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Rolling Stone Settles Lawsuit Over Debunked Campus Rape Article



the UK Daily Mail on settling a defamation suit by Melania Trump:

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We accept that these allegations about Mrs Trump are not true and we retract and withdraw them. We apologise to Mrs Trump for any distress that our publication caused her. To settle Mrs Trump's two lawsuits against us, we have agreed to pay her damages and costs.


What we need is a similar statement by the media when such a suit is settled.

At least it is an apology.

Most of the media (mainstream and otherwise) owed the lax players apolotiges.
Newsweek owed the lax players a cover, not just an apology.

But we didn't see very much of that.



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In November, a federal jury sided with Eramo, awarding her $3 million in damages — $1 million from Rolling Stone and $2 million from Erdely.


It's justice to see Erdely slapped with $2M in liability
BUT I assume she'll never pay a dime???

One question is whether or not liberal journalists
learned anything from this whole disaster?

Or will they just keeping doing this over and over again,
going into a story with a pre-determined narrative and
turning a blind eye to anything that might hurt the narrative.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/rolling-stone-settles-defamation-case-with-uva-administrator/2017/04/11/92ed633c-1f19-11e7-bb59-a74ccaf1d02f_story.html?utm_term=.a3f7cb264fc0

Rolling Stone settles, but fight over rape story isn’t over
By Alanna Durkin Richer | AP April 12 at 2:07 PM

RICHMOND, Va. — Rolling Stone magazine settled a University of Virginia administrator’s lawsuit over its discredited story about a rape on campus, but its legal fights over the botched article aren’t over.

Attorneys for Rolling Stone and Nicole Eramo announced this week that they reached a confidential settlement over the 2014 story “A Rape on Campus,” putting an end to the lengthy case stemming from the now-debunked claims of a woman identified only as “Jackie.”

“We are delighted that this dispute is now behind us, as it allows Nicole to move on and focus on doing what she does best, which is supporting victims of sexual assault,” Libby Locke, an attorney for Eramo, said in a statement.

Rolling Stone called it an “amicable resolution.”

The magazine still faces a more than $25 million lawsuit filed by the University of Virginia chapter of the fraternity where Jackie claimed she had been raped, which is scheduled to go to trial in October. A separate lawsuit from three former fraternity members was dismissed last year.

The settlement in Eramo’s case came after Rolling Stone challenged a jury’s November verdict awarding the former associate dean of students $3 million. Rolling Stone asked the judge in December to overturn the jury’s decision, arguing that there is no evidence reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely acted with actual malice.

Media organizations, including The Associated Press, also urged the judge to overrule the jury’s finding that Rolling Stone “republished” the false claims when it attached an editor’s note highlighting problems with the story to an online version. Jurors said the magazine and its publisher didn’t act with actual malice when the story was originally published but did when it was “republished.”

The media groups said punishing Rolling Stone for trying to alert the public to problems with the story could discourage organizations from correcting errors.

Rolling Stone and Eramo settled before the judge could rule on the issue, so the jury’s verdict stands and won’t be examined by an appeals court.
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“That’s the troubling thing about the settlement, is that it doesn’t give an appellate court a chance to wipe out that precedent,” said George Freeman, executive director of the Media Law Resource Center and a former attorney for The New York Times.

Freeman said Eramo’s case shows Rolling Stone has “a propensity to settle,” but he said it’s hard to predict how the magazine’s attorneys will proceed in the other matter.

In documents recently filed in that case, Rolling Stone suggested that the fraternity is partially at fault for the article because, it claims, the fraternity was aware of problems with Jackie’s account and didn’t say anything before the story went to print.

“For had they done so, the article never would have been published,” Rolling Stone’s attorneys said.

Attorneys for the fraternity did not immediately respond to messages.
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But, in all this, Liar "Jackie" remains anonymous and untouched. No consequences at all.
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Apr 13 2017, 06:17 AM
But, in all this, Liar "Jackie" remains anonymous and untouched. No consequences at all.
Oh, Joan, that poor girl has suffered enough. She had a really painful headache this morning and no one would believe her when she complained about it. :SarC: Her life is ruined, and those thuggish fraternity guys stand to make a LOT of money.
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Apr 13 2017, 06:17 AM
But, in all this, Liar "Jackie" remains anonymous and untouched. No consequences at all.
Well not completely anonymous. Her name is Jackie Coakley.
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https://www.courthousenews.com/rolling-stone-students-spar-retracted-rape-article/

Rolling Stone, Students Spar on Retracted Rape Article
ADAM KLASFELD
April 27, 2017

MANHATTAN (CN) — Rolling Stone retracted its article “A Rape on Campus” soon after publication, but an attorney told the Second Circuit on Thursday his clients had already been hounded by dozens of reporters by that point.

