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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 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 ...
Pictured in this file photo from August 2010, Crystal Mangum, who was at the center of the Duke University lacrosse scandal, was charged with stabbing a man on April 3, 2011, at a Durham, N.C ...
Duke lacrosse players wore No. 45 on their warmup jerseys in support of teammate Reade Seligmann before a March 2, 2007, game at College Park, Maryland. (Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images) (G Fiume ...
Duke lacrosse is doing great again under head John Danowski, who has been coaching the team since 2006. "Seven members of the 2006 team were on the roster in 2010, when Duke and Danowski won a ...
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.
A woman who accused three former Duke University men’s lacrosse players of rape nearly two decades ago admitted she lied about the allegations and asked them for forgiveness.
The former lacrosse players reached an undisclosed settlement with Duke University in 2007 after suing it for the handling of the rape allegations. Mangum, who was convicted of second-degree murder in 2013 and is eligible to be released from prison as early as 2026, told the podcast interviewer that she hopes the three falsely accused men can ...