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

 

[Judge Holden]

At the very least, he and Palmer knew they weren't paying her.

Honestly its kinda sweet of her to adopt her husband's ancestry as her own

 

[OttoWest]

I don't think he has too much to fear legally, or about his career in the long term,

His career is over. He’s soon to be know as the guy who forced his side piece to suck the shit off his dick after he raped her. That’s radioactive on a Chernobyl level.

 

[isalaide]

I have so much I could say about all of this, but I'll leave it at this: I'm glad Terry Pratchett died before all this came to light.

 

[A Parroting Puppet]

"I fucked them and plenty of the shit they said is true, but uh, I didn't rape them, I just didn't give them bitches emotional support."

LOL, what the fuck angle is this?

"My only mistake is I should've been kinder (so they don't sperg out about it)!"

 

[sheepworldvizor]

This is reminding me of Max Landis tbh. Same tribe.

 

[Fcret]

The worst that will have happened with Moore is he said nigger under breath one time when he got cut in line at a Tesco or something.

It's only those that virtue signal the hardest that have skeletons to hide. So I don't anything will come out with ennis and the like except for a bad though they said to a friend once.

This. Moore is a weirdo hippie who openly drew porno comics about underage girls from Victorian/Edwardian children's books. Everyone knows what he's about and he openly scorns mainstream success and his works being adapted.

I also wouldn't be surprised if half the degenerate shit is just an elaborate PR psyop to keep him free from the normiesphere and he's secretly just a boring hippie guy who does boring hippie guy sex shit.

 

[TheHarbinger]

His career is over. He’s soon to be know as the guy who forced his side piece to suck the shit off his dick after he raped her. That’s radioactive on a Chernobyl level.

He'll be able to write under pen names or ghost author with his connections. There will be enough immoral losers in the entertainment industry to hire him and pay him. And there will still be adaptations of his work with the usual "separate the art from the artist" screaming from the media.

 

[Commander Suzdal]

For decades, Gaiman's had a reputation for being charming and magnanimous, even though his style on Twitter (and Tumblr, and Compuserve) is better described as smug and sanctimonious. You didn't even have to follow the guy to see his fans re-sharing his eloquent, ever so literary takedowns of ladiesman217 for the bigoted crime of saying "I hope the studios don't change too much from the comics in the latest Marvelslop."

And after all these years of the great Neil Gaiman lecturing us on behalf of the less fortunate, what takes him down? A 1998 Comics Journal interview someone found in the clearance bin, where Gaiman expresses some then-innocuous liberal opinion that's now taboo? A leaked e-mail where Gaiman pushes back on a sensitivity reader's note that every instance of "blackmail" and "blacklist" needs to be replaced with a searing indictment of white supremacy? Being the first person to stop clapping when the Eisners announce their newly-created Comics Creator With The Most Minority Identities category?

No - Gaiman sought out broke, broken women too weak to say "no" when a rich celebrity told them to lick the shit off his dick. It's fucking well karmic.

(And as for his takedowns ... wow, he must've slaved for hours over Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable for hours before settling on "trans women are women".)


Hey, Neil, if trans women are women, why didn't you rape any?

 

[NoReturn]

Hey, Neil, if trans women are women, why didn't you rape any?

Speaking of that author

 

[Bonesjones]

Speaking of that author
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Remember jews will always defend jews over anyone else until it starts to personally effect them too much.

 

[isalaide]

The often-traduced but inconveniently rarely-wrong Graham Linehan on the subject of Gaiman: https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/rest-in-infamy-you-haunted-castle

Rest In Infamy, You Haunted Castle
Why I believe the Neil Gaiman accusations
Graham Linehan
Jul 19, 2024

I only met Neil Gaiman once, at an upscale dinner party where Derren Brown had been hired to do magic tricks like in the old-timey days. Between astonishments, Gaiman and I withdrew to a quiet corner where I pretended to be pleased that he was giving me a signed copy of ‘Sandman’. One of the unexpected advantages of being cancelled is telling people who took part in my harassment what I really think about their work, but this was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, so I said the right things and we went back to being bamboozled by Brown’s invisible craft.

