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Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer sued by queer survivor

Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer sued by queer survivor

Amanda Palmer & Neil Gaiman attending the Broadway Opening Night Performance of 'Matilda The Musical' at the Shubert Theatre in New York City on 4/11/2013
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Scarlett Pavlovich previously accused Gaiman of assault.

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Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer’s former nanny has filed a lawsuit against the ex-couple after previously accusing Gaiman of sexual assault.

Scarlett Pavlovich is one of multiple women who have come forward with allegations against the author over the past year. She previously detailed her experiences in both Tortoise Media’s podcast series last summer and Vulture’s exposé on Gaiman published in January.

In her lawsuit, Pavlovich says she met Palmer on a beach in New Zealand, where she’s from and where Gaiman and Palmer were living at the time. She began helping out with personal tasks and childcare, eventually becoming a nanny to their son. However, she alleges Gaiman sexually assaulted her repeatedly while she was in their employ, but that she felt unable to leave as she had previously been homeless and broke.

Pavlovich has further claimed that she told Palmer about the assaults, and that Palmer subsequently informed her that multiple women had told her similar things about Gaiman in the past.

"Palmer was sufficiently aware that Gaiman was likely to target Scarlett, that she warned Gaiman to stay away from Scarlett before she brought Scarlett to Gaiman’s house as a babysitter," the lawsuit reads. "Yet Palmer never warned Scarlett of the known danger posed by Gaiman."

Public opinion has shifted drastically against Gaiman as more and more accusations have come to light. He has also incurred professional consequences, with adaptations and reprints of his work either being canceled or put on pause.

In January, he finally responded to the many allegations in a blog post on his website, claiming he had previously stayed silent "out of a desire not to draw even more attention to a lot of misinformation."

"There are moments I half-recognise and moments I don’t, descriptions of things that happened sitting beside things that emphatically did not happen," he wrote. "I’m far from a perfect person, but I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone. Ever."

A representative for Palmer previously stated that she is "profoundly disturbed by the allegations that Mr. Gaiman has abused several women," but she has otherwise asked for privacy, citing "ongoing custody and divorce proceedings."

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Rachel Kiley is presumably a writer and definitely not a terminator. She can usually be found crying over queerbaiting in the Pitch Perfect franchise or on Twitter, if not both.

Rachel Kiley is presumably a writer and definitely not a terminator. She can usually be found crying over queerbaiting in the Pitch Perfect franchise or on Twitter, if not both.