MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Greatest-selling British creator Neil Gaiman launched an announcement Wednesday denying he had ever engaged in non-consensual intercourse after {a magazine} this week revealed allegations from a number of girls, accusing him of sexual assault.
The 64-year-old creator of “The Sandman” comedian e book collection and novel “American Gods” was responding to a New York Journal article that detailed allegations of assault, abuse and coercion leveled by eight girls. The allegations of 4 of them had been broadcast in July in a Tortoise Media podcast.
Gaiman stated he had watched tales about him flow into on the Web for months with “horror and dismay.”
“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. I’m far from a perfect person, but I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone. Ever.” Gaiman posted on the social media platform Tumblr.
Gaiman stated he had learn again message exchanges he had had along with his accusers. They nonetheless learn like “two people enjoying entirely consensual sexual relationships and wanting to see one another again,” he stated.
“And I also realise, looking through them, years later, that I could have and should have done so much better. I was emotionally unavailable while being sexually available, self-focused and not as thoughtful as I could or should have been. I was obviously careless with people’s hearts and feelings, and that’s something that I really, deeply regret,” Gaiman stated.
Many of the allegations relate to events when Gaiman was in his 40s or older and residing in the USA, Britain and New Zealand.
One of many accusers, Scarlett Pavlovich, informed New York Journal she met Gaiman by 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 night time they met.
A few of Pavlovich’s allegations had been first made public six months earlier within the podcast.
She informed 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, below investigation.
“In general, Police cannot respond to queries which seek to establish whether specific individuals are, or have been, under Police investigation. Additionally, anyone who makes a complaint to Police has the right to privacy,” New Zealand Police informed The Related Press 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 current books, weren’t returned.
Amazon Prime Video and Netflix, which each have Gaiman-related tasks scheduled for this yr, have not responded to the AP’s messages.
A number of of Gaiman’s works have been become films and tv applications.
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