Musician accused of human trafficking alongside ex Neil Gaiman A lawsuit filed by Scarlett Pavlovich against the musician Amanda Palmer and writer Neil Gaiman in the US has accused the famous artists of human trafficking.
The lawsuit alleges that Palmer then offered Pavlovich a job as a live-in nanny for herself and Gaiman, who offered to use his industry prestige to help their new nanny in her writing career.
Pavlovich alleges that, when she was 22, Palmer befriended her while she was homeless, promised her a live-in childcare job and withheld pay, while Gaiman allegedly sexually assaulted their young and vulnerable employee.
The alleged events took place in New Zealand, but the lawsuit has been filed in Wisconsin where Gaiman currently lives, as well as New York and Massachusetts, the states where Palmer, an American citizen, is thought to be living at the moment.
Palmer and Gaiman did not “forget to pay Scarlett”, according to the charges, but “intentionally withheld Scarlett’s pay” in order to “have Scarlett trapped, vulnerable, and penniless”.
