Greatest-selling British writer Neil Gaiman launched a press release Wednesday denying he had ever engaged in non-consensual intercourse after {a magazine} this week printed allegations from a number of girls, accusing him of sexual assault.
The 64-year-old writer of The Sandman comedian e-book sequence and novel American Gods was responding to a New York Journal article that detailed allegations of assault, abuse and coercion levelled by eight girls. The allegations of 4 of them had been broadcast in July in a Tortoise Media podcast.
Gaiman mentioned he had watched tales about him flow into on the Web for months with “horror and dismay.”
“As I learn by means of this newest assortment of accounts, there are moments I half-recognise and moments I don’t, descriptions of issues that occurred sitting beside issues that emphatically didn’t occur. I’m removed from an ideal particular person, however I’ve by no means engaged in non-consensual sexual exercise with anybody. Ever,” Gaiman posted on the social media platform Tumblr.
Gaiman mentioned he had learn again message exchanges he had had together with his accusers. They nonetheless learn like “two individuals having fun with completely consensual sexual relationships and desirous to see each other once more,” he mentioned.
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“And I additionally realise, trying by means of them, years later, that I may have and may have achieved so significantly better. I used to be emotionally unavailable whereas being sexually accessible, self-focused and never as considerate as I may or ought to have been. I used to be clearly careless with individuals’s hearts and emotions, and that’s one thing that I actually, deeply remorse,” Gaiman mentioned.
Many of the allegations relate to events when Gaiman was in his 40s or older and dwelling in america, Britain and New Zealand.
One of many accusers, Scarlett Pavlovich, instructed New York Journal she met Gaiman by means of his then-wife, U.S. performer Amanda Palmer, on a New Zealand island the place the couple lived with their son in 2022. Pavlovich alleges Gaiman abused her a number of occasions beginning the evening they met.
The Related Press doesn’t establish individuals who say they’ve been sexually assaulted except they publicly establish themselves.
A few of Pavlovich’s allegations have been first made public six months earlier within the podcast. She instructed the journal she filed a police report in January 2023 accusing Gaiman of sexual assault.
New Zealand Police this week wouldn’t say whether or not Gaiman was, or had been, underneath investigation.
“On the whole, Police can not reply to queries which search to ascertain whether or not particular people are, or have been, underneath Police investigation. Moreover, anybody who makes a criticism to Police has the correct to privateness,” New Zealand Police instructed AP in an e-mail on Tuesday.
The AP’s messages to Gaiman’s agent, his workplace and to Bloomsbury, writer of a number of of his latest books, weren’t returned.
Amazon Prime Video and Netflix, which each have Gaiman-related initiatives scheduled for this yr, haven’t responded to the AP’s messages.
A number of of Gaiman’s works have been became motion pictures and TV reveals.
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