“We think the immediacy occurred because of the internet,” attorney Alan Lee Frank told a three-judge panel. “We live in a different age.”

Published on Nov. 19, 2014, Sabrina Erdely’s article for Rolling Stone told the story of a woman identified only as Jackie, who said she had been gang-raped by members of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at the University of Virginia.

After Charlottesville police found Jackie’s claims unsubstantiated, however, scrutiny by other media organizations uncovered other problems with the narrative. Rolling Stone retracted the article in April 2015, but the magazine is still experiencing aftershocks related to the piece two years later.

Though Rolling Stone entered into a $3 million settlement earlier this month with Nicole Eramo, an associate dean at UVA who had been forced to resign in the wake of the scandal, a $25 million lawsuit from Phi Kappa Psi remains pending.

Depending on how the Second Circuit rules after Thursday’s hearing in Manhattan, the magazine could also face a separate court battle with three of the fraternity’s individual former members.

Rolling Stone never identified any of Jackie’s supposed attackers by name, but George Elias IV, Stephen Hadford and Ross Fowler claimed in a 2015 complaint that the article offered enough clues to point readers in their direction.

A federal judge in Manhattan dismissed that case last year, calling the details about Jackie’s attackers “too vague and remote from the plaintiffs’ circumstances.”

Pushing for a reversal Thursday, attorney Frank that Phi Kappa Psi had 203 members on the university’s campus at the time of the supposed rape in 2012. Only 31 of them had been juniors and seniors.

In the “fishbowl of that community,” Frank said, it did not take too long for readers to glean identifying details — marking Hadford as the frat brother seen regularly riding his bike on the university campus, and Elias as the student who lived at the top of the second floor.

Jackie’s account describes a third-year student named “Drew” as encouraging seven rapists, but U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest noted that several people fit this character’s description.

Sitting by designation from the Southern District of New York, Forrest told Frank that “Drew is a composite of a number of your clients.”

U.S. Circuit Judge Jose Cabranes grilled the lawyer on what his clients faced in the wake of the article.

“At minimum, these people were accused nationally of participating in a gang rape,” Frank replied.

Hadford blames the episode for his later rejection from medical school, and all three claim that a Google search of their names links them to a rape scandal.

Rolling Stone’s attorney Elizabeth Anne McNamara, from the firm Davis Wright Tremaine, disputed this.

“There have not been, nor does this record contain, any articles mentioning these individuals that includes them as the rapists of Jackie,” she said.

Indeed, as of Thursday afternoon, Google searches of Elias and Hadford’s name largely turned up coverage of their defamation lawsuits, and Fowler’s name largely pulls up unrelated links.

Cabranes questioned the relevance of McNamara’s point that all three of the students had graduated by the time of the article’s publication.

The panel, rounded out by U.S. Circuit Judge Raymond Lohier, has reserved decision on the case. Attorney Frank told reporters outside the courtroom that his clients have been building back their lives.

Hadford is about to graduate from medial school, and Elias now works in the investment industry, he said.

Rolling Stone has been hard at work as well after Columbia Journalism Review labeled it the winner of the “media-fail sweepstakes,” and the Poynter Institute crowned it for error of the year.

Rolling Stone owner Jann Wenner sold 49 percent of the company to BandLab Technologies, Bloomberg reported in September. The Singapore-based digital music publication is owned by a billionaire’s son.
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http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2017/05/a-look-back-at-the-rolling-stone-case

A look back at the Rolling Stone case
Eramo, Phi Kappa Psi and the future of journalism
by Alexis Gravely and Xara Davies | May 01 2017 | 05/01/17 2:26am

During this academic year, the lawsuits filed against Rolling Stone magazine have made headlines, from the start to the finish of former Assoc. Dean Nicole Eramo’s defamation lawsuit and the current preparations for Phi Kappa Psi’s upcoming trial.

The trial for Eramo’s $7.85 million lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine, Sabrina Rubin Erdely and Wenner Media, Inc. began Oct. 17, 2016. Eramo was suing over her depiction in Rolling Stone’s November 2014 article “A Rape On Campus,” which she said falsely represented her as indifferent towards the case of an alleged gang-rape victim at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house, who was identified in the article under the alias “Jackie.”

The trial, which lasted over three weeks, concluded with the jury finding Erdely, the magazine and its publisher liable for actual malice on several accounts.

As a result, the jury awarded Eramo $3 million in damages, with $2 million coming from Erdely and $1 million from Rolling Stone and Wenner Media, Inc.

