A bachelor who sued 50 girls for calling him a nasty date turned up on the home of one of many girls although she by no means gave him her deal with.
Stewart Lucas Murrey went to the Los Angeles dwelling of Kelly Gibbons at 10.45pm and returned once more days later at 8.45pm.
CCTV photographs from the property seem to indicate him filming or taking pictures on his cell phone.
Gibbons had by no means met Murrey in individual and had solely briefly swapped messages with him on courting app Hinge earlier than texting.
Stewart Lucas Murrey, the Los Angeles bachelor who unsuccessfully sued 50 girls for placing his womanizing methods on blast
Murrey went to the Los Angeles dwelling of Kelly Gibbons at 10.45pm and returned once more days later at 8.45pm
Stewart Lucas Murrey at Gibbons’ dwelling with a good friend
Gibbons captured his visits to her home on a Ring digicam
However he tracked her down and turned up unannounced to serve her papers in a defamation lawsuit he filed in opposition to her at a court docket in Los Angeles.
In an e mail, Murrey claimed that he was the one to dam Gibbons over her ‘closely filtered footage’.
He defended turning up at her home late at evening to file the authorized papers.
Murrey mentioned: ‘A few the defendants have tried to evade service, even claiming they weren’t served once they truly have been.
‘Course of servers are very expensive when evasive defendants are concerned and people have been clearly the hours that she was accessible to be served by video proof’.
Murrey and Gibbons communicated over Hinge and in textual content messages for 3 weeks in 2022
Gibbons, 32, an artist and author, informed DailyMail.com that the incident was ‘disturbing’ and left her deeply anxious about returning to her dwelling.
In response to Murrey’s feedback about her pictures being filtered, she mentioned: ‘How does one decide the consequences of filters on a face they’ve by no means truly seen in individual?’
Gibbons is one in all 50 girls who Murrey, who calls himself a ‘scholar’, sued over his therapy in a viral Fb group referred to as: ‘Are We Courting The Similar Man?’ during which girls made unflattering feedback about him.
In keeping with his civil grievance, these posts left him affected by ’emotional misery’, PTSD and ‘mortification’.
He’s searching for $2.6 million in compensatory and punitive damages.
This week a choose dismissed the case in opposition to Vanessa Valdes, one of many 10 girls he named within the authorized papers, with the remainder within the strategy of submitting their very own motions to have the case thrown out.
‘Whereas I navigate this complicated case which includes a number of defendants in varied roles, I’m taking alternatives for procedural treatments arising from the deficiencies of (Valdes’ case being dismissed),’ Murrey informed DailyMail.com
‘In all lawsuits, there are ups and downs. However the energy ought to belong to the general public within the type of a jury trial’.
Gibbons informed DailyMail.com that she messaged Murrey on Hinge and texted him for 3 weeks in 2022 however it did not go anyplace.
‘When he was texting me it appeared extra logistical than I am used to in terms of making a connection,’ she mentioned.
The pair had a flirty trade on Hinge and have been teeing as much as meet when she acquired chilly toes
‘It didn’t really feel like an informal chat I might count on to have with somebody after matching on a courting platform.
‘I dragged it one for a few weeks longer than I ought to of to try to suss him out
‘There have been no fewer than 10 or 11 requests for a date, no less than 5 requests for Facetime.
‘He was overdoing it with the compliments on my look which made me uncomfortable’.
Texts between Gibbons and Murrey present him telling her: ‘I like your ink in your fairly hand’ and ‘I like your vibe’.
At one level he referred to as her ‘lovely, delicate, intriguing, chill, enjoyable’ and ‘lovely Kel’.
In a single textual content Murrey requested her if she was free that evening, however she replied that it was ‘kinda fast discover’.
Issues turned bitter the day earlier than they have been attributable to meet for the primary time.
Gibbons mentioned: ‘Then he referred to as me, an audio name. We might by no means spoken on the telephone earlier than.
‘We chatted for a minute after which he conferences referred to as his ‘lawyer’ onto the telephone. I assumed it was actually weird
‘I used to be OK, I’ve by no means spoken to him, he is calling me at 11am. As quickly as that occurred they started speaking to one another like I wasn’t on the telephone. I excused myself from the dialog.
‘I went on Hinge to examine his profile once more and I observed his profile wasn’t matched with me anymore.
