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]

I think Moore is safe. To be a sex pest, you need to meet people to have sex with, and Moore is an antisocial misanthrope who hates everybody. There's a reason why his ex-wife lesbian cucked him. Garth Ennis is too busy seething from all the times he was mistaken for Warren Ellis.

Which is why my best bet if Allah hears my prayers is that he was either doing bad shit back in the 80s when degenerate assfuckery was all the rage in the sphere he was not quite such a hermit in at the time, or he has been collecting cheese pizza since web 1.0

I imagine Moore inviting horny fangirls to some super sikret midnight ritual which turns out to be just a ritual performed at the gibbous phase of the moon as detailed in Ars Goethica and leaves girls confused at what the hell was that supposed to be, as they weren't expecting that.

Gotta be honest, even if he aint a sickfuck creeper I seriously fucking doubt his "lol guiz im actually a real wizard lol im so kooky and esoteric and weird lol" schtick is much more than an affected personality augmentation to make his boring ass appear interesting to literal/figurative 14 year olds. Its literally the exact same schtck you see in the fuggos who make up the "witchcraft/wicca" sphere, and should be treated as such.

 

[DrNow]

I’m just here to say fuck sickos, keep it of age, consenting and alive. I hate sickos as much as I love Ozzy, so I’m about to mix some Mountain Dew and red wine in solidarity with all sicko victims. Fuck gaiman, that’s what’s up thread.

 

[Scrumption]

autistically obnoxious male feminist tryhards on twitter and deeply connected with a bunch of movie people like Rian Johnson and others got outed as a rapist just before #MeToo took off and his entire career was torched overnight

Anyone have a master list of feminist democrat/left Hollywood type figures who have since been outed as rapists?

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

They would not. If people like that with money need someone on short notice, there is a whole system to help them solve problems like that. The reason you specially hire the mentally ill BPD babysitter is to serve other needs. If you specially hire someone who really needs the money and is practically speaking disposable when its over, it kind of has "sleazy guy" marks all over it. The whole extended story of how she was selected and hired and everything about her just points to something really wrong.

From a newspaper interview with the dork rapist in 2023:

He wrote The Ocean… for his wife, the flamboyant punk/cabaret singer Amanda Palmer. They split up in November, prompting a deluge of online gossip and unwanted advice from newspaper pundits. (Some, ignorantly, blamed the fact that theirs had been an open marriage.)

See, you're just "ignorant" if you see anything weird about a "marriage" where both parties are open to fucking other people and want you to know they are. Stop being ignorant, incel prudes

Or, it could be that an "open marriage" is a big red flag for sex pests and predators in general. Good people don't fuck other people when they're married. Amanda Palmer seems like the kind of narcissist who would sell this disgusting arrangement as some kind of feminist liberation, when it was actually camouflage for two nasty and dysfunctional abusers to enable each other:

On one of our very first dates we discussed monogamy, how neneither of us were fans of it. We’ve had an open marriage ever since. Does it work? Hell, yeah! The idea of only ever fooling around with one other person until the end of time has always been terrifying to me, and with Neil, too, I think

If you're a 40 year old woman or a 50something man who is "terrified" of not being allowed to "fool around" with randos instead of the person you "love" and the parent of your child, there's something deeply wrong with you and that wrongness will manifest itself in your treatment of other people.

Gaiman and Palmer were never cool, they're a pair of ugly narcissists who see vulnerable young women - their fans - as objects to be used as free labor or as fuck toys. These two deserve each other.

 

[Hitman One]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c247nnl71gdo

Season three of Prime Video's Good Omens will now comprise one 90-minute episode, with Gaiman no longer involved.

PFFFFTHAHAAHAHHAHAHA OH NO NO NO NO NO HAHAHAHA faggot angel David "my kid's a tranny" Tennant enjoyers BLOWN THE FUCK OUT

 

[FedPostalService]

Oh sure there is the schadenfreude aspect at play here, but as mentioned before even if he is entirely honest in his response the whole situation and his sexual predilections that he has now confirmed to be true one way or another are still phenomenally skeezy and slimy as all hell. When combined with the near dozen women speaking out as well as the sketchy as hell non-response from Gaiman I am left with either...