Attorneys for Rolling Stone, Erdely and Wenner Media, Inc. then filed a motion Dec. 5, 2016 asking a federal judge to overrule the jury’s decision.

The lawsuit ultimately concluded when Eramo filed a motion April 11 for voluntarily dismissal of the case. The defendants did not object, and Eramo reached a settlement with Rolling Stone, Erdely and Wenner Media, Inc. — the terms of which are confidential.

The future of journalism

An investigation by the Charlottesville Police department found no evidence of the gang rape described in Erdely’s article, and the Columbia Journalism Review published a report on the article identifying its many falsities. This “failure that was avoidable” — as described by the Columbia Journalism Review — left its mark on the journalism industry.

Media Studies Prof. of Practice Wyatt Andrews said it’s difficult and a rarity for national news outlets to publish articles as factually incorrect as Erdely’s.

“In the largest news outlets in America, most people do not understand how hard it is to get absolutely fake things in a mainstream newspaper or broadcast news account because at the national level there are ethical standards, and there are serious checks and balances,” Andrews said.

Andrews said Rolling Stone previously had a reputation of having a “formidable” fact-checking department. The idea that the article was able to surpass this fact-checking to publishing was a wake-up call to the journalism community.

“I think it’s very obvious that what happened to Rolling Stone and U.Va. reverberated through the journalist community and reaffirmed to those agencies that have strong fact-checking units, ‘We really need to pay attention when they raise flags,’” Andrews said. “Responsible news editors around the country looked at the collapse of Rolling Stone’s once-impressive fact-checking operation and asked themselves, ‘Could that happen to us?’”

Andrews also said the article may have more of an impact on how journalists approach their sources. He referenced advice given to journalists by author Jon Krakauer — who wrote a book about sexual assault at the University of Montana — encouraging journalists to listen to both the accusers and the accused with an initial attitude of belief and then checking the facts to tell the best story.

“The answers from a journalistic perspective was ‘believe everyone, talk to everyone and write the facts as you see them,’” Andrews said. “If Erdely had done that, she might have still had an article, but it might not have done the damage that it did.”

Rolling Stone’s next lawsuit — Phi Kappa Psi v. Rolling Stone

The University’s chapter of Phi Kappa Psi is currently pursuing an ongoing $25 million lawsuit against Rolling Stone for defamation.

Law Prof. George E. White told The Cavalier Daily the fraternity had yet to be designated as either a private citizen or a public figure and that this will be a “critical” part of the case.

“If they are a public figure, then they will have the same burden of proof Eramo had — they will need to show clear and convincing evidence of actual malice,” White said.

White added he believes it is “likely” that the fraternity will be deemed to be a public figure. In order to be designated a public figure, one has to be visible and in the public eye, along with being in a position where they are held accountable to public comment, White said.

“They are part of a national organization, they are an integral part of University social life, they engage in activities,” White said. “I am virtually certain they will be treated as a public figure.”

Aside from providing evidence that the article was written with “actual malice,” White said the fraternity will also need to prove the statements made were not only false but also damaging to their reputation.

White said that one issue he believes the fraternity will face is the question of whether or not the conduct of some members of the fraternity, in spite of Jackie having “made this whole thing up,” is enough to damage the reputation of the institution as a whole.

“It is of course damaging to their reputation because among the statements made was that this was an initiation rite — that a gang rape was a part of initiation,” White said. “If it’s initiation, it suggests that the fraternity as an institution condoned this behavior.”

White also said the only similarity between the lawsuits filed by Eramo and the University’s chapter of Phi Kappa Psi is that defamation action in both cases was triggered by statements that came from the same article.

The 10-day jury trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 25.
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Media Studies Prof. of Practice Wyatt Andrews said it’s difficult and a rarity for national news outlets to publish articles as factually incorrect as Erdely’s.

“In the largest news outlets in America, most people do not understand how hard it is to get absolutely fake things in a mainstream newspaper or broadcast news account because at the national level there are ethical standards, and there are serious checks and balances,” Andrews said.



I guess he never heard of the Duke case...



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Fake News Forgiveness: CBS Yawns at Rolling Stone’s False Rape Story: ‘Happens So Rarely’
By Scott Whitlock | May 16, 2017 | 12:52 PM EDT

The journalists at CBS This Morning on Tuesday offered breathtakingly little interest into one of the biggest fake news outrages in recent years. Talking to Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner about the 50th anniversary of the magazine’s founding, the show’s co-hosts managed just two questions on Rolling Stone’s false accusation of rape at the University of Virginia. Gayle King dismissed the bogus story because it “happens so rarely” at the publication.

