Famous author Neil Gaiman ‘raped family nanny in outdoor bathtub,’ shock new report claims
Author Neil Gaiman has been accused of raping his son’s nanny in the outdoor bathtub of their New Zealand home, a bombshell report claims.
Gaiman, 64, is the author of books including The Sandman, American Gods and the children’s book Coraline, and co-wrote Good Omens with author Terry Pratchett, which was later turned into a television series by the BBC and Amazon.
Five women came forward in July accusing him of sexual assault, leading to the cancellation of the third season of Good Omens.
Now a shocking new report from Vulture revealed disturbing details of even more women who claimed Gaiman assaulted them. The author has strongly denied all allegations.
Scarlett Pavlovich told the outlet that Gaiman raped her in an outdoor pool on February 4, 2022, while she was nursing the son he shares with ex-wife Amanda Palmer.
She said that despite her resistance, Gaiman encouraged her to take a bath after they finished dinner.
After undressing and getting in, she claimed Gaiman was naked and participating. While in the bath, Pavlovich said he told her to stretch out.
“I said ‘no.’ I said, ‘I don’t have confidence in my body,'” Pavlovich said. ‘[Gaiman] said, “It’s okay, it’s just me. Just relax. Just have a chat.’
Author Neil Gaiman is accused of raping his son’s nanny in the outdoor bathtub of their New Zealand home
Scarlett Pavlovich claimed Gaiman beat her in an outdoor pool while she was babysitting the son he shares with ex-wife Amanda Palmer (right)
Pavlovich said the situation escalated from there and Gaiman sexually assaulted her.
She described him penetrating her with his fingers before trying to do so with his penis as she told him no.
Pavlovich recalled how, as he was ejaculating, Gaiman asked if he could ejaculate on a certain part of her body – which she refused. She claims he did that anyway.
He allegedly said to her during the act: ‘Call me master. Be a good girl. You’re a good girl.’
Pavlovich recalled how she cried and Googled “Me Too” and “Neil Gaiman” in the hours after the bathtub ordeal.
Despite what she reportedly endured, Palmer and Gaiman offered Pavlovich the opportunity to move with them to England and Scotland to continue her nanny work, which she agreed to.
After Palmer was offered the role, Pavlovich texted Gaiman, “I’m consumed with thoughts of you, the things you’re going to do to me. I’m so hungry. What a horrible creature you have made me into,” Vulture wrote.
In another incident, which took place at a home on the New Zealand island of Waiheke, Pavlovich said Gaiman attacked her while she was cleaning up the kitchen.
She said the author approached her from behind, pushed down her pants, started hitting her with his belt and tried to penetrate her anally without lubricant.
After yelling no, Pavlovich said he grabbed butter from the kitchen, used it as a lubricant and penetrated her without using protection.
Pavlovich claimed that when the rape was over, he called her “slave” and ordered her to “clean him up.”
The allegations published by the magazine detail how Gaiman’s alleged horror would continue night after night, causing the evenings of abuse to “blend into one another.”
Pavlovich claimed she fainted from the pain of the sexual encounters, recalling an instance where he was so forceful that she vomited on him – before he told her to lick it up.
The abuse allegedly occurred while Gaiman’s young son was in the room, she said. Representatives for the author told the magazine that the claims are “false and furthermore deplorable.”
The author has strongly denied all allegations
A second woman, Kendra Stout, claimed Gaiman (pictured) forced her to have rough sex with him. He has denied all allegations
A second woman, Kendra Stout, told the outlet that Gaiman forced her to have rough sex with him.
Stout said during an experience with Gaiman that she had a urinary tract infection and asked Gaiman not to penetrate her, but he ignored her.
The Tortoise podcast, hosted by journalist and host Rachel Johnson, first broke the news of Gaiman’s sexual abuse allegations.
Two women claimed he forced them to have “rough and degrading sex,” which was not always consensual, and told them to call him “master.”
Two other women also came forward with allegations following Tortoise’s investigation.
Writer Julia Hobsbawm said that Gaiman made an “aggressive, unwanted attack” on her in her apartment in 1986, jumping on her “out of the blue” and trying to kiss her.
Gaiman says he stopped kissing Hobsbawm when he realized she didn’t want to.
Another woman, Caroline Wallner, a mother of three, alleged he pressured her to have sex with him in exchange for letting her live with her daughters in his New York home.
The Tortoise podcast, hosted by journalist and host Rachel Johnson, first broke the news of Gaiman’s sexual abuse allegations
She claimed it took place over a four-year period from 2017, after she separated from her ex-husband. Gaiman insists the relationship was consensual.
A fifth woman has also claimed that Gaiman kissed and groped her while she was on a bus during a US book tour in July 2013.
The author says he stopped kissing the woman when he knew she didn’t want to, and denies the claims of groping.