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Monday, July 29, 2024 

A 3rd victim of Neil Gaiman has come forward (update: 2 more have stepped forward)

As discovered through this post on X: From the podcast page itself, if you can put aside the throughly unnecessary use of pronoun absurdity, the synopsis reads:
Claire (she/her) uses a pseudonym to share her story about being groomed and sexually coerced and manipulated by world-renowned author Neil Gaiman. We discuss the power of stories and fame, and she shares how journaling, therapy, and friendships have helped her find her center in her own story. We originally spoke in 2022, and at that time she decided she wasn't ready, but said that if other survivors came forward, she would join them. Several weeks ago two women came forward and shared abuse stories about Neil Gaiman. Claire reached out to me to support herself and them and all survivors by sharing her story today.
It sounds like he really subjected her to psychological abuse of the worst kind, trying to discourage her from saying anything. Which gives a whole new meaning to a victim of sexual violence becoming too scared and ashamed to tell about it. Shame on Gaiman indeed.

So that's the 3rd plaintiff to speak out against the overrated scribe. It'll remain to be seen how many more women speak out against Gaiman by the end of the year.

Update: also for the record, Fandom Pulse has some more details about fishy content that turned up in Gaiman's Sandman series. Based on what's becoming known about him, it's not a surprise.

Update 2: Tortoise Media's published accounts of at least 2 more victims of Gaiman, bringing the number of victims so far up to 5. One of the plaintiffs said:
Around the time Wallner’s marriage ended in 2017, which she said devastated her emotionally, Gaiman told her ex-husband that there was no more work for him on the property, which had provided the family’s main income. Wallner and her daughters were now dependent on Gaiman for work and housing. While she was in this situation, Wallner, then 55, said that Gaiman began pressuring her for sex.
So he took advantage of a women who was married and had children? This case gets a lot sicker. The 2nd plaintiff, who was attacked in 1986, said:
In what Hobsbawm said was “an aggressive, unwanted pass”, Gaiman “jumped” on her “out of the blue”, forced his tongue into her mouth, and pushed her onto her sofa, before she wriggled free. Hobsbawm said she then cut off contact with Gaiman. She says she now wished she had called Gaiman out back then as she is plagued by the incident to this day and worries that she enabled his alleged misconduct to continue.

[...] While Hobsbawm’s allegation might appear less serious than other allegations against Gaiman, English criminal law defines sexual assault as one person intentionally and sexually touching another without their consent, and that there is no reasonable belief by the alleged perpetrator in the other person’s consent. It does not necessarily involve violence, but it can cause severe emotional distress, which is why authorities treat it seriously – and why Hobsbawm said she remembers the incident.
This too is very disturbing. Thank goodness the victims are now willing to speak out.

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