‘I used to be shocked, we have been assembly the subsequent day, he didn’t have any cause to unmatch me.’
In a textual content, Murrey tried to brush it off by saying: ‘It is simply loopy, too many ladies lol’.
When Gibbons informed him she was ‘getting slightly nervous about assembly you for some cause’, he replied: ‘What’s your Insta? I will dm you’.
His subsequent message was: ‘Truly it is okay I am not likely on this anymore you are too erratic. I am not into dumb video games’.
When Gibbons informed him goodbye and that she hoped he would ‘discover what you’re on the lookout for’, he responded: ‘Take pleasure in complimenting your self if others do not lol’
Quickly after Murrey texted her once more, telling Gibbons that she had ‘violent temper swings’ and threatened to dam her.
Vanessa Valdes obtained these messages from Murrey, who sued her for defamation however her case was dismissed
A couple of months later, Gibbons found the ‘Are We Courting the Similar Man?’ Fb group, which was set as much as permit girls to warn different girls about males they’ve dangerous experiences with on dates or courting apps.
Her put up mentioned: ‘I am curious to see if anybody has met ‘Lucas’ in individual (I am undecided if that is even his actual title).
The put up went viral inside the Fb group, which was set to personal, with dozens of ladies commenting.
Gibbons mentioned: ‘In my put up I did not say something about him. It isn’t: ‘It is a man who did this’. I did not wish to make any assumptions. I’ve by no means met him.
‘The best way he spoke to me, I would not need my buddies being spoken to love that so I wished to see if anybody else had skilled one thing comparable’.
In February 2023, nearly a yr to the day after Gibbons blocked Murrey she acquired a message on Whatsapp from him.
Murrey sued 50 girls for defamation claiming they’d lied about him. The case was thrown out
In an obvious reference to the Fb group, it learn that he had ‘proof of your conspiracy to defame me’ and informed her she was being sued, including that her behaviour was ‘disgusting’.
In December that yr, Gibbons got here dwelling to search out some authorized papers on her again porch. She requested her constructing supervisor to evaluate the CCTV and noticed Murrey standing there at 10.45pm.
‘I wasn’t there on the time,’ Gibbons mentioned. ‘He confirmed up twice. December twelfth and December seventeenth, each instances dropping the papers out of an envelope
‘I by no means informed him the place I stay, I by no means gave him my deal with. He went out of his strategy to observe down the place I stay. It is disturbing.
‘The second time my roommate was dwelling and informed me that someone is knocking on the door however they did not reply.
‘He is holding his cellphone pointed at my home, my doorways and home windows.
‘It is alarming. It heightens nervousness round safety… my roommates requested if I would put up a no trespassing signal which I did.
‘I would quite not take into consideration how lengthy he could have spent monitoring down my dwelling deal with. I by no means even gave him my full title.
‘It is arduous to not be involved. When somebody is inciting fully baseless authorized motion in opposition to dozens of individuals attributable to – for my part – a bruised ego, that is what I think about an unpredictable individual’
Murrey insists that he was the sufferer all through
One other of the ladies who was sued by Murey was Valdes, however her case was thrown out underneath California’s anti-SLAPP laws, which is designed to fight nuisance lawsuits.
Her texts with Murrey present that he turned upset as a result of she had a male good friend in one in all her profile footage.
He wrote: ‘Why is there a man in your pic, genius?’
When she replied that she was ‘amused by the way you suppose you understand me nicely sufficient to speak to me like one your buddies’, he responded: ‘It is enjoyable watching you burn lol’
Valdes informed him she was ‘reporting your a**’ and informed him to ‘keep away from girls and get assist’.
Murrey replied: ‘Good Vanessa Loser I am subpoenaing you are fool ‘report’ and presumably suing you for defamation. Does it upset you that I’ve damaged no legal guidelines identical to it is authorized so that you can (be) a moron. By the way in which, actual first rate girls love me lol’.
One other message learn: ‘I am sorry your so jealous when rejected’.
Gibbons mentioned that she accepted service on Murrey’s lawsuit although it was improperly served to cease him coming again to her home once more.
She referred to as the case in opposition to her ‘frivolous’ and ‘baseless’ and mentioned she deliberate to file her anti-SLAPP movement quickly.
