Neil Gaiman accused of sexual assault
[quote]Neil Gaiman has been accused of sexual assault by two women with whom he was in consensual relationships and is the subject of a police complaint in New Zealand. Gaiman’s position is that he strongly denies any allegations of non-consensual sex with the women and adds New Zealand police did not take up his offer of assistance over one woman’s complaint in 2022, which, he says, reflects its lack of substance.
[quote]Scarlett, 23, alleges that Gaiman sexually assaulted her within hours of their first meeting in February 2022 in a bath at his New Zealand residence, where she worked as a nanny to his child. Tortoise understands that Gaiman’s account is that they only “cuddled” and “made out” in the bath and that he had established consent for this. His position is that, over the three-week sexual relationship that followed, they only ever engaged in consensual digital penetration.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 96 | August 1, 2024 9:14 PM
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Taking baths with a nanny forty years younger than him is a bad look regardless of the allegations.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 3, 2024 6:37 PM
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I ONLY FINGERED THE NANNY
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 3, 2024 6:44 PM
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I’m sorry. If they entered consensual relationships with him AFTER these alleged “assaults,” they have no basis to complain.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 3, 2024 6:46 PM
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I can't believe some people are shocked by this. The straight guys who constantly proclaim their own "sensitivity" are always the worst. If he's scolding others on Twitter about their alleged lack of "kindness"... stay far, far away, gals.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 3, 2024 6:49 PM
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[quote]I ONLY FINGERED THE NANNY
His ex wife probably has, too.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 3, 2024 6:50 PM
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"Cuddling" and "making out" with the nanny in the bath the very first day you meet and employ her is bananas.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 3, 2024 6:53 PM
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I’ve always felt he was a creepy overrated cunt
Fingerbanging the nanny is some low, coercive shit
by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 3, 2024 7:01 PM
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His books certainly indicate a pervy mind
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 3, 2024 7:05 PM
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[quote]I’m sorry. If they entered consensual relationships with him AFTER these alleged “assaults,” they have no basis to complain.
Bullshit.
You have no idea how a victim of a sexual assault would react, especially if she knows she will lose her job if she complains.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 3, 2024 7:12 PM
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I wonder what Tori will think-
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 3, 2024 7:16 PM
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r4 obviously hasn't watched Baby Reindeer with the rest of us. Victims of sexual assault do all sorts of irrational shit post-assault, especially if the perpetrator is someone in a position of authority/power. That sort of experience rewires the brain in some people.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 3, 2024 7:17 PM
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[quote]I wonder what Tori will think-
I hadn't thought of that, but her daughter, Gaiman's goddaughter, is the same age as the nanny.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 3, 2024 7:43 PM
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It’s not bullshit. If you enter into a lasting CONSENSUAL relationship with someone after an incident, you waive the right to make a public fuss about the incident years later when you’re out of the relationship. Why should the rest of us, let alone the law, condemn your ex when you originally decided it was not bad enough to keep away from him. Completely different for a minor, but an adult’s choices have consequences, and one of the consequences of having a consensual relationship with someone is giving up the right to publicly cry “rape” years later.
The problem is no one can separate your motivations for making a complaint about your ex. Yes, it’s possible that you were confused or felt pressured, and only saw the incident clearly years later, but there’s a good chance your motives for going public now are about anger over the end of the relationship or revenge.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 3, 2024 7:44 PM
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Who is he? I looked him up. He's a writer, but really a niche one, if productive. Of all the pervs who've been expossed, why him?
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 3, 2024 7:48 PM
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Disturbing, but not as disturbing as Amanda Palmer's eyebrows were
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 3, 2024 7:59 PM
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r15 How do you not know who he is, just through cultural osmosis alone.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 3, 2024 8:04 PM
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Guilty by reason of hideousness
by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 3, 2024 8:12 PM
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These accusations are about as shocking as the ones against Russell Brand. And they both look like they always smell.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 3, 2024 8:19 PM
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He's always had a ton of devoted fangirls. I don't see the appeal.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 3, 2024 8:23 PM
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I think we recently had a thread where a poster wondered WHET to Neil Gaiman.
I guess now we know why he got so quiet.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 3, 2024 8:25 PM
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It’s definitely creepy to finger bang the nanny in a bath on the day you meet her, but I agree that the fact she stuck around for 3 more weeks of shenanigans makes the years later cry of non-consensual sex hard to accept.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 3, 2024 8:28 PM
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r23 He hasn't been quiet at all, he's been exec producing The Sandman TV adaptation for years now with the showrunner Allan Heinberg. It's just that the second season got delayed because of the writers strike.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 3, 2024 8:29 PM
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In other words, she changed her mind after the fact.
