“Upon information and belief, Defendants conspired to create the Google Spreadsheet entitled ‘Shitty Media Men’ and circulated the link to the List via email, without password protection, for the stated purpose of encouraging the female recipients to anonymously publish allegations of sexual misconduct by men,” reads the complaint. It accuses Ms. Donegan and the other authors of the list of taking action “solely to damage Plaintiff’s reputation and career.” At the same time, many people did. Mr. Elliott, an author based in New Orleans, whose name appeared on the list highlighted in red to signify that multiple women had accused him of “physical sexual violence,” said in a lawsuit that the information about him on the list was “abusive, vulgar, intentionally misleading as well as damning to the Plaintiff’s reputation and good name.” 
 
 The suit, which was reported by Jezebel, was filed in federal court on Wednesday. Elliott’s name appeared next to several anonymous accusations on the spreadsheet, ranging from “rape” to “unsolicited invitations to his apartment.” Earlier this month, he published a nearly 2,600 word long essay titled “How an Anonymous Allegation Derailed My Life” in which he vehemently denied the allegations and described the effects the spreadsheet has had on his life.  Photo: GERARD JULIEN/AFP/Getty Images 
 
 Stephen Elliott, a New Orleans–based writer is suing Moira Donegan, the creator of the Shitty Media Men List for libel and emotional distress. When you couldn't find me you refused to come to the magazine party. I sent her a note asking if we could speak, at a place of her convenience, alone or in the presence of witnesses, either on or off the record—however she preferred. That same day, one of his former co-workers responded to Elliott’s defense on Twitter.
– The women who anonymously contributed to a list of men in media accused of sexual misconduct could have their identities revealed if writer Stephen Elliott gets his way. He's one of 74 males included in the Google spreadsheet "S---ty Media Men" that circulated last October, and he filed a lawsuit Wednesday against its creator, Moira Donegan, alleging libel and emotional distress. He's seeking at least $1.5 million in damages and wants to sue anonymous contributors, too, reports The Cut. The lawsuit, describing Elliott's plan to subpoena Google metadata in order to obtain information that could identify contributors, refers to allegations of rape, coercion, and "unsolicited invitations to his apartment" as "wholly unsubstantiated" and "intentionally misleading," per the New York Times. Elliott denied the allegations in an essay late last month. "I don't like intercourse, I don't like penetrating people with objects, and I don't like receiving oral sex," he wrote, adding the allegations made him return to drugs. They "derailed my life," he said, though he acknowledged the spreadsheet was closed after 12 hours and included a disclaimer: "This document is only a collection of misconduct allegations and rumors. Take everything with a grain of salt." ("Nobody did," he wrote.) A former coworker responded to that essay on Twitter, claiming she once "hid under a table" as Elliott "hounded" her to visit his hotel room. "Later you grabbed me under the guise of taking money from mug sales out of my back pocket," she wrote. (Donegan recently spoke out about Jian Ghomeshi's return to the spotlight.)