Civilian litigation filed against Neil Gaiman for sexual assault

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A woman has brought civilian lawsuits against Neil Gaiman and his wife in the United States and accuses the British author of sexual assault on her.

The lawsuits against Gaiman and Amanda Palmer were filed in Wisconsin, Massachusetts and New York.

In January, the 64-year-old wrote a blog post in which he denied accusations of sexual assault against him by eight women.

The lawsuits say the woman became friends with palms when she was 22 years old and homeless in New Zealand and started working for the couple, which was when the assault began.

According to the lawsuits, Palmer told the woman that there had been previous complaints from more than a dozen different women.

The woman claims that the couple violated the laws of federal human trafficking with complaints about assaults, battery and applied emotional distress against Gaiman and negligence against palm trees.

She is looking for at least seven million dollars (£ 5.6 million) in compensation.

Five women, four of whom were among eight, shown in a New York magazine article in January, made accusations of the author in a turtle media -podcast series released in the summer of 2024.

Since the magazine article canceled publisher Dark Horse Comics the upcoming work of Gaiman and a British stage adjustment of his book Coraline has been scrapped.

The British-born The Sandman author wrote in a blog post that he had read the claims with “horror and dismay”.

He wrote: “I have been quiet so far, both out of respect for the people who shared their stories and out of a desire not to draw even more attention to a lot of wrong information.

“I have always tried to be a private person and increasingly felt that social media was the wrong place to talk about important personal affairs. I have now reached the point where I feel I should say something.

“As I read through this latest collection of accounts, there are moments, I’m half -reclaimed and moments I don’t do, descriptions of things that happened by sitting next to things that emphatically didn’t happen.

“I am far from a perfect person, but I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with someone. Ever.”

The author said he understood that “not everyone will believe me” and added that he would “do my best to deserve their confidence as well as my readers’ confidence.”

He claimed that some of the allegations “simply never happened”, while others had been “distorted” to “have no relationship with reality,” but said he would “take responsibility for any erroneous mistakes I made”.