{"id":2379807,"date":"2024-12-13T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-stripper-and-convicted-murderer-behind-duke-lacrosse-rape-hoax-admit-story-was-made-up-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T13:11:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:11:01","slug":"ex-stripper-and-convicted-murderer-behind-duke-lacrosse-rape-hoax-admit-story-was-made-up-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-stripper-and-convicted-murderer-behind-duke-lacrosse-rape-hoax-admit-story-was-made-up-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-stripper and convicted murderer behind Duke lacrosse rape hoax admit story was \u2018made up\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-stripper-and-convicted-murderer-behind-duke-lacrosse-rape-hoax-admit-story-was-made-up-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2379807&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Teh provided text includes a button labeled &#8220;Read more&#8230;&#8221; and \u2064corresponds too \u2064a section of an HTML document. 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the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rape\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">allegations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn&rsquo;t,&rdquo; Crystal Mangum&nbsp;said in an interview with independent media outlet <em>Let&rsquo;s Talk With Kat<\/em> from the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/north-carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> North Carolina <\/a>Correctional Institution for Women.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That was wrong, and I betrayed the trust of a lot of people who believed in me and made up a story that wasn&rsquo;t true because I wanted validation from people and not from God.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">18 years after her Duke Lacrosse lies, the woman who made the sexual assault accusations admits she made it all up. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aYTHdZIWe9\">pic.twitter.com\/aYTHdZIWe9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClayTravis\/status\/1867453793128079542?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>Mangum, 46,&nbsp;hopes people can &ldquo;forgive&rdquo; her, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The convicted murderer had never <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/immigration-expert-blasts-biden-admin-over-claims-on-border-crisis-an-offense-to-human-intelligence\/\" title=\"Immigration Expert Blasts Biden Admin Over Claims On Border Crisis: \u2018An Offense To Human Intelligence\u2019\">publicly admitted<\/a> to fabricating the rape allegation prior to Thursday&rsquo;s interview, and North Carolina&rsquo;s statute of limitations regarding perjury charges protects her from being prosecuted for lying under oath.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 20 years ago, Magnum accused three Duke lacrosse players of sexually assaulting her after she performed at a March 2006 team party. The athletes were soon arrested, and a national controversy ensued, with many supporters of Magnum&rsquo;s false claims accusing the Duke players of racism.<\/p>\n<p>The debacle led to the Blue Devils canceling their season. Eventually, all three players, David Evans, Collin Finnerty, and Reade Seligmann, were found innocent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Magnum is currently serving a prison sentence for the murder of her then-boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>The story of the Duke Lacrosse rape hoax has long galvanized national attention and is the center of ESPN&rsquo;s 2016 film <em>Fantastic Lies<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1900790\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1900790\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-stripper and murderer admits Duke lacrosse rape claims were false<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2644,"featured_media":2379808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AP24348577127828-1024x710.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[46751,33324,46748,46750,46749],"class_list":["post-2379807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-admitted-falsehood","tag-convicted-murderer","tag-duke-lacrosse","tag-ex-stripper","tag-rape-hoax"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AP24348577127828-1024x710.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2379807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379811,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379807\/revisions\/2379811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2379808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}