New York attorney files bizarre lawsuit accusing Ben Affleck and Matt Damon of stalking and bugging her home to use her experiences in their work - and claims films like Maid in Manhattan and Gone Girl mirror her life

A New York attorney has filed a bizarre lawsuit accusing Ben Affleck and Matt Damon of stalking and harassing her to use private details of her life in their work by bugging her home.

Court documents obtained by DailyMail.com accuse Affleck and Damon of not only bugging the woman’s home but also hacking her devices, leaving her in fear she would be raped or kidnapped.

The lawsuit claims that her identity and personal experiences were used to develop SNL skits at the time Affleck was dating a producer Lindsay Shookus, and as well as in films produced by Harvey Weinstein.

She claims not to know when she became an ‘unwitting participant’ in their simulation, according to the suit filed in New York Supreme Court on Thursday, under the Adult Survivors Act.

Affleck’s brother, Casey, his now wife Jennifer Lopez, actor Kevin Smith, Ryan Seacrest and Weinstein are all accused of playing a part in the bizarre allegations.

She claims that work released in 2023 includes art which contains a reproduction of her ‘nude’, which she identified by a scar which is a ‘distinguishing characteristic’ of hers.

The action has been taken against Dimension Films, Disney, Lionsgate, Warner Bros and Paramount pictures, accusing them of being negligent and allowing the plagiarism and harassment to take place.

DailyMail.com did not immediately receive a response when reaching out to representatives of the companies or Affleck, Lopez, Damon, Seacrest, Smith and Weinstein.

The woman, who has not been named in the filings, claims that she only became aware of the similarities between her own life and the shows after watching several consecutively while injured.

She was left with substantial scars after a car accident in 1985, and suffers from short-term memory loss and physical limitations.

In 2001 she joined Damon and Affleck’s website, Project Greenlight, which was set up for writers to discuss their ideas and view contest submissions.

Her lawsuit states she saw similarities in her life on SNL and Mob Wives between 2010 to 2011.

The court documents claim that she watched Maid in Manhattan (2002) on repeat after recovering from an injury, and noticed several similarities between herself and Lopez’ character.

It also states that Gone Girl, which stars Affleck, had events and dialogue which mirrored her life, as well as several other shows and films. 

She claims that patterns in the works include characters with her first name or similar, and who are similar to her in appearance – ‘dark bobbed or shoulder length hair with bangs, are gap-toothed, and wear candy-cane colors.’

The Weinstein Company is accused of repeatedly using her identity in The Details (2011), Spy Kids 4-D: All the Time in the World (2011); Scream 4 (2011); The Railway Man (2013), The Butler (2013), St. Vincent (2014), Big Eyes (2014), Snowpiercer (2014), Bad Santa 2 (2016) and Amityville Awakening (2017).

‘These allegations are corroborated by the fact that three of them use her first name or derivatives of it, another filmed in her neighborhood, several include the boxcutter, others include hourglasses, and one includes her birthday,’ according to the court documents.

The suit goes on to claim that characters had clothes or other belongings identical to hers, referenced her likes and dislikes including ‘high thread-count sheets, squirrels and cats’.

She claimed music artists she listened to including Simon & Garfunkel, philosophers she referenced and a KFC she lived near were also mentioned.

Images of her belongings including a blue and red plaid bag, red Swiss army knife and a silver-gray boxcutter also allegedly appeared in works.

Hourglasses, phoenixes and owls, as well as images of women nude but for a sheet over them are also detailed as ‘repeating patterns’ in more than 40 films and shows.

The plaintiff also alleged that Affleck and Lopez mirrored her life personally with claims including the couple bought a home in Savannah, Georgia after she applied for a job there and that Lopez bought a dog and a horse which she wanted.

She added that on June 9, 2014, she had tried on clothes which did not fit before Lopez performed ‘Tight Pants’ on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

The lawsuit alleged that Damon quoted her during an address at MIT in June 2016 and that Affleck adopted a Husky and wore a t-shirt with the pyramids on it days after she said in 2017 phone calls that she wanted to adopt a rescue dog and see the pyramids.

The woman worked for Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP in 2003, when the firm reportedly settled claims against the Weinsteins, Miramax and Disney.

Court documents also claim that she saw Affleck several times between 2001 to 2003, in a laundromat, driving a Pearl Cadillac and in Atlantic City where he was ‘watching her’.

She claims that Damon began seeing the same dentist as her in 2009, with several projects being filmed close to her home the following year.  In 2015 she was asked if her home could be used as a film location.

Affleck is accused of stalking the woman from 2002, when her car was broken into, with her witnessing his car outside her office and an event she attended in 2004 and 2005.

She alleges she saw Affleck walking in front of her New York City home in 2007 and saw Damon walking on a nearby street in the middle of 2009.

The plaintiff claims she saw Affleck walking towards her in Manhattan in January 2019 and that he boarded her subway car in Brooklyn in April 2019. She claimed she saw Damon standing outside a restaurant she ate in for twenty minutes.

She said she was told about the celebrity dating app Raya in October 2019 before Affleck began using it.

The plaintiff appeared in front of a judge in October 2019 and claimed the next SNL episode featured a courtroom sketch with the host resembling and acting like the same judge.

She said she had an allergic reaction in December 2019 and that Lopez also had one on SNL.

The plaintiff added that in early 2020, Affleck wore a similar jacket to one she had and that actress Ana de Armas wore identical clothes that she had worn the day before.

She found a bug, saw an owl-shaped camera pointed at her home, woke to find a man in her bedroom and saw a man pointing a telescope at her after an alert that her emails had been hacked, according to the suit.

Additionally, she claims she got a call from a man who sounded like Affleck in 2017, saying she was being watched in her home. She claims she saw Affleck and Damon several times in Manhattan in 2019.

Between 2020 and 2022 the woman claims that she saw Affleck several times, and saw a Range Rover similar to the one the actor owned on her street, as well as accusing him of ‘taking a picture’ of her on the subway.

She claims she has been left with ‘severe emotional distress’, after being depicted as ‘a prostitute, stripper, promiscuous, drug addict’ and accused the group of ‘disclosing embarrassing facts.’

Her lawsuit states that she feared for her life after hearing ‘snitches get stitches’, repeatedly as well as references to kidnap, rape and murder.

The woman is asking for undisclosed compensatory damages, to exceed the jurisdiction of lower courts.

A separate lawsuit was filed by the woman in November 2022, which was dismissed in 2023. Her new suit states that the New York filing has updated allegations to those made the year prior.