Influencer Sara Gilson filed three protective orders against Jeremiah Duffey — the first and second were filed five years ago and the third was filed one month before he allegedly killed her in an apparent murder-suicide.
According to court documents obtained by Us, Gilson filed her first request in August 2021, claiming she was the victim of domestic violence, abuse and harassment.
“[On] July 31, [I] found hidden camera in my room, which caused a fight. He grabbed his gun and threatened suicide,” Gilson alleged in court docs. “He held me down by my arm, which resulted in bruising. He’s destroyed stolen property. Mentally and verbally abuses me. Continues to threaten to kill himself or lie to the cops and tell them I punched him if I filed a [protective order].”
Gilson also alleged that Duffey — who filed for bankruptcy in 2024 — tried to physically remove her from rooms in her own home.
“[He] comes in my room while I sleep, forces me to kiss him and calls, texts all day,” she alleged. Her request for a protective order was ultimately dismissed just weeks later on September 7, 2021.
On September 28, 2021, Gilson filed a second petition against her ex-fiancé, claiming domestic violence, stalking and harassment.
In court documents obtained by Us, she alleged that Duffey “showed up at my house, came inside, refused to leave [the] property. Got into a truck parked in [the] driveway that did not belong to him. Grabbed me and forced me to kiss him.”
She alleged while in her driveway that he “screamed, threatened, put hands on me. Since that night, he has called my friends, family and place of business. He emails me, calls my work, my ex-husband. [He] threatens to kill himself, has his mom message me. [He] calls, texts nonstop, and even when blocked he finds a way.”
“I don’t feel safe and things keep getting worse,” she continued to allege in court documents. He drives by my house every night and messages any guy I try to date or talk to.“
Less than a month later, she filed to dismiss the protective order and the court ordered the dismissal on December 15, 2021.
“[He] has left me alone, and I have no need to worry about his harassment or stalking and have no concern as of now,” she claimed at the time.
Last month, Gilson filed for an emergency protective order against Duffey according to court records obtained by Us.
In her petition filed on June 10, that went into effect the same day and was extended through August 24, she claimed that Duffey had a “firearm on him” and “went on the run.” And at the time, police were searching for him.
She also referred to “pedo charges” in the docs.
In a separate protective order also filed on June 10, a mother in Oklahoma alleged that Duffey had inappropriately touched her 15-year-old daughter at basketball practice.
According to the filing, Duffey was accused of “child abuse” after a fellow basketball coach “observed through a window” that Duffey was “kissing and fondling” the minor on June 9 while taking private meetings with each player to ask about their “basketball goals.”
The other coach called the child’s mother, who claimed in the filing that her daughter later “confided” in her that Duffey had been “sending her inappropriate messages” prior to the alleged office incident.
In her petition, the mother further alleged that “once during an out of town tournament, when the whole team including myself were staying at the same hotel, [Duffey] got her [daughter] to come to his room [and] he touched her inappropriately.”
“[The alleged victim] has also said that he has been giving her money to keep her quiet,” the mother claimed in the docs.
Gilson was reportedly shot and killed by Duffey, two weeks after she accused her former spouse of pedophilia. The pair were found dead in their Oklahoma home on July 23, according to Tulsa’s ABC affiliate.
Per the local outlet, local police officers were called to the scene after a reported shooting left two people dead.
Upon their on-scene arrival, law enforcement officials pronounced Gilson and Duffey dead and interviewed a family member who was present at the time. The unidentified family member alleged that the separated couple died by murder-suicide. An investigation into the fatal incident is ongoing.
According to a radio log exclusively obtained by Us on Thursday, July 30, an unidentified male caller stated that he heard Gilson say, “please don’t kill me” to someone in the room. The man advised the operator that there was a child in the home.
A GoFundMe has been established for Gilson and Duffey’s two children as “they navigate the difficult days, months and years ahead.”
“Sara was an incredible mom. Her children were the center of her world, and everything she did was for them,” organizer Brandon Johns wrote on the GoFundMe page. “She loved them fiercely, worked hard to provide for them and dreamed of giving them the best life possible.”
Johns continued, “Thank you for your love, compassion and generosity as we come together to support Sara’s children and honor the beautiful life of an amazing mother, daughter, and friend.”
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