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The lawyers of Neil Gaiman Have an application for dismissal of the Complaint about sexual assault in Wisconsin submitted, submitted by a former Nanny, Scarlett Pavlovich.
Pavlovich sued Gaiman last month in Wisconsin, New York and Massachusetts. She accused the author of rape and sexual assault. She also accused Gaiman’s ex-wife Amanda Palmer “conveying her for such abuse to Gaiman and presenting him”. Pavlovich’s lawsuit followed after they their story dem New York Magazine had told. Eight by Gaiman’s adhesions spoke for this story. Gaiman has rejected all accusations against him.
Together with the application for dismissal, Gaiman filed his own judicial declaration. In the Pavlovich he describes as “fantasist who invented a history of abuse”.
“Pavlovich enthusiastically participated”
Two systems that are filled with text messages between him and Pavlovich from the period from 2022 to early 2023 are attached to the new application from Gaiman. Gaiman claimed that the news “show in Pavlovich’s own words that our relationship was mutual and that Pavlovich was an enthusiastic participant who initiated many of our sexual encounters”.
Pavlovich claimed that Gaiman raped her for the first time in February 2022 in a gardening bath in Gaiman and Palmer in New Zealand. She claimed Gaiman offered her to use the bathtub. What she accepted. But then she was surprised when Gaiman came back naked, climbed into the bathtub with her. And supposedly entered her with his fingers and tried to do this with his penis.
In his explanation, Gaiman addressed this alleged incident. He claimed that he had “invited Pavlovich to take a bath with him”, and “not forced it”. He claimed that the two in the bathroom had “spoken about consent” and Pavlovich told him that she was “open to a sexual relationship” with him.
“We cuddled and made in the bathroom”
“We cuddled and made around in the bathroom,” said Gaiman. “Then we returned to the house and dealt with other sexual activities. Although we had no sex back then or at any later point in time. At no point or did Pavlovich said something that made me believe that she was not a willing participant in the activities. ”
One of the texts submitted by Gaiman was a message that Pavlovich had sent him after this first encounter. And in which she wrote: “Thanks for a nice, nice night ~ Wow X.”
Pavlovich has admitted that she did not see what had supposedly happened to her as rape or assault. In your interview with New York, For example, she remembered that she was confused after the first alleged attack. She said, “You don’t think linear or logical. But the mind tries to process it as it can. “
One of the texts submitted by Gaiman include another exchange from March 2022, which is in history From New York Has been referred to. Gaiman announced Pavolvich that he was concerned that one of her friends “spread all the stuff about me that I raped you” and “I who speaks threats”.
“It was mutual (and wonderful!)”
Pavlovich replied, among other things: “It was mutual (and wonderful!)”. And added that she thought her friend was “triggered by anything”.
When they have the exchange with new York Discussed, said Pavlovich, she felt “separated from everyone else” at that time. And fears to annoy Gaiman.
Pavlovichs suit Contains other alleged cases in which Gaiman attacked, raped, abused and humiliated them. These include cases in which the author supposedly “forced them to sexual behavior in front of Gaiman’s child and forced them to touch and lick feces and urine”. She described many of them as “non -mutual sexual acts”.
Gaiman denied this in his new complaint. He stated that Pavlovich reported her accusations to the police in New Zealand in November 2022. Gaiman claimed: “These accusations were thoroughly examined by the New Zealand police. No charges were raised. At the beginning of April 2024, the New Zealand police completed the investigation. ”
He also claimed that Pavlovich’s complaints’ aim to force me to get an unjust financial agreement.
Pavlovich’s lawyers have the request from Rolling Stone not answered immediately.