1. A spontaneous conspiracy being formed by spurned consensual partners who were all for being abused and degraded as part of some sex game while also not being paid for being joint nannies/fucktoys until years later where they decide to open themselves up to the risk of defamation lawsuits by lying about the entirely innocent mr gaiman, lawsuits that he is magnanimously not starting up despite having both wealth and a very clear motive to do so, not to mention months to prepare
2. The women were not lying, and the sexually degenerate creeper who gets off on hurting and controlling women was acting entirely according to his nature and intentionally targeting the most easily manipulated and emotionally weak women he could find to feed his coomer sex slave fantasies, and Gaiman's whimpering response is literally all he can do to vainly cover his ass at this point

If he is innocent, he has been singularly dedicated in making himself look guilty to the point where he deserves this shit for that alone, before we even factor in how he has gleefully been the first to throw stones and lead on mobs against those accused of no-no words and thoughts. If he is guilty....and yeah I straight up think he is fucking guilty at this stage...I hope this shit is just the preamble of whats coming for him next

If I was a betting man, which I am, I bet Amanda rounded them all up to help with the divorce and didn’t realise that getting a bunch of BDP girls together would not only turn everything into rape but also set everything she owns on fire and whilst also throwing her under the bus.

 

[Goodbye Horses]

To be very generous to Moore he was the writer of the comic not the artist.

The artist is his wife, and given her previous works I've always assumed the subject matter was more due to her than him.

 

[sheepworldvizor]

Max Landis

Counterpoint, from Lax himself:

 

[Strix454]

I'll note that Amanda Palmer in particular is big into "voluntary labor" where you just ask whoever is there to do whatever you need done for cheap or even free.
She got into trouble for this in the past when she would ask fans to perform music during her concerts without compensation. Obviously, if you're Neil Gaiman's millionare wife, that strikes the wrong cord.
She made a whole Ted talk on this.
So picking a random homeless drifter to be her babysitter is kind of expected for her.

I didn't really know much about her. But her TED talk was rather illuminating. She is really sleazy in her own right. There is a point in the TED talks where she talks about staying with an undocumented family from Honduras and sleeping in their beds while they slept on the floor. And how that was great because she makes music.

To me, she came across as a completely predatory sort of rich celebrity grifter who had an obvious kink of "sex with strangers". She also seemed like exactly the type that would set up Neil with women. When they got married, she seems to have been in her 30s while he was in his mid-50s. He was at creepy old man status and would have needed the help

I would agree that her picking up homeless drifter woman seems completely in character. Either for herself or for Neil or just as slave labor. She is really just awful. She is also was really the perfect wife for him. They even got married at the home of Michael Chabon which is appropriately pretentious and awful.

Or, it could be that an "open marriage" is a big red flag for sex pests and predators in general.

An "open marriage" between a man in his 50s and a 30-something status-obsessed social climbing theater kid graduate of Wesleyan tells its own story. It reminds me of when Laurie Anderson married Lou Reed. A marriage more about status and career and "performance art" than any thought of sex.

 

[Lucas Silva #4903141]

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

Funny thing is that I asked Grok about Max Landis the other day, I had forgotten about that shitshow. For anyone not remembering the accusations against that obnoxious faggot:

Allegations of Sexual and Emotional Abuse:

