Amanda Palmer, the musician and former associate of Neil Gaiman, has denied allegations of human trafficking and negligence made in a civil lawsuit filed by a girl who beforehand labored for the couple in New Zealand.
“I cannot reply to the precise allegations being made in opposition to me besides to say that I deny the allegations and can reply sooner or later,” wrote Palmer in an Instagram submit on Friday, including that her “coronary heart goes out to all survivors”.
On 3 February, Scarlett Pavlovich filed a lawsuit to district courts in Wisconsin, New York and Massachusetts accusing Gaiman of repeated rape and sexual assault, and Palmer of “procuring and presenting” her to Gaiman “for such abuse”.
9 girls have now accused Gaiman of sexual misconduct, eight of which have been interviewed for a New York Journal piece printed on 13 January.
The next day, Gaiman printed an announcement on his web site stating that he had “by no means engaged in non-consensual sexual exercise with anybody. Ever.”
Palmer and Gaiman, who married in 2011 and had a baby collectively in 2015, introduced in 2022 that that they had determined to divorce.
On 15 January, Palmer stated in an preliminary Instagram assertion that due to ongoing custody and divorce proceedings, she was unable to supply public touch upon the allegations. A consultant for Palmer informed NME that she “is profoundly disturbed” by the allegations in opposition to Gaiman.
The lawsuit states that Pavlovich met Palmer in Auckland in 2020, when Pavlovich was 22, and the 2 grew to become acquaintances. Pavlovich would typically run errands for Palmer, and finally grew to become the couple’s nanny.
The lawsuit alleges that Gaiman repeatedly sexually assaulted Pavlovich whereas she was working with out pay throughout a “three-week indenture”. On the time, she was “broke and homeless”, and Gaiman and Palmer “deliberately withheld” pay to maintain her “trapped, susceptible, and penniless”, it claims.
Pavlovich stated when she went to Palmer concerning the assaults, Palmer informed her that different girls had beforehand come to her about abusive sexual encounters with Gaiman.
The lawsuit states that Palmer “knowingly approached and procured the companies of Scarlett with reckless disregard for the truth that Gaiman would drive Scarlett to have interaction in industrial intercourse acts” with him.
“I thanks all deeply for persevering with to respect my current request for privateness as I navigate this extraordinarily tough second”, Palmer wrote in her submit on Friday. “I need to defend my younger baby and his proper to privateness.”
