Renowned Novelist Neil Gaiman Counters The Sexual Allegation Made Toward Him.

Neil Gaiman, famous for his works including The Good Omen, Caroline, and The Sandman is charged with allegations. Earlier in the news, sources reported sexual assault allegations charged against the British novelist Neil Gaiman by two respective women of non-consensual acts.

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The Good Omen writer  is charged with allegations of having non-consensual acts with two women, aged 23 and then, 18. The sources earlier on, reported that both women’s complaint says that the American God author has violated their extremity to rival in “rough and degrading sex”, with them while they were otherwise in a consensual relationship with him, subjecting him to a police complaint in New Zealand.

What are the allegations?

 The complainers Scarlett, 23, and K, then 18 tell their side of the story in the four-part podcast, ‘Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman’, released on Wednesday, produced by the British outlet Tortoise Media, where Scarlett alleges that during their three-week relationship in Gaiman’s New Zealand residence in February of 2022, they were engaged in sexual acts. The sources from the Tortoise confirm these allegations as they match the text messages sent from Scarlet.  

The second complainer, who has been identified as K says she was 18 when she met Gaiman at a book signing in Sarasota, Florida. But got together with him when she turned 20 and him in his mid-40s.  She claims that they were engaged in painful intercourse that “she neither wanted nor enjoyed.” She also recalls suffering from a painful infection during that time.

Neil Gaiman responds to these allegations.

 To these allegations, Gaiman has responded by claiming the accusation to be false and ill-fed. Gaiman. He stated that the allegations made against him were all pretense and intention. He denies both the allegations coming from these women. According to the sources collected by The Tortoise, Gaiman seems to stand by the belief that her complaints by Scarlett were because of her ill condition allied with false memories at the period of their relationship, Gaiman also notes that the New Zealand police department did not give him much attention regarding Scarlett’s complaint which he states, “reflects its lack of substance”, whereas the allegations projected by K  would be her way to express regret over their love. 

The 20-year-old allegations involve women who were minors at the time they came into contact with Gaiman, 63, a bestselling author best known for The Sandman comic book series and novels Good Omens and American Gods.

In 2008, Gaiman was listed as one of the hundred “most influential people in the world” by Time. Known for taking comics truly into the world dream large style, he has been heralded as:“the most popular living writer throughout countries and languages. It is that which has been successfully adapted to Netflix and Amazon mini-series, Hollywood films and West End shows alongside the book. According to The Tortoise, the last annual Tolkien Lecture at Oxford University was given by him and he also kicked off this season of the Queen’s Reading Room podcast.

The British writer has been actively contributing to the literature world with his children’s stories, novels, and TV adaptations for a quarter of a century now. Being the winner of a literary award in 1991 for the World Fantasy Award for Sandman, his work crosses genres, narration, readers, and viewers of all ages.