But he was a creepy asshole to make a move on her on DAY FUCKING ONE that he met her. Jesus.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 3, 2024 8:29 PM
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r24 Three weeks of being confused about what actually happened seems believable to me. I'd be far more suspicious of her if the relationship continued for three more months.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 3, 2024 8:30 PM
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You don't understand-- I hired her to fingerbang her.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 3, 2024 9:39 PM
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If you have a three-week relationship after the fact, it cannot have been so traumatic, or can it? It's not as if he kept her in a cell.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 3, 2024 9:39 PM
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It’s not as if he moved her there to live with him….
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 3, 2024 9:41 PM
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I don't know whether he's done anything that rises to the level of criminal assault. But Neil Gaiman is one smug, creepy mutherfucker.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 3, 2024 9:42 PM
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I thought Gaiman was a gay man.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 3, 2024 9:51 PM
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Scientologist. Explains much.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 3, 2024 9:58 PM
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Gaiman has said several times (including to the New Yorker) that he's not a Scientologist. Palmer denied it as well. He tries to avoid the subject because his siblings were dragged into the cult by their parents and public criticism would invite harassment from the so-called church.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 3, 2024 10:12 PM
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According to Reddit, he and Amanda would try to recruit girls for threesomes at Bard, where he was a writing professor.
I've never been interested enough to pay much attention to him, but he always came off as smug. Amanda Palmer has always been an insufferable pain in the ass.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 3, 2024 10:29 PM
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R37, I was just thinking that he must have gotten into shenanigans up in Annandale.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | July 3, 2024 10:38 PM
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He kissed me once uninvited but it was on the cheek.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 3, 2024 10:39 PM
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Collecting hot undergrads is a prerogative of professors at institutions of higher learning
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 40 | July 4, 2024 12:04 AM
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This is one of the things that's powering the Trump support. These guys with nasty pasts of harassment, abuse, misogyny, bigotry, molestation, etc. have the crazy idea that Trump- being one of their own- will somehow squelch the movement. Kamala being their biggest fear.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | July 4, 2024 12:36 AM
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[quote] I thought Gaiman was a gay man.
He has to sleep with women exclusively and be virulently homophobic to be gay.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | July 4, 2024 12:42 AM
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He looks like Howard stern He had a class on Masterclass — he oozed creepiness and perversion although he seems somewhat intelligent …. He’s a Matt Gaetz in writer’s clothing — paying his concubines with a hefty salary and false hopes of boosting their career — a lot smarter then Venmo
by Anonymous | reply 44 | July 4, 2024 12:57 AM
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He looks like Howard Stern mid-transition.
Guess the T (testosterone) levels are dropping…
by Anonymous | reply 45 | July 4, 2024 1:00 AM
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He looks like an old lady Vermont farmer
by Anonymous | reply 46 | July 4, 2024 1:01 AM
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Women need to grow the fuck up. Borderline Personality Disorder is 99% a female problem and most of these women suffer from it.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | July 4, 2024 2:16 AM
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Yeah, just shut up and fuck your employer DAMN.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | July 4, 2024 2:19 AM
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FYI- This is going to blow the fuck up. Sounds like there are MANY women. Many. I would say that he is finished.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | July 4, 2024 3:01 AM
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R47 pfft. As if any homo would silently deal with a hideous troll employer putting the moves on them. The hissing would never stop…
by Anonymous | reply 50 | July 4, 2024 4:01 AM
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[quote] One of the women, a 23-year-old named Scarlett, worked as a nanny to his child. She claimed Gaiman assaulted her in February 2022, just hours after they had first met, while in a bath at his New Zealand home. Gaiman told the outlet that he and Scarlett “cuddled” and “made out” in the bath and that it was consensual; he added that in the three-week sexual relationship they were in, they only engaged in digital penetration.
Ok, even if you give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that is all that happened - who the fuck does that with a brand new employee on day one??? Just hire an escort for god's sake. But then it wouldn't have the extra frisson of "seducing the nanny," I suppose.
Even if there was no straight up assault, dude is a lecherous old creep. He couldn't keep his hands off her for even the first day? 🤮 He must have been salivating like Pavlov's dog when she wanted to take a bath.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 51 | July 4, 2024 1:27 PM
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[quote]But then it wouldn't have the extra frisson of "seducing the nanny," I suppose.
