How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
Warning, this story is really horrific and will be heartbreaking for any fans of his, but Neil Gaiman is a sadistic [not in the BDSM sense] sexual predator with a predilection for very young women.
Yup, big fan of his work, really pissed off to find out he's such an asshole. But I'm glad we live in an era where creeps can get their due. Fuck this guy.
And then they tell you things that you were not there to witness. That is literally how communication works.
You just seem to think that people you meet in real life are less likely to lie to you than people in an article that shows that a huge amount of research was done and I'm not sure why.
In real life you can talk to people that you know and see things with your own eyes. This is better than essays written by anonymous people on the internet.
Statistically speaking, the likelihood of someone lying about sexual assault is low, a reasonable estimate being around 3-4%. When you have 9 separate people making the same claim, it gives credance to the idea that the odds of their claims being false is very low.
You also have a lot of downvotes because everyone else is far more likely correct. So there's that. This isn't a jury trial. He's not innocent until proven guilty in the court of public opinion.
I'd happily eat my words if reasonable doubt arose for half those cases. I want to like him because I like his work, but he legit has that kind of sordid and sad history that fucks people up.
Just be glad that his work stands on it's own without his hangups. After you find out the characters and themes Lovecraft used were because he was disgusted by interracial children it's a lot harder to keep that shit behind the fourth wall.