in what Gaiman's authorial weaknesses are, namely descriptive prose and pacing. A purely literary Sandman would be weighted down with excess purple prose and twee internal dialogue and physical description. Morpheus would be some Emo godlike being with the constant emotional maturity of a sixteen year old who's read too much Victorian fiction instead of a mysterious shape-shifter that's silently doing things in very different expressions depending on the artist handling the depictions and panel framing. In fact, towards the end of the series, that became somewhat lampshaded in the plot by other characters, that behind the timeless quiet gothic grandeur of the visual presentation, at the core he was sort of a shallow Emo kid in how he acted.

 

[Strix454]

From Gaiman's message:

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.

Just because he wrote that, he IMO deserves anything that happens to him in the aftermath of this. The guy has always been a smug, insufferable prick and writing shit like that shows his awfulness in all its glory. He just about does the "you need to do better senator" line from that show on himself in that paragraph. I've always wondered if there was a real human being within his asshole upper-class british act.....and no, there isn't. Not one little bit of anything real in this humanoid.

I'm sure he thinks he can use smooth words to get out of this situation. But I don't see that working. Or at least I hope so.

 

[WelperHelper99]

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".

This part right here:
I’ve spent some months now taking a long, hard look at who I have been and how I have made people feel.
Bro this is a YouTube apology for rape. Logan Paul couldn't write this shit.

 

[KingNothing]

https://archive.ph/8JC1q

https://arkhavencomics.com/2025/01/14/the-fall-of-neil-gaiman/

I’ve said this before and I’m saying it now. Power does not corrupt. Power only reveals. If you gain power you will do the things you always wanted to.



It’s finally happened. It was fascinating to watch the system failing to protect one of its chosen own.



It tried for a while. After all, there were too many high-cost projects with Gaiman’s name inextricably attached to them. It’s been possible to bury revolting antics before. It was certainly worth a try. Requests and demands were made of social media. Google’s algorithms were particularly determined to suppress. Facebook’s was worse but I will have to grant that X didn’t provide him any noticeable cover and that was pretty much all it took.



Vulture (how appropriate) has finally published an article detailing Neil Gaiman’s sadistic depravity. I won’t go into details of that here. I will only say that his tastes are as vicious as they are degrading. He demonstrates the behavior of a rapist who was trained in how to control the vulnerable by a cult. Scientology taught him well.



This was Gaiman after he gained power.



His behavior before gaining power was some of the most batshit delusional Gamma Male behavior I’ve ever heard of.

Neil Gaiman had an extraordinary career. And I mean that literally. It was Extra Ordinary.



Writers who’ve hit it big all have the same complaint. Some rando will come up to them and make the following offer; “I’ve got this absolutely amazing idea for a story. Here’s the deal, I’ll tell you about the idea, then you write the book and then we split the money.” Gaiman’s biggest successes were in getting people to actually do that for him. Anyone who’s read Terry Pratchett knows damn good and well who did all of the heavy lifting in Good Omens. Even Gaiman admitted it. As for Sandman, the most amazing comic book of all time, how much of that comic’s success was due to the artwork? Without Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Jill Thompson, Shawn McManus, Marc Hempel, Bryan Talbot, and Michael Zulli, would anyone have the vivid impressions of that title that they do? They were the real storytellers, Gaiman just had the ‘amazing idea.’ Which half the time were retreads of somebody else’s work.



As for the King of Dreams, let’s be honest here, Morpheus was nothing more than a Mary Sue and a pretty obvious one at that. And one that no one can look at now without seeing the true horror it was masking. Sandman is about to be swept under the rug alongside his “creator.”



It is over. It is ended.

 

[Xerxes IX]

ust because he wrote that, he IMO deserves anything that happens to him in the aftermath of this. The guy has always been a smug, insufferable prick and writing shit like that shows his awfulness in all its glory. He just about does the "you need to do better senator" line from that show on himself in that paragraph. I've always wondered if there was a real human being within his asshole upper-class british act.....and no, there isn't. Not one little bit of anything real in this humanoid.

I'm sure he thinks he can use smooth words to get out of this situation. But I don't see that working. Or at least I hope so.

Nah I think the aggravating factors of an outspoken progressive raping a self identified lesbian and forcing her to eat piss shit and vomit, not to mention his son being inappropriately close to it all are enough to bury him, elocution be damned. This smarmy fuck isn't getting out of this easily.

 

[FedPostalService]

If Gaiman had come out and said “all bitches be hoes, hate the game not the player” I’d actually have respected him and would have supported his new life a man of colour.

 

[Judge Holden]

He just about does the "you need to do better senator" line from that show on himself in that paragraph

Nigga you read my cotton picking mind. Was straight up gonna use a clip of that shit but there was nothing on youtube usable on my earlier comment on it.

This part right here:
I’ve spent some months now taking a long, hard look at who I have been and how I have made people feel.
Bro this is a YouTube apology for rape. Logan Paul couldn't write this shit.

Maybe he should bust out the Ukulele

Nah I think the aggravating factors of an outspoken progressive raping a self identified lesbian and forcing her to eat piss shit and vomit, not to mention his son being inappropriately close to it all are enough to bury him, elocution be damned. This smarmy fuck isn't getting out of this easily.

Insneed.

As I said before IF this is a case of a bunch of lying skanks defaming his good name, he is getting what he fucking deserves for joining and cheering on so many witch hunts and ideological purges

IF however these accusations are legit, then he deserves infinitely fucking worse.....Anne Frankly I am inclined to believe the accusers based both on how many of them there are and gaiman's lil explainer piece there.

 

[Overly Serious]

Maybe he should bust out the Ukulele
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I have no idea what I am looking at but I feel I am missing something amazing.

 

[KingNothing]

I have no idea what I am looking at but I feel I am missing something amazing.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/make-this-the-worst-thread-on-the-website.209093/post-20308347

 

[Judge Holden]

I have no idea what I am looking at but I feel I am missing something amazing.

Oh my nigga......we have such sights to show you

To give the preamble, a boring ugly youtube lady with 10 million subscribers at one point was outed as grooming and creeping over underaged fans among a bunch other asshole and scumfuck antics.

Given how she was a musical youtuber she decided her best course of action was to apologise via song while playing the Ukulele. For Ten Minutes.

EDIT: Here's the article thread we had on her back in the day

 

[Haloperidol]

I may not care for his writing but an author is well-trained to write a humble, remorseful statement with nothing behind it. Doesn’t matter—if you pursue unstable women and are into weird bdsm shit I still don’t like you whether it was consensual or not. Hard not to notice he didn’t deny any of that.