And the whole point of that is that it's a slow seduction, happening over several months or possibly even years (see: Ben Affleck). Where's the thrill in fucking the nanny on day one?
by Anonymous | reply 52 | July 4, 2024 1:43 PM
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Anyone that would marry Amanda Palmer deserves the side eye at least. She is the most intentionally off-putting person.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | July 4, 2024 1:54 PM
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I'll never forgive him for vocally defending George R.R. Martin's right to be a shitty, arrogant, failure.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | July 4, 2024 1:58 PM
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R51- Your point is the key part.. This guy is FUCKED up. The stories we will soon hear will show everyone just how much
by Anonymous | reply 55 | July 4, 2024 3:25 PM
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You can bet he knew what a woman was while he was fingering the nanny’s pussy on her first day of work.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | July 4, 2024 3:41 PM
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[quote] dude is a lecherous old creep. He couldn't keep his hands off her for even the first day? 🤮 He must have been salivating like Pavlov's dog when she wanted to take a bath.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 57 | July 4, 2024 3:45 PM
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[quote]According to Reddit, he and Amanda would try to recruit girls for threesomes at Bard, where he was a writing professor.
Ooh, juicy. Anybody got a link?
by Anonymous | reply 58 | July 4, 2024 4:07 PM
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This sucks- One of my favorite Tori songs of all time has Neil in it.
Deck the halls
I'm young again
I'm you again
Racing turtles
The grapefruit is winning
Seems I keep getting this story twisted
So where's Neil when you need him.....
Well Tori, Neil is busy fingerbanging an 18 year old nanny after meeting her 15 minutes ago!
by Anonymous | reply 59 | July 4, 2024 4:12 PM
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R58 Jesus Christ- go to Reddit and type in the guy's name.
Here you go doodyhead.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 61 | July 4, 2024 4:16 PM
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Why do all nerdy writers turn into such slimy dickheads the second they get a little bit of fame.
Not surprised, however. Amanda Palmer is an attention seeking goblinfaced twat. Who strips on a red carpet while her husband watches and smiles with every camera in the world is on both of you? An asshole that’s who.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | July 4, 2024 4:42 PM
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All the world just stopped now
So you say you don't want to stay together anymore
Let me take a deep breath babe
If you need me, me and Neil'll be hangin' out
with the dream king
Neil says hi by the way
Tori loves Neil. Giving each other shout outs became their thing.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | July 4, 2024 5:20 PM
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[quote] Amanda Palmer is an attention seeking goblinfaced twat. Who strips on a red carpet while her husband watches and smiles
It's a dirty job but somebody's got to do it
by Anonymous | reply 64 | July 4, 2024 7:19 PM
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Straight from the School of Perversion founded by Epstein and its CEO — forget that twats name.
Some ugly intelligent men can pass as human if they have other good qualities ,.
This guy no! His facial hair and hair on his head looks like it was rippers out from a twat elderly homeless woman or whatever
by Anonymous | reply 66 | July 4, 2024 10:54 PM
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He does have rapist face.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | July 4, 2024 11:01 PM
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Pic with Neil and Amanda (of the hairy armpit) for those (like me) who have no idea who she is.
The story is from 2020, just posting it for the pic.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 68 | July 5, 2024 6:45 AM
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[quote]"Cuddling" and "making out" with the nanny in the bath the very first day you meet and employ her is bananas.
Even by Fran Fine's standards, that's too soon.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | July 5, 2024 2:19 PM
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Ugh, more bullshit about “power dynamics” from grown women who pursued a relationship with a married / older man, got dumped, and cry about it for money and revenge.
You don’t continue fucking a man for three weeks if he traumatized you so terribly.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | July 5, 2024 5:29 PM
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They did not fuck for three weeks. He crammed his fingers in her for three weeks until she could arrange an escape.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | July 5, 2024 5:44 PM
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I thought it was Howard Stern in OP’s pic.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | July 5, 2024 8:00 PM
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R15, I don't know much about him either. I've heard the name but that's it.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | July 5, 2024 9:54 PM
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He's well known for his comics, graphic novels and fantasy books, and later on he got into TV and film screenplays. Not my cup of tea, but he has a huge fanbase. He was kind of an alternative/goth darling, a la Tim Burton.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | July 5, 2024 10:55 PM
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[Quote] Tortoise understands
Wait, what? I don’t want the tea spilled by some lethargic armoured reptile.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | July 5, 2024 11:24 PM
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I don’t know what all the fuss is about. When I would go to see a teacher after class to ask about a homework assignment I would often slip my pointer finger into her anus and leave it there for the entirety of the meeting.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | July 5, 2024 11:27 PM
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His spouse ?? Trans ? Shaved off brows with weird pencilled in parentheses
Enlarge her face /-/ ugly ! Thick calves This Neil is into fetishes
It’s not like he even fucked this nanny . Just stuck his fingers into her — he had explained she needed a lot of flexibility to uh work for him
by Anonymous | reply 77 | July 5, 2024 11:31 PM
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From Reddit: Obviously nobody knows me here, but I've known this about Neil for years. A close friend of mine is a local artist who has worked for Neil and Amanda off and on for years and had to deal with Neil's advances. They knew of others as well. I have posted about Neil's behavior on occasion on social media and sometimes women reach out privately to thank me for saying something, they have long feared coming forward due to the harassment they will likely face.
