Angry women sue doctor for online dating lies

A Manhattan fertility specialist has been sued by two women who say he broke their hearts after meeting them through an online dating site on which he pretended to be single.

In their lawsuits, the two women, Tiffany Wang and Jing Huang, accused Dr Khaled Zeitoun, 46, of pretending to be single and using mind games to entice them into sexual relationships with tales of past lives.

According to papers filed in the Manhattan Supreme Court and made public this week, Zeitoun is married with three children.

Wang said she had met him in March 2001, through a website on which he said he was single and had never married. 'Zeitoun claimed he and Wang had been married to each other in previous lives,' Wang's lawsuit said, adding that the doctor had told her he mistreated her in that life and าsearched for her in this lifetime to correct his past mistakesำ.

Wang says that in May 2002, he asked her to marry him but only proposed 'to see the look of joy on her face'.

In a separate suit filed earlier this year, Huang said she had met the reproductive endocrinologist in October 2003, through an online dating service. He fed her a similar line about being single and having been married to her in a previous life. Huang eventually realised he was cheating on her and the relationship ended in July 2004.

Both women are seeking unspecified damages for infliction of severe emotional distress 'outside the boundaries of human decency and social norms'.

In a written response to the court papers filed by Huang, Zeitoun admitted that he had told her he was single and had had relationships with other women he met on the Internet.