Lila Shapiro

2 months ago | vulture.com | Lila Shapiro

Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer in 2017. On Monday, Scarlett Pavlovich filed a lawsuit in federal court against the author Neil Gaiman on human trafficking charges under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, a law intended to curtail the crime in the United States and abroad. It additionally accused him of sexual abuse, assault, rape, and coercion. Gaiman has previously denied all allegations of nonconsensual sexual activity, which he has been accused of by multiple women.

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Lila Shapiro

2 days agoNetflix to end Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Sandman’ with season twoNetflix’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman will end with the upcoming season two.

2 months ago | jonronson.substack.com | Jon Ronson |Lila Shapiro

Last summer Rachel Johnson made a brilliant podcast for Tortoise Media, The Master, revealing for the first time the allegations against Neil Gaiman. It was nuanced and thoughtful while also being completely damning. Oddly, for such an important and well-made show about a topic with so much mainstream interest, the Master did not go viral. In fact almost no one talked about it. I recommended it, as did a few other people like David Aaronovitch – but the world was bizarrely quiet.

Jan 22, 2025 | nymag.com | Lila Shapiro

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Jan 13, 2025 | vulture.com | Lila Shapiro

Editor’s note: This story contains content that readers may find disturbing, including graphic allegations of sexual assault. Scarlett Pavlovich was a 22-year-old drama student when she met the performer Amanda Palmer by chance on the streets of Auckland. It was a gray, drizzly afternoon in June 2020, and Palmer, then 44, was walking down the street with the actress Lucy Lawless, one of the most famous people in New Zealand owing to her six-season stint portraying Xena the warrior princess.