A woman from New Zealand submitted a lawsuit against the best -selling British author Neil Gaiman and his wife Amanda Palmer, who claimed that she had repeatedly sexually attacked Gaiman while working as the couple’s babysitter and nanny.
On Monday, Scarlett Pavlovich handed down with two separate lawsuits who only name Palmer as a defendant in Wisconsin, Massachusetts and New York. The lawsuits by Massachusetts and New York, who only name Gaiman’s wife, were submitted due to the “uncertainty about Palmer’s residence”, the lawsuit said. Pavlovich’s lawyers will “only proceed in the district of their choice against Palmer”.
The Associated Press identifies people who say that they have been sexually attacked unless they identify publicly. Pavlovich identified in an interview with the New York magazine, in which an article was published in January, in which accusations, abuse and coercion of eight women were triggered.
Pavlovich claims in the lawsuits that she was homeless and lived on a beach when she scored Palmer in Auckland in 2020. Pavlovich was 22 years old at that time.
Plague
According to the complaints, Palmer Pavlovich invited to the couple’s New Zealand house on Waiheke Island. Pavlovich began to make errands for the couple, to help her son and to help with tasks, to finally become the couple’s nanny.
Gaiman first sexually attacked her on the night you got to know in February 2022, the complaints claim. The attacks continued, but she kept working for the couple because she was broke and homeless, and Gaiman had told her that he would help her career as a script.
When she told Palmer about the attacks, Palmer told her that more than a dozen women had told her in the past that she had sexually abused Gaiman, the complaints claim.
The attacks did not stop until Pavlovich Palmer said that she would kill herself, the complaints said. She left the family and became homeless again, although the documents said that Gaiman finally paid for her for her work to take care of the couple’s child and to cover their rent for a few months.
Palmer knew about Gaiman’s sexual wishes and presented him Pavlovich and knew that he would attack her after the lawsuits. Pavlovich claims that Gaiman and Palmer have violated bans of federal trade against human trafficking and is looking for at least 7 million US dollars in the event of compensation.
Gaiman replies
After the article of the New York magazine had been published, Gaiman published an explanation in January and denied that he was not ever involved. The allegations of four women were previously broadcast in a turtle -Media -Podcast in July.
“I’m far from a perfect person, but I have never dealt with anyone with an unreserved sexual activity.” Gaiman published in an explanation on his website.
The representatives of Gaiman and Palmer did not immediately respond to inquiries about comments on Monday, and online court records have not listed any lawyers who represented them in the suits. Pavlovich’s lawyers said in the submissions that Gaiman, author of bestsellers like Coraline And The sandman Series lives in Menomonia, Wis., But they are not sure whether Palmer lives in Massachusetts or New York.
Pavlovich told New York Magazine that in January 2023 she submitted a police report in which Gaiman was accused of sexual assault. The police have not confirmed whether Gaiman has ever been examined.
Gaiman has worked with numerous publishers over the years. Two of them, Harpercollins and WW Norton, said they had no plans to publish their books in the future. Others, including Bloomsbury, have so far rejected a comment.
Dark Horse Comics announced in January that it would no longer publish its illustrated series based on Gaiman’s novel, Anansi Boys. The seventh of eight editions was published at the beginning of this month.
Disney has a planned adaptation of Gaiman Insigen The cemetery bookWhile Netflix is supposed to have a second season based on publication The sandman. Netflix previously announced that the series would end after this season.
