Creator Neil Gaiman has denied allegations of sexually abusive behaviour towards two girls throughout consensual relationships.
In keeping with an investigation for the Tortoise podcast hosted by journalist and broadcaster Rachel Johnson, the award-winning British author was alleged to have sexually assaulted one of many girls inside hours of their first assembly, when she was 22 and he was 61.
She made a criticism to police about him, though he was by no means interviewed or accused of any felony offence due to lack of proof.
He has strenuously denied any sexual misconduct and any allegation of non-consensual intercourse.
Mr Gaiman, 63, is the creator of books together with The Sandman, American Gods and the kids’s guide Coraline, and co-wrote Good Omens with creator Terry Pratchett, which was later changed into a tv collection by the BBC and Amazon.
Creator Neil Gaiman (pictured in August 2019) has denied allegations of sexually abusive behaviour towards two girls throughout consensual relationships
Mr Gaiman, 63, (pictured in New York final month) is the creator of books together with The Sandman, American Gods and the kids’s guide Coraline, and co-wrote Good Omens with creator Terry Pratchett, which was later changed into a tv collection by the BBC and Amazon
The ladies’s allegations have been revealed in a podcast collection by Tortoise Media, ‘Grasp: the allegations towards Neil Gaiman’, which made clear that each girls have been in consensual relationships with the author.
They each declare they have been subjected to bodily painful and degrading sexual encounters throughout their relationships with Mr Gaiman.
One of many girls advised the podcast they’d a three-week sexual relationship and that he advised her: ‘I am your grasp. Name me grasp.’
She mentioned he had choked her and that one encounter was so painful that she misplaced consciousness, and that she discovered it ‘abhorrent and degrading’.
The girl mentioned she met Mr Gaiman in 2022 whereas he was married to his then spouse Amanda Palmer.
The pair have been in an open marriage and lived in separate homes on the unique island of Waiheke, close to Auckland.
The girl alleged when she arrived at Mr Gaiman’s home the author sexually assaulted her that evening.
However the podcast featured a message she despatched him the following day, during which she wrote: ‘Thanks for a beautiful, beautiful evening. Wow x.’
Each girls declare they have been subjected to bodily painful and degrading sexual encounters throughout their relationships with Mr Gaiman (pictured in 2013)
Tortoise reported that she despatched Mr Gaiman quite a few textual content and video messages during which she explicitly mentioned she had consented throughout their sexual encounters, and likewise mentioned she cherished him and was grateful to him.
The girl advised the podcast: ‘On the finish of it he made me really feel prefer it was consensual, but it surely wasn’t consensual.’ She added: ‘He type of lured me if you’ll into his psychological labyrinth. So it was not simple in any respect.’
The girl reported Mr Gaiman to the police after he returned to Britain.
Tortoise reported that Mr Gaiman was conscious of the police criticism and supplied to talk with officers, however that they didn’t interview him and dropped the criticism due to lack of proof.
Tortoise reported that he insisted their sexual encounters have been solely consensual and that they didn’t have full sexual activity.
The second lady met Mr Gaiman when she was 18 in 2003.
They started a relationship when she was 20, and he was in his mid-40s. She advised the podcast that she submitted to intercourse however had not needed or loved it, and that they as soon as had intercourse when she had explicitly advised him she didn’t need to accomplish that.
She mentioned: ‘I by no means needed any of the stuff he did to me, together with the extra violent stuff. However I did consent to it.’ Tortoise reported that Mr Gaiman denied any illegal behaviour with Okay, and that he was ‘disturbed by her allegations’.
Representatives for Mr Gaiman, who lives within the US, didn’t reply to a request for remark from the Each day Mail.
