Greatest-selling British writer Neil Gaiman launched a press release Wednesday denying he had ever engaged in non-consensual intercourse after {a magazine} this week revealed allegations from a number of ladies, accusing him of sexual assault.
The 64-year-old writer of The Sandman comedian e-book collection and novel American Gods was responding to a New York Journal article that detailed allegations of assault, abuse and coercion levelled by eight ladies. The allegations of 4 of them had been broadcast in July in a Tortoise Media podcast.
Gaiman mentioned he had watched tales about him flow into on the Web for months with “horror and dismay.”
“As I learn via this newest assortment of accounts, there are moments I half-recognise and moments I don’t, descriptions of issues that occurred sitting beside issues that emphatically didn’t occur. I’m removed from an ideal particular person, however I’ve by no means engaged in non-consensual sexual exercise with anybody. Ever,” Gaiman posted on the social media platform Tumblr.
Gaiman mentioned he had learn again message exchanges he had had together with his accusers. They nonetheless learn like “two folks having fun with totally consensual sexual relationships and desirous to see each other once more,” he mentioned.
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“And I additionally realise, wanting via them, years later, that I might have and may have accomplished so significantly better. I used to be emotionally unavailable whereas being sexually out there, self-focused and never as considerate as I might or ought to have been. I used to be clearly careless with folks’s hearts and emotions, and that’s one thing that I actually, deeply remorse,” Gaiman mentioned.
A lot of the allegations relate to events when Gaiman was in his 40s or older and residing in the USA, Britain and New Zealand.
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One of many accusers, Scarlett Pavlovich, informed New York Journal she met Gaiman via his then-wife, U.S. performer Amanda Palmer, on a New Zealand island the place the couple lived with their son in 2022. Pavlovich alleges Gaiman abused her a number of instances beginning the night time they met.
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The Related Press doesn’t determine individuals who say they’ve been sexually assaulted except they publicly determine themselves.
A few of Pavlovich’s allegations had been first made public six months earlier within the podcast. She informed the journal she filed a police report in January 2023 accusing Gaiman of sexual assault.
New Zealand Police this week wouldn’t say whether or not Gaiman was, or had been, underneath investigation.
“Usually, Police can not reply to queries which search to ascertain whether or not particular people are, or have been, underneath Police investigation. Moreover, anybody who makes a criticism to Police has the appropriate to privateness,” New Zealand Police informed AP in an electronic mail on Tuesday.
The AP’s messages to Gaiman’s agent, his workplace and to Bloomsbury, writer of a number of of his current books, weren’t returned.
Amazon Prime Video and Netflix, which each have Gaiman-related initiatives scheduled for this yr, haven’t responded to the AP’s messages.
A number of of Gaiman’s works have been became films and TV exhibits.
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