In 2024, the musician Anna “Nesey” Gallons accused Julian Koster, a member of Neutral Milk Hotel, of grooming her and sexually assaulting her when she was a teenager. In a series of Instagram posts, Gallons wrote that she and Koster began a phone and email correspondence in 2000, when she was 15, and that he wrote that she was his “soulmate.” She also says that this turned into a sexual relationship and that he sexually assaulted her twice in 2005. In response, Koster said that he did, in fact, have a sexual relationship with the 16-year-old Gallons, but he also described himself as “the victim of intimidation, manipulation, and abuse by Nesey Gallons for many years.” Now, Koster has been granted a protection from abuse order against Gallons and her partner.
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