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Crystal Mangum confessed publicly for the first time that she falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of raping her in 2006. In an interview posted Wednesday from a North Carolina prison where ...
WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his criticism of Crystal Mangum, the woman who recently revealed that she lied when accusing three Duke University Lacrosse ...
Duke University Athletics declined to comment when contacted by The Independent. Mangum’s accusations resulted in the arrest of the three players and forced the team’s 2006 season to end.
The Duke lacrosse rape hoax was a widely reported 2006 criminal case hoax in Durham, North Carolina, United States, in which three members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team were falsely accused of rape. [1] [2] [3] The three students were David Evans, Collin Finnerty, and Reade Seligmann.
The Duke Lacrosse players accused of rape by Mangum in 2006 were Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans, who were 20, 19 and 23 years old at the time, respectively.
Crystal Gail Mangum (born July 18, 1978) [1] is an American former stripper from Durham, North Carolina who has been incarcerated for murder since 2013. In 2006, she came to attention in national news reports for having made false allegations of rape [2] [3] [4] against lacrosse players in the Duke lacrosse case.
The case attracted widespread media attention almost from the moment it became public. The apparent circumstances—three white males (David Evans, Reade Seligmann, and Collin Finnerty) from privileged backgrounds at an elite university apparently taking advantage of a student and single mother (Crystal Gail Mangum) from a crosstown black college (), trying to make ends meet by working as a ...
The Durham prosecutor who championed Mangum’s case was disbarred for lying and misconduct. Prosecutors at the time declined to press charges against Mangum for the false accusations. The former lacrosse players reached an undisclosed settlement with Duke University in 2007 after suing it for the handling of the rape allegations.