Breaking News: Match.com Statement on Entertainment Executive Woman Suing Site
April 15, 2011 by Esteban Escobar
Filed under Breaking News, Featured, FEATURES
On Friday, April 15, 2011 Match.com we received via email response from Match.com public relations corporate office regarding our news inquiry on Entertainment Executive Woman Suing dating site Match.com for Male Sexual Assault. Here is what the response reads: “We are very disturbed to hear about this incident. While incidents like this one between individuals who meet on Match.com are extremely rare, it doesn’t make them any less horrifying. We ask all of our members to pay close attention to the safety tips for meeting offline that are on our website, so we can do everything possible to prevent this type of thing from happening again. There are steps you can take to protect yourself online and offline, whether you met someone on an online dating service, through an acquaintance, or at a bar.”
You can read about our prior posting story at http://diversitynewspublications.com/2011/04/entertainment-executive-woman-suing-dating-site-match-com-for-male-sexual-assault/
Photo credit to: Match.com Facebook Fan Page
Editor’s Note: The above male photo is of alleged sexual attacker Alan Paul Wurtzel
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Entertainment Executive Woman Suing dating site Match.com for Male Sexual Assault
April 14, 2011 by News Desk
Filed under Breaking News, Community, News
On Thursday, April 14th, 2011 Attorney Mark L. Webb announced that he filed at the Los Angeles Superior Court a civil lawsuit on Wednesday on behalf of his entertainment executive client identified only as Jane Doe vs. Match.com. The women met the Match.com member at the Urth Cafe in West Hollywood, CA last year and on the second date the man decided to follow her to her home and that is where he sexually attacked her.
Match.com is being suit by a victim who was sexually assaulted to begin protecting their subscribers from known sexual predators. On April 5th, a demand letter from her California attorney Mark L. Webb, Esq. was issued to Match.com’s legal counsel Marshall Dye and holding company IAC (Nasdaq: IACI) chairman Barry Diller. Mr. Webb has been retained by a successful entertainment executive, who wishes to be named as Jane Doe at this time, while she assertively calls for change to Match.com’s policies. Jane Doe claims she was brutally forced into oral copulation by another Match.com member who had been convicted six separate times for sexual battery.
Jane Doe, an Ivy League graduate, currently working in television and film, met Alan Paul Wurtzel, another Match.com member, on Match.com in 2010. According to Jane Doe, they set up a date, after which, Mr. Wurtzel viciously sexually assaulted her. Felony charges against Mr. Wurtzel are currently pending in the Los Angeles Superior Court. Basic screening would have revealed Mr. Wurztel’s prior history, banned him from Match.com and prevented this attack.
“This ordeal completely blindsided me because I had considered myself savvy about online dating safety,” states Jane Doe. “It started with what seemed like a pleasant date at Urth Café in West Hollywood. Things quickly turned into a nightmare, beyond my control. Match.com must begin to take some responsibility in protecting paying subscribers. I do not want this to happen to anyone else.”
Mr. Wurtzel was not a garden variety Match.com member. He was a serial sexual predator, as cursory examination of public records would have disclosed. His record in Los Angeles County, California at Central Arraignment Court (Case Number LAA5CR02442-01) alone indicates six separate convictions for sexual battery in the period preceding his attack on Jane Doe.
“Match.com should not permit its website to be used to facilitate meetings between innocent members of the public and convicted s exual predators who are easily discoverable, as was Mr. Wurtzel” states Mr. Webb. “We ask that Match.com voluntarily institute a basic screening process that disqualifies from membership anyone who has a documented history of sexual assault. This history could be rapidly uncovered through simple, inexpensive technological means, roughly estimated at less than five dollars a subscriber.”
The position of Mr. Webb and his client Jane Doe could lead to legal action, including a temporary restraining order requesting no further members be signed-up with Match.com, until s e xual predator screening is installed. The letter issued may be followed by preliminary injunction.
MySpace and Facebook agreed in 2008 to institute more stringent security standards. In 2009, MySpace, in response to a subpoena by the Attorneys General of Connecticut and North Carolina, provided names of 90,000 registered s e x offenders. According to the Safer Online Dating Alliance [saferonlinedating.org], Russell Research conducted a national survey of registered voters, which determined that there is significant support for criminal background screening legislation for online dating at a national level. Specifically, 77% of registered voters would support urgent passing of state legislation that makes it a requirement for online dating sites to prescreen members against criminal databases. Moreover, 83% of female registered voters would support the same legislation.
SOURCE: The Law Offices of Mark L. Webb
Editor’s Note: FYI: Match.com is also a dating site for Man to Man and we know their are other man, women, gay and bi dating and hook up sites similar to this one that their members are drug users and attack others sexually or for money.
As of date of this posting we have contacted Match.com Public Relations Department via telephone and left message asking for their response to this case. We will update posting as soon we heard from them.
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