• Multiple Accusations: In 2019, eight women came forward with allegations against Landis in an extensive report by The Daily Beast. These accusations ranged from emotional manipulation to physical and sexual abuse.
  • From Web Results: The accusations included claims of sexual assault, rape, emotional abuse, and on-set harassment. Some women described incidents where Landis allegedly forced them into sexual situations, used his influence to manipulate or control them, and even physically assaulted them (like choking).
  • From Web Results: Specific instances included:
    • An ex-girlfriend, Dani Manning, stated that Landis would control her eating habits and physically assaulted her on multiple occasions.
    • Another woman, referred to as Julie, claimed that Landis repeatedly raped her during their relationship.
    • There were accounts of inappropriate behavior on movie sets, where Landis allegedly made lewd comments or engaged in unwanted physical contact.
• Public Reaction and Professional Fallout:
  • From Web Results: Following these revelations, Max Landis was dropped by his management at Writ Large Management. Projects like "Shadow in the Cloud" and "Deeper" saw him removed or distanced from production roles.
  • From X Posts: There's been public condemnation from peers and former associates. For example, Anna Akana, who worked with Landis, has openly criticized him on social media, reinforcing the narrative of his abusive behavior.
• RedLetterMedia's Response:
  • From Web Results and X Posts: RedLetterMedia, a YouTube channel known for its film reviews and content, unlisted videos featuring Landis due to these allegations. This action was in line with many in the industry distancing themselves from him. RedLetterMedia's move was not just a disassociation but also an acknowledgment of the severity of the accusations against him.

Impact on Career:

• Professional Consequences: After the accusations, Landis's career in Hollywood significantly stalled. He was no longer involved in high-profile projects, and his presence in the public eye diminished.
• Public Apology and Attempts at Comeback: There were reports of Landis attempting a comeback with "Glass Planet Consulting," a venture aimed at creative consulting for screenwriters, but this was met with criticism, particularly given the timing and the nature of his previous actions.

Relevant tweets:

https://x.com/AnnaAkana/status/1433577418279698439

https://x.com/MarlowNYC/status/1140962228566417408 (part of a thread)

https://x.com/Variety/status/1141413071929446400

Max Landis dropped by manager following sexual assault allegations

He has his own thread here. Going through the highlights I remembered my post from that thread where I caught Landis namedropping kiwifarms.

Anyways, lol Neil Gaiman's tweet from 2018:

https://x.com/neilhimself/status/1045719624636149760

On a day like today it’s worth saying, I believe survivors. Men must not close our 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 & with art & by listening, and change this world for the better.

 

[The Judean People's Front]

Both His sisters are involved in the Church. He went to record to say he respects and feels some kind of kinship to his sister's religion

You guys disagreeing with me have no idea how Scientology as an org works. He said that stuff so he could still hang out with his Sisters and not get declared an SP like his Dad. They'll shun your ass if you leave the church and speak ill of it, but there's no evidence of his giving money to Scientology past, ok, maybe 2007 when his wife was a Scientologist and you could make the argument that their money meant he "contributed" in some sideways way. But Scientology doesn't like, take care of its own unless you're CURRENTLY giving them tons of money. Membership in Scientology isn't like being Christian - you aren't a Scientologist if the church isn't getting your cash, and this is an explicit part of the religion.

This idea Scientologists will protect him and help him get on his feet is frankly retarded. If anything, they'd love to show "what happens" when you leave Scientology, just like any good cult. Oh Neil did a bad thing? Too bad bc Scientology could have helped him. I bet there are internal documents that say exactly that, cause they love to dunk on ex-members as if it somehow proves something.

You don't shit talk Scientology as an ex Scientologist because they will fuck your life up - and if you aren't Leah Remini and ready for that, it's prob not fun. But that proves absolutely nothing about his being a secret Scientologist or something.

Adding: as far as the claim.that his production company uses a Scientology address? You guys know how many producers/directors/film types are in Scientology? It's a lot.

The idea that Neil is some secret Scientology prince is the stupidest thing I've read on this site. Scientology doesn't hide its stars. Up until VERY recently they would have shouted from the rooftops that Neil Nerdgod Gaiman was one of theirs.

