Crystal Mangum

No one deserves to be sexually assaulted.

Nearly 20 years after Crystal Mangum falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of raping her at a party, the former exotic dancer is now admitting publicly for the first time that she fabricated the story.

I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn't, and that was wrong.

In 2006, Mangum told police she was sexually assaulted by three men, Collin Finnerty, Reade Seligmann, and David Evans, in a bathroom at a Duke lacrosse team party where she had been hired to perform.

One of Megyn's first big cases to cover at Fox was the 2006 Duke lacrosse rape hoax.

This was a case that was centered around a young Black stripper named Crystal Mangum, who was hired by the young men of the Duke lacrosse team to dance at a party that they were having at a house.

Crystal accused three members of the Duke University lacrosse team of raping her, and a district attorney named Mike Nifong, seemingly out to make a name for himself, took Crystal up on her case.

Mike Nifong ended up running away with this story that Crystal herself was becoming less and less sure of.

Quote, "I don't hate her.

I think she panicked and made up this story." And so there was, like, more forgiveness for this person who seemed to be, you know, mentally not well, who seemed to be having been taken advantage of by a predatory lawyer, from the mother of one of the accused, like way more grace than Megyn Kelly has 20 years later.

Megyn Kelly on her show this week is like, "Crystal Mangum was a deranged this and that and the other thing," uh, because, you know, she needs to keep talking about that case to justify her own coverage now of the Cornell one.

Gang rape at Cornell, an Ivy League university, and just the same as they did with the Duke players down in Durham 20 years ago.

Google that.

Google Crystal Mangum.

This is another one that's driving me crazy.

Google Emma Sulkowicz, who's back out talking once again.

And then in year five I realized it wasn't, so now I want charges brought.

Like, this is, this is an absurdity.

What's next? Wanna trot out Jussie Smollett to discuss whether the latest racism accusation has any merit? Like, why doesn't she book Crystal Mangum to talk to us about how pe- women need to be believed? This is ridiculous.

Why would you resurrect an obvious rape hoaxer to come out and speak on this at all? And it was not done in a way to exonerate the young men or to remind people that women do lie.

She now says she lied about the encounter.

Crystal Mangum.

first made the claims back in 2006, saying three members of the school's lacrosse team raped her after she had been hired to dance at a house party the team was throwing.

Police charged David Evans, Colin Finnerty, and Reed Seligman after Mangum's accusations.

But after much back and forth in the city's DA stepping down from the case, North Carolina's Attorney General later dismissed the charges, citing a lack of evidence.

But now, going on the record on a podcast nearly 20 years later, Crystal Mangum says she was lying the whole time

I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn't and that was wrong and I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me um and made up a story that wasn't true because I wanted validation from people and not from God.

I hope that they can forgive me and I want them to know that I love them and they didn't deserve that.

You don't stand with anybody.

What if we have another Crystal Mangum here?

Exactly.

Who's basically making up all allegations of non-consensual behavior.

Can you, can you call 911?

Jack Posobiec wants to remind us, "Hey, you wanna know why you don't believe all women, and #hetoo?" Here's Duke Lacrosse grape hoaxer Crystal Mangum.

Magnum.

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And if you have not studied the basics of the Duke lacrosse case, you cannot possibly understand, to quote that bro TikToker, "What's happening with men in this country?" Because this was the first of a handful of cases, especially with millennial men, that forged serious resentments, sometimes in healthy ways, sometimes in unhealthy ways, but with justifiable cause because of the way these stories were treated by the media, by the political class, not just Democrats, and then also by the broader left.

If you don't know the name Crystal Mangum, you should, because back in the late 2000s, Crystal Mangum's name was absolutely everywhere.

The Duke lacrosse case was splashed across the media for weeks, and then really was a significant story for about a year afterwards.

Some people may have missed that just within the last year or two, Crystal Mangum came out and admitted she made the whole story up, implicating these Duke lacrosse c- players in horri- in a horrific series of abuses.

Let's take a listen to Crystal Mangum admitting what she did recently.

I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn't, and that was wrong.

[sniffs] And I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me, um, and made up a story that wasn't true because I wanted validation from people and not from God.

It's pretty well said.