To give credit where it’s due, I later read Gaiman’s ‘Coraline’ to my kids which had them simultaneously terrified and hooked, and thanked him for it. Whatever my feelings about his earlier work, he was a real writer, practising his own invisible craft. From the evidence of that book, I thought he was probably a decent person too, an impression that continued until 2022, when we started to get into it over The Issue.

I may have asked why he wasn’t speaking out on behalf of JK Rowling, who was undergoing one of her regular cancellations for refusing to pander to the spoilt brats who loved her books but missed their meaning. A big name like his might have shifted the conversation and given her some much-needed support. He might perhaps have persuaded some of his fans to give the matter another look. This was when I assumed people like him acknowledged biological reality but worried about ‘coming out of the closet’, as it were. It took me years to realise that almost every celebrity mate of mine believed, or was pretending to believe, in the fashionable, American mind-cancer of ’gender’.

But back then, I was still astonished to find that he was a carrier of the virus, the mass delusion that by sheer coincidence, turned up after the arrival of the Internet. Whether it was Bill Bailey or Neil Hannon, Robin Ince or Matt Lucas, Arthur Mathews or Jimmy Mulville, it was always the same story. A sudden cloud of amnesia would form around my celebrity mates, a real peasouper, from which they suddenly could not see why we need female-only spaces, or why unhappy teenage girls will not find a miraculous cure for their woes in a double mastectomy. Far from sharing any of my urgency in the need to stop children from being irreversibly harmed in gender clinics, they instead downplayed, deflected and dismissed. “I never ask you to join in with my animal activism” grumbled Neil Hannon on one of the occasions I begged for his support.

“Couldn’t you pretend women and children are animals?” I thought.

My usual trajectory during these conversations saw me shifting from gobsmacked disbelief to fury and despair. The disloyalty made me angry, but knowing my friends did not care about their own daughters, wives, sisters and mothers was, and continues to be, destabilising in the extreme.

Gaiman went one step further. I can’t find the tweet, so I may be paraphrasing, but he said

"I hope you're kinder if your daughter ever hopes to transition."

I can think of no uglier thing to say to a parent. For girls, ‘transition’ means double mastectomies in their teens, hysterectomies in their mid-twenties, early menopause and a four times greater chance of having a heart attack than males of the same age. To have this decaying goth wish that horror on my daughter was more than I could bear. I wanted to rip his throat out.

Like a pair of grappling cowboys falling off a rooftop, our fight spilled into email. I sent Gaiman this article about the Tavistock. It was clear when he wrote back that he hadn’t absorbed it Like most celebrities in this fight, he appeared to have lost the ability to read.


“As I said before Graham, I hope that you'd be kinder if it was one of your kids who wanted to transition. “

He actually said it again. The piece was right there, detailing exactly what was happening to the children unlucky enough to wander through the Tavistock’s doors, and he chose to repeat that disgusting thing. Why?

That same year, just months before Gaiman was advising me on the value of kindness, a 22-year-old woman (‘Scarlett’ in the podcast) arrived at his Waiheke Island home in New Zealand for a babysitting job. Upon her arrival, she discovered that Gaiman’s wife of the time, Amanda Palmer, had suddenly remembered a sleepover, an appointment the child was apparently eager to attend.

So she and junior drove out of view, leaving the 23 -year-old Scarlett alone with Gaiman for the night. Within a few hours the 61-year-old man, without warning or invitation, appeared fully naked and slipped into the other end of her bath. Scarlett alleges that over the next three weeks, they embarked on a semi-consensual relationship, where Gaiman routinely ignored the boundaries she set. She alleges that he became angry when she would refuse these demands, used a belt to beat her, insisted she call him ‘Master’ and once sexually assaulted her so violently that she lost consciousness.