 

[Dr. Butt]

well thats a complete lie, i assumed that it was like you described meanwhile its closer to if we found out Neil Gaiman is a stage name for Hunter Biden. Like Neil was born and presumably raised similar to Kim Jong Un, his parents were the top dogs of a major religion and probably was having grown adults call him "master" at the age of 5, or at the very least being told not to refer to his servants as "slaves" at that age.

What?? I'm not defending an ass-rapist. I'm saying everything about him is because of his religion. It is far more central to his being than he led the public to believe.

 

[NoReturn]

The book of the same name is very different (and much shitter).

Even the ending is different. In the book there's a "happily ever after", but in the book it's more depressing.

I looked into this and apparently David was declared an SP (interesting reason why--see below), but remained a devoted Scientologist and paid his way back into their good graces.

Even if he hadn't, Free Zoners and "Independant Scientologists" exist. Just because you're out of the church doesn't mean you necessarily stop doing all the stuff.

I wish someone in government had some real balls, and took a look at scientology again (even if for their tax exempt status). All the while, scientology is buying up more and more real estate across America to fill up their coffers. Its kind of alarming with how much land they are technically buying, with little to no function/service to show for it.

This idea Scientologists will protect him and help him get on his feet is frankly retarded. If anything, they'd love to show "what happens" when you leave Scientology, just like any good cult. Oh Neil did a bad thing? Too bad bc Scientology could have helped him. I bet there are internal documents that's say exactly that, cause they love to dunk on ex-members as if it somehow proves something.

This thread gave me Scientology dreams last night. Thanks, guys.

IDK what it is, but there's obviously a real link between being considered high up in scientology and also being associated with sexual assault. Is it just a power thing? My personal conspiracy is that members are encouraged/manipulated into committing a crime like this, so little man David M has kompromot, in case they try to leave. The best thing Leah remini ever did was leave before they could really sink their fangs in her.

It's not just a power thing, but it is a factor. To Scientologists, anything you do is your responsibility and even children are just adults in child bodies. So there's even a possibility that when Gaiman says he believed there was consent, he's being sneaky with the language (or even fooling himself ) because Scientologists believe you choose to put yourself in these situations.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

What?? I'm not defending an ass-rapist. I'm saying everything about him is because of his religion. It is far more central to his being than he led the public to believe.

i apologize for my weird comment. i was just saying that because he was so high up his connection to the religion wouldn't be like a regular churchgoer. his dad basically was their leader in the entire uk growing up. it was like he was the mayors son in a town of about 2000 people. he could get away with anything.

 

[Kulee Baba]

You guys disagreeing with me have no idea how Scientology as an org works. He said that stuff so he could still hang out with his Sisters and no get declared an SP like his Dad. They'll shun your ass if you leave the church and speak ill of it, but there's no evidence of his giving money to Scientology past, ok maybe 2007 when his wife was a Scientologist and you could make the argument that their money meant he "contributed" in some sideways way. But Scientology doesn't like, take care of its own unless you're CURRENTLY giving them tons of money. Membership in Scientology isn't like being Christian - you aren't a Scientologist of the church isn't getting your cash, and this is an explicit part of the religion.

This idea Scientologists will protect him and help him get on his feet is frankly retarded. If anything, they'd love to show "what happens" when you leave Scientology, just like any good cult. Oh Neil did a bad thing? Too bad bc Scientology could have helped him. I bet there are internal documents that's say exactly that, cause they love to dunk on ex-members as if it somehow proves something.

You don't shit talk Scientology as an ex Scientologist because they will fuck your life up and if you aren't Leah Remini and ready for that, it's prob not fun. But that proves absolutely nothing about his being a secret Scientologist or something.

I have no qualms with your logic but I do suspect a figure like Gaiman would still be contributing to Scientology just in some indirect ways.

Will Smith and Jada Plinkett Smith are officially not Scientologists. But they did fund a Private School which has been alleged had Scientologist bullshit in the curriculum which led to Jada admitting she studied Dianetics. https://www.newsweek.com/will-smith...al-scientology-says-former-headmaster-1520730

Scientology has had its well deserved stigma attached to it long before the infamous Tom Cruise video and the South Park episodes. It just makes sense you have closeted members who publicly want to be unaffiliated. Instead of signing checks to Scientology and being members a person like Gaiman can surely sign a check to one of Scientology's many shell corporations or charities.

