Fresh accusations have surfaced against the bestselling author
A New Zealand woman was among those who first accused Neil Gaiman of sexual assault, and fresh allegations have since surfaced against the bestselling fantasy author, reported the NZ Herald.
Scarlett Pavlovich claimed that Gaiman had assaulted her in 2022, while she was employed by him and then-wife Amanda Palmer as a nanny in their Waiheke Island residence. Pavlovich said she had filed a police report against Gaiman in October 2022, but according to Vulture, NZ police said “the matter had been closed”. Pavlovich also alleged that she had to sign an NDA after her tenure as the family’s nanny ended.
Pavlovich’s account was one of eight told to Vulture writer Lila Shapiro in an article that was published on 13 January. The initial accusations against Gaiman came out in 2023, which the author denied. Nonetheless, he has since stepped down as a Good Omens season 3 producer.
Gaiman wrote in a Tumblr post reacting to the allegations that he had “never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone. Ever”.
“As I read through this latest collection of accounts, 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 in a snippet published by the Herald.
RNZ said that it had reached out to Writers House, Gaiman’s literary agency, for comment.
Last July, the Herald reported that as per Tortoise Media, the UK-based podcast platform on which Pavlovich first made her claim, New Zealand police said that attempts to communicate with key individuals in the Gaiman investigation were ongoing.