“… (the sex) was so painful and so violent that I fainted. I passed out, lost consciousness, ringing in the ears, black vision, the pain was celestial, you know, which is a strange word to use, but I couldn't even describe it in language. And when I regained consciousness and I was on the ground, I looked up and he was watching the rehearsals from Scotland of whatever they were filming, I don't fucking know. And he didn't even notice that I was passed out. And you know…there was blood. It was so so, so traumatic, and I asked him to stop. I said it was too much.”

Scarlett is a compelling witness despite, or because of, her contradictions. Certain things paint a picture of consent—she sexted Gaiman, to which he would send careful replies—and she laughs nervously when she talks about the alleged abuse. But when Gaiman’s side of the story is put to her, she turns cold as a knife and shows flashes of fury that she—in her telling—young, inexperienced and dazzled by Palmer and Gaiman’s fame and lifestyle, was used so casually and so brutally.

A few years back, I wrote about becoming a sort of Jessica Fletcher figure on Twitter. ‘Murder, She Wrote” but with paedophiles and predators. “Just as murderers seemed drawn to any location Jessica presented herself, “ I said. “My opining about women's rights and safety on Twitter appeared to attract the kind of men who can't sit still during a spelling bee.”


Among my adversaries was Peter Bright, the Ars Technica writer now doing twelve years for trying to buy two children to abuse. Luckily the children didn’t exist and the parents were actually FBI agents. Our exchange was brief and concerned safeguarding. I’m sure you’re all astonished to discover that he was against it.

Then there was ex-Labour MP Eric Joyce, who argued with me about the safety of mixed-sex loos in schools and was done for possessing the worst kind of child abuse images. More recently, I tangled with ‘Lexi’, who is now serving time for rape.

They all had one thing in common. They couldn’t leave alone those of us who were actively opposing the trans movement's assault on safeguarding, an assault that chimed nicely with their plans for the future. Each was returning to the scene of a crime not yet committed, each picking at a scab on their own character.

In 2018, at the height of #MeToo, Gaiman tweeted “On a day like today it’s worth saying, I believe survivors. Men must not close their eyes and minds to what happens to women in this world. We must fight, alongside them, for them to be believed, at the ballot box, and with art, and by listening, and change this world for the better.”

Well said. I certainly believe the women in ‘Master’. During my Jessica Fletcher period (a period which continues) no-one except Gaiman ever mentioned my kids. I think he knew it would cause me distress, and the second time he said it was just a twisting of the knife. Many of my colleagues in the media joined in with the trashing of my reputation, but Gaiman went that extra mile. I believe this is because he is a sadist. I think he is a man who finds pleasure in the suffering of others, and a man who does not see women and girls as fully human.

This was my final letter to him.

Dear Neil

I notice you’re still pretending you can’t read the Tavistock story. If you ever try and lay that curse on my kids again I will certainly share our exchange. Your privileged beliefs are harming children so to paraphrase Will Smith, keep their names out of your fucking mouth.

Thank you for giving me one last chance to say that JK Rowling will be remembered as a hero and you as a traitor to the kids who loved your books.

Rest in infamy, you haunted castle.

All the best,

Graham.

 

[The Judean People's Front]

As someone who really loved American Gods back in the day (well, the first half, if I'm honest), my personal "Fuck Gaiman" moment was when he absolutely shat all over Pratchett's masterpiece by making the celestial beings fuck each other in his solo-written season 2 of Good Omens.

I appreciate other people's insight on this thread, because I tried so hard to like a lot of his other work and it all felt so hollow and empty. Lots of words, little substance. Outside of lots of rape.

I had no idea he was raised a Scientologist with high ranking parents; the comparison of his writing to Hubbard kinda stopped me in my tracks. The similarity in style (all flash, no substance) is kinda stunning if you've ever been (un)fortunate to read some of Hubbard's sci fi.

It's fascinating that this man wrote for so many years about women being enslaved and raped and it was interpreted as him being empathetic towards women. What the fuck, fellow women?

 

[NoReturn]

So here's something:

It's fascinating that this man wrote for so many years about women being enslaved and raped and it was interpreted as him being empathetic towards women. What the fuck, fellow women?

