Neil Gaiman Says Texts End up Rape Accuser Is ‘Fantasist’

“The Sandman” writer Neil Gaiman fired again at his former babysitter on Tuesday, calling her a “fantasist” and generating WhatsApp messages that he says refute her sexual abuse claims.

Gaiman and his estranged spouse, Amanda Palmer, had been sued in federal court docket final month for alleged sexual attack and trafficking. The plaintiff, Scarlett Pavlovich, had up to now raised the allegations in a Tortoise Media podcast and a New York mag function tale.

In a court docket declaration, Gaiman mentioned that he and Pavlovich had bathed in combination and engaged in consensual sexual job, however that they didn’t have sex. He denied the lurid rape and abuse allegations raised within the lawsuit.

“None of Pavlovich’s claims are true,” he wrote. “She is a fantasist who has fabricated a story of abuse towards me and Ms. Palmer.”

Gaiman additionally produced a lot of messages between Pavlovich and himself that he says presentations the encounters, which took place in New Zealand, had been consensual.

In a single message in February 2022, in a while after their first sexual interplay, Pavlovich wrote, “Thanks for an exquisite pretty night time – wow x.”

Two days later, she wrote: “Let me know If you need me to run a bathtub… I’m ate up through ideas of you, the issues you’re going to do to me. I’m so hungry.”

Consistent with the messages, Gaiman faced her a few month later after listening to that she had accused him of rape and was once making plans to “MeToo” him.

“Oh my God. Neil! I by no means stated that,” she wrote, including that she was once dissatisfied as a result of she have been “caused” about her previous. “However I’m horrified through your message – me too you? Rape? WHAT? That is the primary I’ve heard of this. Wow. I want a second to digest your message… I’ve by no means used the phrase rape, I’m simply so surprised, I truthfully don’t know what to mention.”

In a while, Gaiman wrote to mention that one among her buddies have been spreading a story of abuse to Gaiman’s spouse.

“I assumed that we had been a just right factor and an overly consensual factor certainly,” Gaiman wrote to Pavlovich.

She answered: “sure we did, and it was once consensual (and beautiful)!”

As he expressed worry that he was once being portrayed as a “monster,” she sought to supply larger assurance: “That is past out of keep an eye on and as I stated I most effective have fondness and kindness for you. It was once consensual – how time and again do I’ve to fucking inform everybody.”

Gaiman wrote in his declaration that he believed Pavlovich was once topic to “out of doors influencers” who driven a false narrative of abuse towards her needs. Consistent with the submitting, she went to the New Zealand government in November 2022. The police investigation was once closed with out fees in April 2024, the report states.

Gaiman alleges that since then, Pavlovich has long past on a media marketing campaign to defame him and check out to drive him into “an unjust monetary agreement.”

A number of different ladies additionally made allegations within the podcast and the New York mag tale. Gaiman has been dropped from a sequence of tasks. In January, he wrote on his private weblog that he had by no means engaged in non-consensual sexual job, regardless that he regretted having been “emotionally unavailable” and “careless with other people’s hearts and emotions.”

Gaiman’s legal professionals filed a movement to brush aside the lawsuit, which was once filed in U.S. District Courtroom in Wisconsin. They argued each that the allegations are false and {that a} U.S. court docket has no jurisdiction over allegations coming up in New Zealand.