Neil Gaiman Issues New Denial Over Sexual Misconduct Allegations

Neil Gaiman continued to deny sexual misconduct accusations, calling them a “smear campaign” and claiming there are “emails, text messages and video evidence that flatly contradict them.”

In a new, lengthy statement Gaiman shared on Bluesky Monday, Feb. 2., the Good Omens author said that it was an “occasionally nightmarish year and a half” and also mentioned a new writing project he’s been working on. “These allegations, especially the really salacious ones, have been spread and amplified by people who seemed a lot more interested in outrage and getting clicks on headlines rather than whether things had actually happened or not. (They didn’t.),” said Gaiman in his first public comment on the accusations in nearly a year.

In 2024, Scarlett Pavlovich, a former nanny who began working for Gaiman and his then-wife Amanda Palmer in New Zealand in February 2022 (the couple finalized their divorce later that year), accused Gaiman of sexual abuse and human trafficking, the latter allegation including Palmer. Pavlovich sued the couple after sharing her story with New York Magazine, in which eight of Gaiman’s other accusers spoke for that story.

In March of last year, Gaiman’s lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the sexual assault lawsuit brought by Pavlovich and called her a “fantasist who has fabricated a tale of abuse,” attaching in his filing
text messages he claimed “demonstrate, in Pavlovich’s own words, that our relationship was consensual.”

In October, a judge in Wisconsin dismissed the sexual assault suit filed by Pavlovich, citing the case should be filed in New Zealand, where the assault allegedly took place. Pavlovich’s attorneys have filed an appeal. It is unclear whether the case will be brought by Pavlovich and her team to New Zealand.

Reps for Pavlovich did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone‘s request for comment. A rep for Palmer declined to comment.
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In his statement on Monday, Gaiman said he was “astonished” by how much of the reporting on the allegations “was simply an echo chamber, and how the actual evidence was dismissed or ignored.”

Gaiman has denied all allegations against him. He has since been dropped from several projects based on his work including Anansi Boys and the final season of Good Omens on Amazon. Dark Horse Comics also canceled plans to publish the final issue of Anansi Boys comic series. The author was also absent from press for the last season of The Sandman on Netflix and development on The Graveyard Book was also nixed.