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J.K. Rowling Compares Neil Gaiman To Harvey Weinstein As ‘Sandman’ Author Faces More Sexual Assault Claims
The Harry Potter creator has a pretty harsh but insightful comparison after additional sexual assault claims against Neil Gaiman emerge
No stranger to controversy, criticism and accusations of being transphobic from her strident views on gender identity and the transitioning of minors, Rowling pinned initial reactions to allegations against the once acclaimed Gaiman to incarcerated rapist Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo outburst against the much-accused Pulp Fiction producer. Building on information and elements originally put forth last summer in Tortoise Media’s six-part podcast ‘Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman,’ New York Mag’ s often explicit “There Is No Safe Word” by Lila Shapiro spoke to eight women in total, three who had never gone public. Currently under medical supervision awaiting a new East Coast criminal trial on multiple sex crimes, Weinstein was quickly shunned and condemned by the industry after a late 2017 New York Times expose on the decades of abuse and rape he had inflicted upon young women in and out of Hollywood.
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