Man sues 50 women who called him a bad date

A man is suing more than 50 women for $2.1million (£1.6million) after they shared their dating experiences with him on the Facebook group ‘Are We Dating the Same Guy?’.

Kelly Gibbons posted about Stewart Lucas Murrey in the Los Angeles version of the group in 2022, telling how they had matched on a dating app, exchanged texts for a few weeks and then had a phone call before she decided she did not want to meet him in person.

She alleged that he was rude during their call and wanted to warn other women about him, later telling The Times: “I wouldn’t want my friend going out with someone like that.”

Several of the group’s 10,000 members chimed in, with others also sharing their experiences with Mr Murrey.

One posted a screenshot of their messages and another spoke about their in-person date together.

Those who contributed to the online conversation are now involved in Mr Murrey’s lawsuit with nine of them named, including Ms Gibbons who is the lead defendant.

Mr Murrey has accused the women, the rest of whom are referred to as Does 1-50, of “conspiring to harm the plaintiff’s reputation” – despite the fact that none of them knew each other.

He also alleges that he is being discriminated against as a man because he was not able to join the women-only group and defend himself.

Several of the women claim Mr Murrey delivered his lawsuit to their homes himself, something Ms Gibbons said “creeped her out”.

When The Times approached Mr Murrey for comment, he declined, asking instead for his subscription-only writings on SickoScoop to be referenced.

SickoScoop is a site to find and support “writers, artists, everyone” on a platform which is “powered by a new world money system”, that is one with “no deep state money and no deep state censorship”.

On the platform, he says that he was “harassed, doxed, gang-stalked and cyberbullied”.

He also linked to his fundraiser, trying to gather money for his legal fees, where he set out his position.

Mr Murrey wrote: “I support a safe space for women to protect themselves against being stalked, harassed or harmed, and not the other way around.

“These women exploited the concept of a safe space to gossip, defame and cyberbully anyone at whim. The acts of these defendants are hate-filled and unrelenting.”

He has so far raised more than $5,000 (£3,947) of his $60,000 (£47,369) goal.