Laura Michelle Owens & Greg Gillespie
June 2021 - October 2023: Scottsdale, Arizona
2021
June/July: Owens and Greg Gillespie go on three dates, after which he tells her he doesn’t want to continue dating.
After one of the aforementioned dates, Owens and Gillespie engage in sexual intercourse. Eleven days after their sexual encounter, Owens tells Gillespie that she is pregnant. Around this time, she also told Gillespie that she would let him have control of the outcome of the pregnancy if he committed to being in a relationship with her. Gillespie alleges that Owens stalked, threatened and harassed him during this time, including emailing his HR department. Source: OOP excerpt included below.
August 8: Owens sends photo of an ultrasound to Gillespie depicting her alleged pregnancy with his twins. Gillespie runs the ultrasound through a reverse image search and finds the photo posted to a years old blog.
August 11: Owens files a lawsuit against Gillespie for abortion coercion. According to court documents, Owens sent him a sonogram she purported to be hers, which Gillespie found online in someone else’s blog using reverse Google image search. It is his belief that she was never pregnant.
During this time, Owens also filed a bar complaint against her attorney after her attorney withdrew from the case.
August 12: Greg Gillespie files for Order of Protection (OOP) against Owens. He alleges that Owens attempted to get him fired from his job in retaliation for breaking up with her.
2022
January 6: TedX releases Laura Owens' talk on domestic violence and her relationship with Marraccini. The Lifesaving Power of Kindness to Strangers | Laura Owens | TEDxMercerIslandHSWomen — YouTube
March 4: Owens alleges she was drugged and sexually assaulted. (See exhibit 4 here.)
August 1: Owens emails the judge accusing Greg Gillespie and his attorney of being involved in the March 4th assault. [1] Owens alleges that the FBI was investigating the incident, but it is unable to independently verified, nor whether the alleged investigation resulted in anything. It is unknown if this alleged incident was reported to the police.
A hearing on Gillespie's Motion to Dismiss “CV 2021–052893 Owens v Gillespie” (the abortion coercion case in Maricopa County) is held on August 17.
The case was later dismissed by the judge on October 12.