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Neil Gaiman: accuser files civil lawsuit alleging rape, sexual assault and human trafficking

Neil Gaiman pictured in Los Angeles in January 2024.
Neil Gaiman, pictured in Los Angeles in January 2024. Scarlett Pavlovich, formerly a nanny who worked for Gaiman and his wife Amanda Palmer, has filed a lawsuit against both of them, alleging sexual assault and human trafficking. Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

A woman from New Zealand has filed a civil lawsuit against bestselling British author Neil Gaiman and his estranged wife, musician Amanda Palmer, accusing Gaiman of repeatedly sexually assaulting her while she was working as the couple’s babysitter and nanny.

Scarlett Pavlovich filed the lawsuit in federal court in Wisconsin, Massachusetts and New York on Monday. Pavlovich previously publicly identified herself in an interview with New York magazine, which published an article in January detailing allegations of assault, abuse and coercion levelled at Gaiman by multiple women.

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