Tautus

Hello, it's Claudia here and you're listening to the slow newscast from Tautus.

Last year, Tautus published a podcast series called Master, the allegations against Neil Gaiman.

Five women accused the best-selling fantasy author of assaulting them.

It was a complicated and difficult story which shone a light on the nature of consent

within an existing relationship.

Now, one of those women has filed a lawsuit in the United States against both

Neil Gaiman and his estranged wife, Amanda Palmer. Rachel Johnson picks up the story.

It was a while back in October 2023 when Scarlett Pavlovich first contacted me.

When I reached out to you, the fear that this maybe was a one-off kind of,

was a one-off event, you just never know, right?

Scarlett had filed a police report in New Zealand,

alleging that Neil Gaiman had assaulted her,

but felt that New Zealand's police were dragging their heels.

So when she got in touch, it was in part

because she felt she had nowhere else to go.

And, you know, I stepped over those guardrails

and I walked down that trail

and believed in you and believed in Paul

and believed in Tortoise.

With poor Caruana Galicia,

then a reporter at Tortoise now at the Financial Times,

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