Stewart Lucas Murrey (right) is seeking $2.6million from more than 50 women he claims conspired to ruin his reputation (Pictures: FOX 11/Facebook)
A man is suing more than 50 women for $2.6million after they called him a bad date on a ‘Are We Dating The Same Guy?’ Facebook page.
Stewart Lucas Murrey was the subject of a post on the Facebook group written by Kelly Gibbons, who met him on a dating app and had text and 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 rude in their first phone date in February 2022 and warned 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.
Stewart Lucas Murrey claims he was discriminated against as a man because he could not join the all-women Facebook page and respond (Picture: X)
Other women who apparently went on dates with Murrey then wrote about 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 fizzled out, 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.’
Stewart Lucas Murrey personally delivered some of the lawsuits against the women (Picture: X)
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 claims his past dates have caused him to lose out on jobs as well as destroyed 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.
A Los Angeles judge has tossed Stewart Lucas Murrey’s lawsuit against one of the defendants, Vanessa Valdez (Picture: FOX 11)
The women also launched 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’.
‘It is incredibly stressful and time-consuming,’ she said, ‘But it’s worth doing, to challenge the precedent.’
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