Nomi appears to have given two conflicting statements about whether Danny Elfman had abused anyone else.
In the Beyond the Chameleon podcast published in Jan of 2022 (@32:29) Nomi said: "Then I found out it was not just me, it was of course never just us, its of course many others, dating... I think the one I heard that that dated... um, the farthest back that this person has been abusing was back in the 90s. A woman decided to share something about this person in question from the 90s. And I went oh my god, she went through the same thing I did in like 2016. Like a lot of this is just like stuff that's been going on for so long, and the fact that as a woman we're not even sure if people will believe us, despite the track record."
In the Empowered Artist Collective podcast published May 2, 2023 (@47:30) Nomi said:
"Yeah, this came from, the female composer safety league, FCSL, came from pretty- something pretty simple: I was, um, groomed and abused as soon as I became a film composer by someone I really admired who was, um, instrumental in my starting my career. And, um, at the very start of my career. But once I found my way out of that situation, I discovered that I was not the only one. Not- I don't know about this person, but I could tell you that this is a this is unfortunately something that I started hearing a lot about the more I started connecting with the women, especially, in my community."
Here, Nomi seems to say that by "not the only one" she did NOT mean that her abuser had other victims. She seems to clarify that she does not know if the person who abused her also abused others. She appears to further elaborate that by "not the only one" she just meant that she was not the only victim within the composing community, in general.
What happened to the woman from the 90's? What happened the "many others"? To Danny's implied "track record"? In the first podcast, Nomi even seemed to say that an abuser ALWAYS has multiple victims, and to imply that Danny having other victims besides herself made her claim more legitimate. Is this no longer true?
We wanted to be sure of the recording timeline of the two podcasts, to make sure the one published in May 2023 wasn't actually recorded prior to the other one and just not published until later. If that was the case, Nomi could have learned of this other victim between the two podcasts.
But that is not the case. We can be sure that the order is correct by looking at the timeline of Nomi's engagement and marriage, which she references in both podcasts.
Beyond the Chameleon podcast, published Jan of 2022: Nomi mentions she got engaged 2 weeks prior to the recording. Nomi posted her engagement photos to Facebook Jan 23, 2022.
Empowered Artist Collective podcast published May 2, 2023: Nomi references her husband. They got married May 21, 2022. In this podcast, she also says that she is 35. She actually would not turn 35 until July of 2023, but she was not even close to 35 before the Beyond the Chameleon podcast recording - she would have been 33. This confirms that Beyond the Chameleon, in which Nomi claims to know of at least one other victim of her abuser, was recorded first. And Empowered Artist Collective, in which Nomi says she "doesn't know about this person" having other victims, was recorded second. Maybe she just forgot.
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Nomi's episode of the Beyond the Chameleon podcast can be heard here. A full transcript can be accessed here. (This transcript was generated by AI and then edited for accuracy by a human, but errors may still exist.)
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