It’s clear now that “Jackie”—the girl at the center of the now-retracted Rolling Stone UVA fraternity rape story—lied about most, if not all, of the alleged attack. Newly released documents in an ongoing lawsuit against the magazine show how she initially pulled it off.
A woman who told a Rolling Stone reporter she’d been gang raped at a frat party at the University of Virginia, only to see the story fall apart after publication, will be compelled to testify this week as part of a lawsuit filed against the magazine.
After presenting to the world his ethically dubious and tediously written exclusive interview with Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, and after being implicated in the drug lord’s capture, Sean Penn is ready for his mea culpa, which he will deliver this Sunday on 60 Minutes. CBS has put up a teaser for the interview, in which…
Drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán may not have had any idea who Sean Penn was before agreeing to meet with him in the jungle, but he definitely knew all about Penn’s companion, Mexican actress Kate del Castillo, a beautiful tequila spokesperson he wanted to bring home to his mother.
Some journalists, in the course of their professional lives, will come upon people who, before, during, or after an interview, will ask if they can read the forthcoming piece, once it is written, in order to approve its contents. Most often, they are simply concerned with making sure that they don’t sound like idiots.…
A Mexican official tells the AP El Chapo was captured as a result of Sean Penn’s apparently not-so-clandestine meeting with the drug lord last October, a report that, if true, should ensure Penn sleeps somewhat uneasily for the rest of his life.
Earlier this evening, Rolling Stone published a bizarre, 11,000-word article detailing occasional Friends extra Sean Penn’s seven-hour encounter with the then-at-large drug lord El Chapo. And of course the two discuss (who else but) Donald Trump.
The scene: “A jungle clearing atop a mountain at an undisclosed location in Mexico.” The characters: Escaped Mexican billionaire drug kingpin El Chapo and, uh, Sean Penn? The result: A presumably edited, rambling 11,000-word account of a madman’s meeting with a criminal.
The University of Virginia’s chapter of Phi Kappa Psi filed a $25 million lawsuit against Rolling Stone Monday, alleging that the magazine’s controversial 2014 story “A Rape on Campus” was published with “a reckless disregard for the truth.”
This afternoon, Rolling Stone—along with fellow Wenner Media properties Us Weekly and Men’s Journal*—laid off several employees, including longtime editor and critic David Fricke, who has been the magazine’s most recognizable writer for several decades.
A University of Virginia associate dean is suing Rolling Stone and reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely over the way the magazine portrayed her in the infamous, retracted story “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA.”
With an odd sense of fanfare, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism last night produced a 13,000-word report on Rolling Stone's profoundly flawed account of a gang rape at the University of Virginia, "A Rape on Campus," that was published last November. Their conclusion? Rolling Stone fucked up a lot.
If the just-released, 12,000-word Columbia School of Journalism investigation into Rolling Stone’s deeply flawed rape story makes one point crystal clear, it is this: Rolling Stone screwed up in basically every way possible.
At a press conference this afternoon, Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo announced that his department has suspended—but not closed—an investigation into an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia, infamously detailed in a Rolling Stone article published last year. Longo said that the investigation…
The University of Virginia has imposed stricter safety regulations on campus fraternities in the wake of an alleged campus rape reported in a Rolling Stone story that was later found to have serious "discrepancies." Phi Kappa Psi, the fraternity implicated in the story, has agreed to the new rules—which include…
The University of Virginia reinstated its Phi Kappa Psi chapter on Monday after a police investigation failed to find any "substantive" evidence to support claims of a gang rape made in a controversial Rolling Stone article published last year
Monday afternoon, Camille Cosby finally broke her silence on the rape controversy surrounding her husband Bill, issuing a statement in his defense. In it, she compares media coverage of the rape accusations against Bill Cosby to Rolling Stone's University of Virginia fiasco. She concludes the statement by asking,…
The three friends of "Jackie" described in Rolling Stone's explosive UVa fraternity gang rape expose put their real names on the record today in an interview detailing key points the magazine got wrong.
Binjamin Wilkomirski's story was very sad and quite remarkable. In 1995, the Swiss clarinetist published a memoir titled Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood, detailing his youth during the Holocaust, including time spent in two concentration camps. The book was met with awe and acclaim. It was called…
Andy, Cindy and Randall—the pseudonyms of three students featured prominently in last month's Rolling Stone article about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia—tell the Washington Post they have doubts about the account given by the victim, Jackie.
