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Neil Gaiman Has loudly Vulture an arbitration action against One of the women submitted that him of sexual assault has accused. The author allegedly calls for over $ 500,000 from Caroline Wallner for alleged violation of a confidentiality agreement.
Wallner, a divorced mother of three children, lived and worked as a housekeeper on Gaiman’s estate in Woodstock, New York from 2014 to 2021. She claims that the author has started to abuse them in 2018 after Wallner’s marriage broken. And your ex-husband had left the property. Wallner, who had no income at the time, claimed that Gaiman had forced her to sex. To be able to stay on the property in return.
“There were small hints like ‘We will need the house’. And I remember that I said: Let’s talk about it. Let’s find a solution. Then he just came to my studio. And forced me to blow one in the podcast ‘Master: The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman’ from 2024.
In 2021, Gaiman Wallner paid $ 275,000 for the signing of a confidentiality agreement
Wallner also claimed that when she tried to oppose the author’s advances, Gaiman also suggested that his ex-wife Amanda Palmer wanted to have the house in which Wallner and her family lived. “But you take care of me. And I take care of you,” Gaiman told her, said Wallner.
Gaiman rejected Wallner’s allegations. He claims that she initiated the sexual encounters. (He also has All other allegations rejected against him.) In 2021, Gaiman Wallner paid $ 275,000 for the signing of a confidentiality agreement. She prevented her from filing a lawsuit or publicly talking about her allegations. The confidentiality agreement was reported when Wallner was the first time in the podcast “master“Said about it. Since then she has also had her allegations against Gaiman in the magazine“new York“Discussed.
In his new argument, Gaiman claims that Wallner had violated the confidentiality and defamation clauses of the confidentiality agreement. He calls for the full repayment of the original severance payment. Wallner’s ex-man is also mentioned in the lawsuit.
“I suspect that he feels that we are on his heels”
Vincent White, a lawyer from Wallner, gave opposite Rolling Stone an explanation. “Mr. Gaiman must have the feeling that he has nothing to lose. I suspect that we feel that we are on his heels. The idea that he would try to silence a woman who has already done so much is disgusting. If we read a similar action in one of his stories, we would think that he has worked out too much. true monster was. “
Representatives of Gaiman did not react immediately to a request for a statement. But a spokesman said opposite Vulture: “The alleged claims of Caroline Wallner are completely unfounded. We have no doubt that we will win in the arbitration process. And that Ms. Wallner has to bear the legal fees of Neil due to her procedure.”
While Wallner was looking for legal means to declare the confidentiality agreement to be void, she also submitted an arbitration against Gaiman last winter. She claimed that Gaiman’s lawyers, photos and text messages that she had sent to Gaiman during the alleged abuse, resigned from a clause in the confidentiality agreement that would have obliged all parties to annihilate such materials.