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20th March 2024
03:08pm GMT
The women all realised they were seeing the same man after posting on the Facebook group "Are We Dating The Same Guy?".
However, Stewart Lucas Murrey, the man in question, is suing the women for defamation after they discussed him online.
The women he dated are facing a $2.6 million (£2 million) lawsuit in damages.
They are fighting the case by saying that they did nothing wrong, and because their opinions were based on truth. Additionally, the comments were shared on a private Facebook group, which is protected for defamation.
"It's very bizarre; the accusations are baseless," Vanessa Valdez, one of the women being sued, said.
Valdez never went on a date with Murrey as she was repulsed by his messages, with him even calling her a moron in one.
"Everything I said was just my experience with him and my opinions on how I think, you know, he should not be on dating sites," she continued, per Fox 11.
"I think he's trying to silence all the women who are talking about him," she added.
Another woman who dated Murrey, Olivia Burger, said that he was not even a particularly nice date.
"He seemed, in my opinion, pretty smug and very arrogant. The entire date, he was putting me down for various things, my job included," she said.
"This is not his first lawsuit, it's not his second lawsuit, it's not his fifth lawsuit. He has a pattern, and it seems to me that that pattern is most often directed towards women," Burger added.
Murrey declined to comment to Fox 11, but directed them to a now-deleted statement that he has issued.
"This action is not a game, and the accusations against the defendants are serious," it read.
"For years keydefendants obsessively tracked, stalked and incited harassment against me. These are women with whom I had little to no interaction.
"In every case of interaction, I rejected each one of them and cut them off, quite swiftly.
"Instead of going their separate ways, they went on for months and years to spread misinformation about me and countless others. Their actions were deliberate, and they are now playing the victims."
He went on to slam the Facebook group in question.
"The Facebook groups denied me and countless other our right to exercise freedom of speech by denying us access to said Facebook groups so we could defend ourselves," he wrote.
"I believe the moderator, Paola Sanchez, is jeopardising both women and men. She is only self-interested and will help herself, not you.
"It is a shame that she leads a rather large group of women who are from various backgrounds, many that might not have the best intentions or acumen."
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