I'm not going to debate anyone here, but yes I spoke to the reporter behind this, who happens to be well known and award winning. He was looking for information, not a story, and the information is what informed the story he wrote, from people I know and a lot of others. What is presented in this podcast is a tiny fraction of what I and others are aware of. This is what can be demonstrated right now with the permission of the victims willing to come forward and face the inevitable abuse Neil's fans will heap upon them, but there are others, a lot of others. This is the tip of a very large iceberg.
I'm sorry this will impact his fandom, I know it's terrible when someone you look up to turns out to not be a good person. Be careful in your responses here, how you reply to this news will let others in this community know how safe it is to come out with their stories. If you truly believed in the ideals Neil espoused, if not lived, this community should be a model of how to support and create a safe space for the abuses of powerful men, even if it is Neil himself who was the problem. Upvote 185 Downvote 4 awards
This is disappointing- He's one of my favorite authors.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | July 5, 2024 11:39 PM
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Never get fingered by your heroes, R78.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | July 6, 2024 12:42 AM
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It's Girls (the HBO series) "American Bitch" episode in real life.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | July 6, 2024 1:33 AM
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Once a woman makes an accusation, any support or defense of the man is seen as insulting and further abuse of the victim.
There are male predators. However, there are also female predators and women wanting to get money over false claims.
Both can be true.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | July 6, 2024 1:45 AM
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I didn't like "Girls" and I've only actually seen a handful of episodes....but "American Bitch" is a standout. Really excellent. And a stand-alone...you don't need to watch any of the other episodes to enjoy it. It was also pretty prescient as it came out a few years before Me Too, if I recall.
BTW, I don't think Neil just like jumped into the tub with the girl randomly like people imagine. He probably had a hiring 'agenda' that went way past making sure the candidates were capable of taking care of his kids. He was likely vetting them in terms of hotness, experience, willingness etc. She was probably a fan and blurted it out during the interview. It doesn't make what he did ok AT ALL.....but it contextualizes it a tiny bit.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | July 6, 2024 3:01 AM
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What is happening to the author sounds almost exactly like what happened to the director a few years back, also at the hands of the celebrity cult. Neil Gaiman/Scientology/Paul Haggis (Neil Gaiman Denies Sexual Assault Allegations Made by Two Women) (Neil Gaiman discusses his relationship with Scientology) (Paul Haggis Parts With Scientology in Scathing Letter) (Paul Haggis Found Liable on All Counts in Civil Rape Trial)
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 85 | July 6, 2024 7:24 AM
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Except Neil Gaiman actually has admitted all this stuff happened. He just claims it was totally consensual, while the women claim otherwise. Doesn't seem like a conspiracy, more like chickens coming home to roost.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | July 7, 2024 12:02 AM
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Gaiman has always been a hack and now he has been revealed to be a pervy, sadistic creep
by Anonymous | reply 87 | July 8, 2024 1:51 AM
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He is someone his fans seemed to WORSHIP. Which is weird.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | July 17, 2024 1:27 AM
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | July 17, 2024 1:34 AM
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So I assume this was acolyte wanted to fuck the famous writer, fucked, decided it kind of sucked, and then later got all pissed off that she had fucked him. Sad, but not rape.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | July 17, 2024 1:38 AM
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More, more, again, again!
[quote]Two more women have alleged that the bestselling author Neil Gaiman sexually assaulted or abused them, extending the timeline of his misconduct across five decades.
[quote]According to the new claims – which Gaiman denies – he pressured a mother-of-three to have sex with him in return for letting her live with her daughters at his property in upstate New York, and made her sign a non-disclosure agreement in return for a $275,000 payment to help her cope with post-traumatic stress and depression following their sexual relationship.
[quote]A second woman says he jumped on her “out of the blue” in an “aggressive, unwanted” pass in the 1980s, when they were both in their twenties.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 92 | August 1, 2024 12:56 PM
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This guy is a piece of shit. I am a massive Tori Amos fan too (well before she lost her voice) but I still respect her talent- and I am torn as to whether she should say something or not. He is her daughter's god daughter.
I starting to make her guilty by association. and that is probably not fair.
He is really a piece of SHIT.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | August 1, 2024 4:56 PM
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[quote] So I assume this was acolyte wanted to fuck the famous writer, fucked, decided it kind of sucked, and then later got all pissed off that she had fucked him. Sad, but not rape.
Not sure why you assume that, given the description of what occurred.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | August 1, 2024 5:37 PM
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I am a moron- Tori's daughter is Neil's goddaughter
by Anonymous | reply 95 | August 1, 2024 5:52 PM
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