A man is taking legal action against over 50 women for $2.6 million after they labeled him as a bad date on a ‘Are We Dating The Same Guy?’ Facebook page.
Stewart Lucas Murrey was the topic of a post on the Facebook group written by Kelly Gibbons, who encountered him on a dating app and chatted with him over a few weeks before deciding not to meet him in person. phone conversations with him over a few weeks before deciding against meeting him in person.
Gibbons wrote on the group’s Los Angeles page that Murrey was impolite in their initial phone call in February 2022 and cautioned the 10,000 other women in the chapter about him.’
‘I wouldn’t want my friend going out with someone like that,’ Gibbons told The Times of London.
Other women who apparently went on dates with Murrey then shared their experiences. The content even included a screenshot. Murrey became a hot topic for weeks on the page that now has 52,000 members.
A year after Murrey and Gibbons’ interactions cooled off, she met him in person for the first time – as he delivered the multi-million dollar lawsuit.
‘My heart started pounding, as I thought, this man knows where I live,’ Gibbons said of receiving the court summons in December.
‘It was pretty eerie. He was filming with his cell phone, walking in. I don’t know who wouldn’t get creeped out by that.’
Murrey personally delivered some of the suits to the women’s homes and named Gibbons and eight others. He referred to the other defendants as ‘Does 1-50’.
The defamation and policy lawsuit accuses the women of conspiring ‘to harm the plaintiff’s reputation’ and discriminating against him in the women-only group he was not able to join and respond to.
Murrey asserts that his past dates have caused him to miss out on jobs as well as damaged his love life.
On a subscription-only post in SickoScoop seen by The Times, Murrey shared that he started a GoFundMe page for his case and received support from other men.
The women also started a GoFundMe page to raise money to defend themselves.
One of the defendants, Vanessa Valdez, was the first to make a motion to have the case dismissed on the grounds of freedom of speech. She won.
On Monday, a judge in downtown Los Angeles, California, tossed Murrey’s suit against her. The judge did not find evidence of conspiracy and granted an Anti-SLAPP motion preventing individuals from twisting the legal system to silence people.
‘Just feels really good to be dismissed from all counts, it wasn’t just the two counts of defamation, but all 11 counts be filed against me,’ said Valdez, according to FOX 11.
The lead defendant, Gibbons, said she initially did not know what Murrey could sue her over because she ‘didn’t say anything about this man other than my experience’.
'She said it is very stressful and takes a lot of time, but it is valuable to do it to question the previous example.'
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