Maybe I'm wrong but I've never read Gaiman criticize or mock Scientology. I think he's just said he was raised in it but is just "spiritual" whatever that means.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

Moore basically got ultracucked at the height of his popularity by his wife and his wife’s girlfriend. He lost custody of his kids for a bit (I think) and basically is a political loser from the North London (not in the sense his side didn’t win, but that they didn’t murder Thatcher after raping the English countryside kulaks).

He’s a degenerate, but he wears it on his sleeve and his big bushy beard hides his incel chin. Any woman in his circles is going to be a fat 30-40 year old woman who’s likely to stab him or autistic gay men.

I’m not saying he’s not a rapist. It’s just his chance to get a rapey cult like Gaiman. He’s a mid-tier writer who can’t help insert his cuckhold fetish into his works though.

 

[The Judean People's Front]

Just because you're out of the church doesn't mean you necessarily stop doing all the stuff.

True! Good point! But unless they pay the church a LOT A LOT A LOT of money and/or service hours, the official Church of Scientology International will not count you among their members. It's kinda how there's a bunch of Mormon offshoot dudes doing their own thing in the Midwest US, Canada and Mexico, but the Mormon Church and even the FLDS in Arizona/Utah wouldn't recognize them.

Religion is bonkers with rules and cults are even moreso.

This thread gave me Scientology dreams last night. Thanks, guys.

That's unfortunate. Were you in charge or having to do the Purification Rundown in the basement of the Hollywood Scientology Center? One would be way more fun than the other.

And I wholeheartedly agree that Neil's past in Scientology is a huge factor in all this. Look at Danny Masterson - some pretty similar shit there, only with less fans/power. Scientology obviously does a number on the developing psyche.

Adding: @Kulee Baba I actually suspect Will and Jada are just Retarded and don't understand that using Scientology "tech" is basically being a Scientologist. The Scientologists love to bang on how you don't have to believe in their shit to use their educational "tech" buuuuuut, yeah. I think they're morons and got hoodwinked. Which is fucking funny.

 

[NoReturn]

That's unfortunate. We're you in charge or having to do the Purification Rundown in the basement of the Hollywood Scientology Center? One would be way more fun than the other.

No, I was actually investigating them because I'd found out a bookstore was a Scientology front. They had no obvious signs of Scientology anywhere (like when Scientology tried to do it in Neopets), but they had meetings in the morning before opening and were using the bookshop to push Scientological ideas without people knowing what they were.

And I wholeheartedly agree that Neil's past in Scientology is a huge factor in all this. Look at Danny Masterson - some pretty similar shit there, only with less fans/power. Scientology obviously does a number on the developing psyche.

Absolutely. It's like I mentioned above with "All people are adult people and making decisions" thing. In Masterson's case he also claimed it was consensual. This looks normal to any outsider - of course someone in his situation would claim it was - but they're missing the whole extra level of: From his religion's point of view, it was consensual.

 

[Dr. Butt]

i apologize for my weird comment. i was just saying that because he was so high up his connection to the religion wouldn't be like a regular churchgoer. his dad basically was their leader in the entire uk growing up. it was like he was the mayors son in a town of about 2000 people. he could get away with anything.

He just also got beaten, waterboarded, and raised by lunatics and has likely been a weirdo all his life. Being upperclass doesn't spare you from extremely perverted treatment by adults in a cult, or even regular adults/teachers in the UK. Even without scientology he probably got creepo sex freak lessons at a Nice Public School with all the other David Walliams types.

 

[demicolon]

This thread gave me Scientology dreams last night. Thanks, guys.

Have your Thetan levels increased? No wait, you didn't pay the fee for that.