 

[TheRedChair]

J Michael Straszinski is another example of a well regarded nerd facing writer/producer from around the same time as Gaiman's rise, who was fully online with fans since the 90's. But somehow never made it weird. Of course he is also a generation older than Gaiman.

STRONGLY DISAGREE. He a god damn leftist woke faggot.

 

[isalaide]

It's fascinating that this man wrote for so many years about women being enslaved and raped and it was interpreted as him being empathetic towards women. What the fuck, fellow women?

Not me, and I have over the years been taken to task by so many people, women included, over my firm dislike of all his work and my firm belief that it all reeked of snidely entitled male wish-fulfilment and Manic Pixie Dream Girl As Literal Object, which I was always told was ROMANCE and REAL FEELING and was my heart a stone. (Yes, but not because I think Sandman is a heap of sweaty bollocks.)

It's not empathy when you read it and you can tell the writer only had one hand on the keyboard.

 

[Captain Dipshit]

The accusations are over the top and sound made up but still wouldn't surprise me if true. Imagining Neil saying those things is funny, surprised the victim of his supposed rape didn't just bust out laughing when she heard him etc.

Just finished the article and nothing seems implausible or over the top to me.

 

[Strix454]

This. Moore is a weirdo hippie who openly drew porno comics about underage girls from Victorian/Edwardian children's books. Everyone knows what he's about and he openly scorns mainstream success and his works being adapted.

I also wouldn't be surprised if half the degenerate shit is just an elaborate PR psyop to keep him free from the normiesphere and he's secretly just a boring hippie guy who does boring hippie guy sex shit.

Alan Moore ceased being a person at some point in the early 1990s. Ever since then, he has been playing his self-invented character of Alan Moore. The anarchist magical warlock guy trying too hard to show how "weird" he is. Under all the BS and the acting, there is these days just nothing.

But you hit on his ultimate defense strategy. There is no way to really hurt him or even touch him because he doesn't care about mainstream employment or even money. I doubt he would really care much if his public reputation was utterly destroyed. He doesn't have TV shows to be destroyed or a job at a mainstream publisher to lose.

I think as you suggest the other thing he does is mostly "swim" with his fellow boomer hippies doing what they do rather than venturing out to play with strangers.

 

[The Judean People's Front]

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That's a good write up, and it reminded me that he and Tori Amos are very close.

He wrote a character based on her, she talks about him in Tear in Your hand (if you need me/ me and Neil will be / hanging out with the Dream King / Neil says hi, by the way)

She's also a spokesperson for RAINN. I'll be very interested in how she handles this as an old school fan.

 

[Judge Holden]

Alan Moore ceased being a person at some point in the early 1990s. Ever since then, he has been playing his self-invented character of Alan Moore. The anarchist magical warlock guy trying too hard to show how "weird" he is. Under all the BS and the acting, there is these days just nothing.

But you hit on his ultimate defense strategy. There is no way to really hurt him or even touch him because he doesn't care about mainstream employment or even money. I doubt he would really care much if his public reputation was utterly destroyed. He doesn't have TV shows to be destroyed or a job at a mainstream publisher to lose.

I think as you suggest the other thing he does is mostly "swim" with his fellow boomer hippies doing what they do rather than venturing out to play with strangers.

Gonna make a bit of a reach here. The whole "reclusive eccentric who intentionally dresses like a clown and acts extremely weird yet is universally respected because of work he did decades ago despite some phenomenally sketchy things he has said/written over the years" thing he has going is something I have seen before in bongland...


Sure. Maybe he is just an antisocial nerd putting up a retarded front to keep fans and asspatters at arms length while he enjoys kinda retirement. But if it turns out he got some sickfuck shit he has been keeping on the down low, I will not be even remotely surprised.

 

[Mikoyan]

Gonna make a bit of a reach here. The whole "reclusive eccentric who intentionally dresses like a clown and acts extremely weird yet is universally respected because of work he did decades ago despite some phenomenally sketchy things he has said/written over the years" thing he has going is something I have seen before in bongland...

Astute, though I don't think anyone would've called Jimmy a recluse, and certainly not to Moore's extent.