The best-selling author Neil Gaiman and his estranged wife were sued by a New Zealand woman who is seeking millions of dollars for alleged sexual abuse and human trafficking while she worked for them as a nanny and babysitter,

Neil Gaiman and his estranged wife Amanda Palmer were sued by Scarlett Pavlovich, a former nanny who claims Gaiman sexually assaulted her multiple times when she worked for the former couple in New Zealand.

Scarlett Pavlovich filed a lawsuit in federal court against the author Neil Gaiman on human-trafficking charges under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, a law intended to curtail the crime in the United States and abroad.