Neil Gaiman's Former Nanny Sues Him And His Wife For 'Repeated Sexual Assault'

(MENAFN- Live Mint) Neil Gaiman, the best-selling British author, has been sued by his former nanny, a woman from New Zealand, accusing him of repeatedly sexually assaulting her. She has also named his wife, Amanda Palmer, in the three civil lawsuits she filed against Neil Gaiman.

Scarlett Pavlovich, who worked as the couple's babysitter and nanny, filed the lawsuits in federal court in Wisconsin, Massachusetts and New York on Monday.

Pavlovich identified herself in an interview with New York Magazine, which published an article in January detailing allegations of assault, abuse and coercion levelled by eight women.

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In the lawsuits, Pavlovich has alleged that she was homeless and living on a beach when she met Amanda Palmer in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2020.

Scarlett Pavlovich was 22 years old at the time.

According to the lawsuits, Palmer invited Pavlovich to the couple's home on Waiheke Island, after which the 22-year-old began running errands for them: babysitting their son and helping with chores, eventually becoming the couple's nanny.

Gaiman first sexually assaulted her the night they met in February 2022, Pavlovich alleged.

The assaults continued, but Scarlett Pavlovich kept working for the couple because she was broke and homeless, and Gaiman had told her he would help her writing career, according to the lawsuits.

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Pavlovich alleged that when she told Amanda Palmer about the assaults, Palmer told her that more than a dozen women had told her in the past that Neil Gaiman had sexually abused them .

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