Four new allegations have emerged among the nearly twelve allegations made by women who say award-winning author Neil Gaiman physically assaulted them. Vulture on Monday published a report reflecting the new allegations against Gaiman as well as allegations first exposed last year. Neil Gaiman, 64, is the popular English dream essayist behind “The Sandman”, “Good Omens”, “American Divine Beings” and “Coraline”, which have been turned into film and TV adaptations, among others. U.K. news source Turtle’s six-episode digital recording series, named “Experts: Allegations against Neil Gaiman”, featured five allegations of rape for the first time during the summer of 2024.
Vulture’s investigation includes four claims that “share components with them”, and the power source is said to have examined texts, journal excerpts, messages with friends and police correspondence. The youngest confirmed victim was 18, but most of the women were in their 20s at the time of the alleged assaults, while Gaiman was 40 or older, with one exception in which a woman claimed the author successfully kissed her in 1986 (when Gaiman was 20). Some of the women were fans, and some worked with him at the time of the alleged incidents.
Neil Gaiman’s representatives have responded to some outlets, claiming the incidents were consensual and were opportunities to practice BDSM (subjugation, discipline/dominance, adjustment/perversion, and masochism).
A woman named Scarlett Pavlovich reported that she had just begun working as a babysitter for Neil Gaiman’s then-estranged second wife, Amanda Palmer, in 2022 when Gaiman allegedly attacked her in the bathroom at his home. After surprising Pavlovich and joining her in the shower, she said, Gaiman talked to her before actually attacking her and telling her to call him “extraordinary.” As Pavlovich continued to babysit, she reviewed more alleged episodes of effective oral and butt-focused sex without oil — she says at one point she collapsed from excitement — as well as forcing her to swallow his own feces while she was referred to as a “slave.”
Another woman named Kendall reviewed him allegedly lowering himself on top of her and kissing her on a travel transport in 2012. A woman named Kendra Heavey reviewed a relationship with Neil Gaiman that began in 2003 and she guaranteed it became really unbearable, sometimes beating her or exposing her to unpleasant sex. Bold explained to Power Source an instance in which she told Gaiman they could never have sex because she had a difficult urinary infection, though he disregarded her wishes.
Vulture also addressed friends of his second wife, now ex, who guaranteed the open relationship between the couple. One woman, referred to by a pen name, had allegedly begun a relationship with Palmer before Palmer introduced her to Gaiman. However Rachel told Vulture that her encounters with Gaiman often included requests that often scared or hurt her.
Neil Gaiman and Palmer separated in 2022. According to Vulture’s report and interviews with her friends, Gaiman’s activities contributed to the separation, though it seems Palmer also had some knowledge of these events when she asked Pavlovich to babysit her child.
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Pavlovich claims she eventually told Palmer about the events, recalling an incident in which Pavlovich was attacked and forced to drink Gaiman’s urine while her child was in the same room, which apparently shocked Palmer and led her to suggest she seek help from Gaiman. The author would never be involved, Vulture reports.
Since last summer, some ventures involving Gaiman have reportedly been put on hold or managed. IndieWire revealed in September 2024 that Disney had put its film version of Gaiman’s “The Memorial Park Book” on hold. And in October, it was reported that the Amazon Prime Video series “Promise of Something Better” would end with a one-and-a-half-hour television film episode instead of a full third season, which Amazon MGM Studios. Netflix currently cannot comment on the future of its television version of “The Sandman,” in light of the DC comic book, which is planning its third season.