The blue romper photo that the “Deja Stwalley” profile used was taken in 2014, when McGrath was teaching pre-kindergarten and on her way to attend a school picnic. "He checked a little checklist off and said fine, all right we'll take some pictures. Courtesy of Lauren McGrath 
 
 Six Seattle women came forward last week to allege that a Facebook profile known as “Deja Stwalley” solicited them with promises of a lucrative career in porn. Shearer, Bishop, and Maisie now believe that Stwalley doesn't exist and that the entire porn recruiter setup was a hoax orchestrated by Matt, the photographer women were asked to "audition" with in Seattle. Three of these women say that as part of Stwalley's scouting process, they were coerced into having a sex-based “audition” with Seattle tech journalist Matt Hickey. Shearer, Bishop, and Bronk have also positively identified photos of Hickey as the person who allegedly had sex with them. As I reported last week, Deja Stwalley was a real person's maiden name—but not a porn recruiter's. When The Stranger contacted her to ask if she knew anything about a Deja Stwalley who was a porn scout and worked with Hickey as a photographer, she said she knew nothing of the profile that contacted women online. “I feel really upset for [the women who say they were 'auditioned' by Hickey], and I feel gross that they now associate my face with being used and hurt and exploited,” McGrath, 24, told The Stranger. “I kind of laughed at first: Could you not just go to a bar to get laid? Washington, D.C. bouncer, freelance writer, and doula Lauren McGrath says that Stwalley’s Facebook photos—including the profile picture of Stwalley wearing a blue romper, Stwalley building a campfire, Stwalley playing with a cat, and Stwalley hugging someone—were stolen from her account. It wasn’t until I got to work tonight and sat down and read the article two or three more times…” 
 
 Now McGrath says that she’s considering legal action.
– The Stranger has a cautionary tale about an alleged scam to dupe young women into having sex. The newspaper reports that at least six women tell a similar story: They were solicited on Facebook by a person who called herself Deja Stwalley. She told them she was a recruiter for an indie porn studio, promised big money, and suggested they meet with her photographer friend Matt for an audition. Three actually did have sex with Matt, including then-19-year-old Allysia Bishop, who slit her wrists afterward in an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Now it appears the whole thing was an elaborate hoax. After some online sleuthing that involved examining IP addresses, the women say Matt created the fake Stwalley profile and impersonated her. The Stranger identifies him as freelance tech journo Matt Hickey, who has done work for the Seattle newspaper. "I agree it's weird and also ridiculous, but I'm sorry to say that at this point I can't talk about anything specific, though I may in the future," Hickey tells the paper in an email. The women have gone to police, but the case is in murky territory: They gave consent but under false pretenses. "[The detective] said everything that I'm telling him is really f----- up, but that there are no grounds for a sexual assault case," says Bishop. The police investigation is continuing. The Stwalley profile disappeared when the women began discussing their experiences in an online forum, though the newspaper tracked down a real "Deja Stwalley"—an old middle-school classmate of Hickey's who says he had a "weirdo crush" on her. They also found the woman whose photos were used without her knowledge for the profile. She doesn't know Hickey. Click for the full story.