Crystal Mangum, who falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players and lost lawsuit, apologizes on podcast
The woman who in 2006 falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of raping her – making national headlines that stirred tensions about race, class and the privilege of college athletes – has admitted publicly for the first time that she made up the story.
Crystal Mangum, who is Black, said in an interview with the Let’s Talk With Kat podcast that she “made up a story that wasn’t true” about the white players who had attended a party where she was hired to perform as a stripper “because I wanted validation from people and not from God”.
“I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn’t and that was wrong,” Mangum, 46, said in the interview, which was released on Monday. The interview was recorded last month at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, where Mangum is incarcerated for fatally stabbing her boyfriend in 2011.
The former Duke players were declared innocent in 2007 after Mangum’s story fell apart under legal scrutiny.
The state attorney general’s office concluded there was no credible evidence an attack had ever occurred, and its investigation found no DNA, witnesses or other evidence to confirm Mangum’s story.
The Durham prosecutor who had championed Mangum’s case was disbarred for lying and misconduct. Prosecutors at the time declined to press charges against Mangum for the false accusations....
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