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The author Neil Gaiman and his former wife Amanda Palmer have been sued in the US by a woman who accuses him of repeated sexual assaults while she was working as the couple’s nanny.
Scarlett Pavlovich filed three lawsuits against Gaiman and Palmer in New York, Massachusetts and Wisconsin and is seeking millions of dollars in damages for the couple’s alleged violation of human trafficking laws.
Pavlovich’s court filings claim that while employed as the couple’s nanny, Gaiman repeatedly groped and sexually assaulted her while his son was in the same room.
She also alleges that “Palmer knew about Gaiman’s history of sexual misconduct” and that the couple withheld payment to her.
Allegations against Gaiman by five women, including Pavlovich, first emerged in Tortoise’s reporting for the podcast Master.
In a statement last month Gaiman said: “I don’t accept there was any abuse. I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone... Some of the horrible stories now being told simply never happened.”
