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Elon's Spies | Tortoise Investigates

The fan | Master Ep 4

Elon's Spies | Tortoise Investigates

Tortoise Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.65.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The second woman to allege Neil Gaiman sexually assaulted her first met him as an 18-year-old fan. They began a consensual sexual relationship two years later. She alleges he was abusive and once penetrated her without her consent. He strenuously denies any unlawful behaviour and maintains all their sex was consensual.


Reporter: Paul Caruana Galizia and Rachel Johnson

Producer: Katie Gunning

Additional reporting: Jess Swinburne

Original music and sound design: Tom Kinsella

Series editor: Matt Russell

Editor: Jasper Corbett


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Tortoise.

0:07.0

Before we begin, I just need to warn you.

0:10.0

This is a hard listen at times. The episode contains graphic descriptions of sex and allegations of sexual abuse.

0:24.0

How are you?

0:25.0

I'm good, how are you?

0:27.0

I'm all right.

0:29.0

Our journey into the world of comics

0:32.0

has led us to a woman in Atlanta in the United States.

0:36.7

She's recently moved house and came across an old digital camera.

0:41.8

She thinks there's something important on it and so plugs it into her computer.

0:47.4

And she finds dozens of images of her and New Gameman. Some intimate, some sexual even. Photos she says he told her that she

0:58.0

shouldn't have. She creates a new folder and calls it evidence and files away the images.

1:06.0

Maybe one day I'll be able to tell that story, she thinks.

1:10.0

Maybe one day I'll get a call, an email, one day, maybe.

1:15.0

A week later my email landed in her inbox.

1:20.0

She says the two events, finding the camera, the email, set off an emotional storm and so she agrees to talk.

1:30.0

But she's cautious.

1:33.0

To verify my identity, she asks me to send her a photo of me holding up an email she sent me.

1:40.0

I never wanted any of the stuff he did to me including the more violent stuff

1:45.1

But I did consent to it, you know

1:48.1

She's now in her late 30s, but the story she tells us dates back 20 years and hinges on the same allegations as

1:56.5

Scarlet Consent, Rough Sex, Emotional Manipulation, Exploitation, all the He Said She Said emotional manipulation, exploitation.

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