In a podcast last summer, two women accused Neil Gaiman, the popular and influential comic book author and fantasy novelist, of sexual assault. Since then, others have stepped forward with similar allegations.

Amanda Palmer is “profoundly disturbed” by the sexual-assault and abuse allegations against her estranged husband, Neil Gaiman, but “she has no comment” on them, a representative said. As multiple women accused Gaiman of assault and abuse in New York ’s latest cover story,