Neil Gaiman is accused of sexual assault by nine women in Vulture's report

Four new allegations are emerging among nearly a dozen allegations from women who claim award-winning writer Neil Gaiman sexually abused them.

Vulture published a report on Monday outlining the new allegations against Gaiman, as well as those first uncovered last year. Gaiman, 64, is the famed English fantasy author behind “The Sandman,” “Good Omens,” “American Gods” and “Coraline,” all of which have been adapted into film and television, among others.

In a six-part podcast series by the British media company Tortoise entitled “Master: The allegations against Neil Gaiman” in the summer of 2024, five allegations of sexual assault were initially presented. Vulture’s investigation includes four allegations that “share elements with her,” and the outlet is said to have reviewed texts, diary entries, emails with friends and police messages.

The youngest alleged victim was 18 years old, but most of the women were in their 20s when the alleged assaults took place, while Gaiman was in his 40s or older, with one exception in which one woman claims the writer was in 1986 (when Gaiman was in a prison) forcibly kissed (he is in his mid-20s). Some of the women were fans and some were working with him at the time of the alleged incidents.

Gaiman’s representatives have responded to some media outlets claiming that the incidents were consensual and involved the practice of BDSM (bondage, discipline/dominance, submission/sadism and masochism).

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One woman, Scarlett Pavlovich, explained that she began working as a nanny for Gaiman’s then-estranged second wife, Amanda Palmer, in 2022 when Gaiman allegedly attacked her in a bathtub on his property. After surprising Pavlovich and taking her for a bath, she said, Gaiman had a conversation before physically attacking her and instructing her to call him “master.” As Pavlovich continued to babysit, she recalled other alleged incidents of forceful oral and anal sex without lubricant – she said she once fainted from the pain – as well as being forced to ingest her own waste while she was also referred to as a “slave.”

Another woman named Kendall recalled that Gaiman allegedly sat on her on a tour bus in 2012 and kissed her. A woman named Kendra Stout recalled a relationship with Gaiman that began in 2003 that she claims became physically torturous at times, hitting her or subjecting her to rough sex. Stout told the outlet an instance in which she told Gaiman they couldn’t have sex because she had a painful urinary tract infection, but he ignored her wishes.

Vulture also spoke to friends of his second wife, now ex-wife, who claimed the couple had an open relationship. A woman using the alias Rachel allegedly began a relationship with Palmer before Palmer introduced her to Gaiman. Although Rachel told Vulture that her experiences with Gaiman involved demands that often frightened or hurt her.

Gaiman and Palmer divorced in 2022. According to Vulture’s report and interviews with her friends, Gaiman’s actions appear to have contributed to the divorce, although Palmer also apparently knew about some of these incidents when she asked Pavlovich to babysit for her son.

Pavlovich claims she eventually told Palmer about the incidents, including one in which Pavlovich was raped and forced to drink Gaiman’s urine while his child was in the same room, which apparently shocked Palmer and led her to suggest to Gaiman, to seek advice. Vulture reports that the author was never present.

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