A California man is seeking $2.6 million from more than 50 women who shared negative stories about him on the Facebook page Are We Dating The Same Guy, claiming the reviews were false and defamatory. A lawsuit is being filed.
The women say Stewart Lucas Murray is using the lawsuit to blackmail them and are asking the court to strike him down.
On Monday, a Los Angeles Civil Court judge ruled that one of the women, Vanessa Valdez, did nothing wrong by sharing her opinions about Mr. Murray in a popular online group.
Kelly Gibbons, another woman sued by Mr. Marley, said she saw the man in person for the first time when he came to her home to drop the case.
“My heart started racing as I thought, “Maybe this person knows where I live?” she told The Times of London.
“It was pretty creepy. He was filming himself walking in with his cell phone. Who wouldn’t see that and not get creepy?”
Now, the women who were targeted by Murray, who say he ruined their dating lives and damaged their reputations, say the ruling sets a precedent that will prevent him from using the legal system against them any further. We hope to prevent this.
They are invoking a California law aimed at blocking junk lawsuits called the anti-SLAPP law.
After finding no evidence of collusion, the judge granted an anti-SLAPP motion to prevent abuse of the legal system to silence the women. FOX 11 LA reported.
Gibbons wrote the first post about Murray in the Los Angeles edition of “Are We Dating The Same Guy?” She met on a dating app and after a few weeks of messaging.
Gibbons spoke with Murray over the phone before deciding he didn’t want to meet her in person.
The interaction was so bad that she wanted to warn other women about his rude behavior, stating, “I don’t want any of my friends to date someone like that.”
Launched in New York City in 2022, the private Facebook group Are We Dating The Same Guy is part of a broader network of groups in which women share information about negative dating encounters they have experienced in their respective cities. This is the department. The Los Angeles chapter currently has approximately 53,000 members.
At the time of Gibbons’ post, only about 10,000 women belonged to the group. Nevertheless, other women have joined Mr. Gibbons in detailing their worst interactions with Mr. Murray, some sharing screenshots of interactions on dating apps and even dating in person. Some people looked back.
Others simply commented their reactions.
Although interest waned within weeks, nine of the women who posted about Murray were named in the lawsuit, and the rest are referred to as “Does 1-50.”
The women, most of whom did not know each other, “conspired to defame Plaintiff,” the suit says, and accused Plaintiff of denying her access to a women-only Facebook page. has been accused of discriminating against.
Murray is not the first man to file a lawsuit against a woman who shared a negative review on the page.
In January, Nikko D’Ambrosio, 32, filed a lawsuit against 27 Chicago women, alleging that they described D’Ambrosio as “very clingy” and a “ghostwriter” in a post.
The judge in Marie’s case said Monday that based on the evidence, the court found there was no chance that Marie would succeed on any of her claims.
The newspaper has contacted Murray for comment.