As long as Rolling Stone falsely smears someone as a rapist on occasion, but not regularly, it’s not a big deal? It wasn’t until the end of the seven minute segment that co-host Charlie Rose gingerly brought it up: “So, 50 years concludes highs and lows. Where do you put the University of Virginia reporting?”

Wenner gave a defensive answer, basically asserting that, other than the whole “rape” part of it, the story was pretty accurate:

I mean, we made a really big mistake there. The underlying story and reporting was all accurate. It was an important issue, rape on campus. Nothing about what we said about Title Nine enforcement has ever been discredited. We were right about that. Unfortunately, the example we used turned out to be not true, and on that mistake, we got hung.

He added that “if you do 50 years of this kind of reporting and daring,” mistakes will be made. Errors like calling someone a rapist who wasn’t one? King sympathized, “It happens so rarely to you.”

In comparison to a real critique, the Columbia Journalism Review in 2015 called the Rolling Stone story “a mess — thinly sourced, full of erroneous assumptions, and plagued by gaping holes in the reporting.” CJR writer Bill Grueskin added, “Just as damning, this story had so much internal momentum that no one – even those employed as fact-checkers – felt empowered to challenge it.”

That is called criticism and should have been repeated to Wenner. But his journalist pals on CBS didn’t want to make the publisher uncomfortable. The fact that Rolling Stone was forced to pay $3 million to the dean of UVA also never came up. It's apparently but a blip in the magazine’s 50 glorious years.

A transcript of the segment is below:

CBS This Morning
5/16/17

8:33am

GAYLE KING: Nearly 50 years ago, Jann Wenner co-founded this small little music publication in San Francisco. The rock and roll newspaper was called Rolling Stone. He printed the first edition with $7500 that he raised from friends. Wenner was just 21 years old at the time. Wow. He wrote this in the editor's note. “We hope that we have something here for the artists and the industry and every person who believes in the magic that can set you free.”

CHARLIE ROSE: That hope translated into success. Rolling Stone has now published more than 1200 issues. It covers and shapes music, politics, and pop culture. Two of his best-known writers, Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson, spoke with CBS in 1987 about what makes Rolling Stone so special.

TOM WOLFE: Rolling Stone has been extremely flexible and willing to take chances and not frightened.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON: With Rolling Stone, I was given the room and the range to really stomp on the terror, as Lord Buckley said. And very few places will give you that.

ROSE: The magazine is celebrating its golden anniversary with a new book: 50 Years of Rolling Stone, featuring an introduction by co-founder Jann Wenner and he joins us now. Good morning.

JANN WENNER: Good morning.

ROSE: Way back 50 years ago in San Francisco, what the hell did you think you were doing?

WENNER: Well, I didn't know. I mean, I was a kind of wild rock and roll kid who loved music and wanted to do something about that, but I had no idea what it would ultimately become. It would become such a big mainstream publication and talking to presidents and going to the Oval Office and Air Force One and doing all that.

ROSE: And rock and roll too.

WENNER: It all stems from rock and roll. When we started to cover music in the beginning, we had the Beatles, the Stones and Dylan. They were beginning to form a world view and a conscious and attitude. You know? It reflected the concerns of the just coming of age baby boom, which is kind of a new idea about politics and society. It was alienated from then-society. They had a kind of a social mission at its core even then. People didn't see that right away. We did see that. We celebrated that.

KING: You must have been a different kind of kid though, Jann. Because you were 21 years old. I marvel at that when you look at the 21-year-olds today. I can remember what I was like at 21. Just the fact you could think that at 21. You said you wanted to give rock and roll a voice. What was the story for that voice that you thought was missing?

WENNER: Well, at that time, the publications, the few publications that covered music were really teenage fan magazines. It was like little teenage girls. There was no coverage of rock and roll in the New York Times or the magazines or on television or anywhere. Really, it was just kind of you could get rock and roll on top 40 radio, in the jukeboxes. And we wanted to say something about it, and you could get it in Rolling Stone. We sort of became the voice of it. You know? And let the groups and artists talk through us and explain themselves to their audience through us.

O’DONNELL: It was a newspaper at first on a rotary press that you guys — the first time you watched it and clicked your champagne glasses watching it come out. Now it’s a magazine. In the first year, you had interviews with Mick Jagger and Pete Townsend. How did you get those interviews?

WENNER: I think they saw what we were doing, as small as it was in San Francisco. Which is way off the beaten track then. They saw what it was, and they liked it. They realized we were taking them on their own terms. Reflecting the kind of seriousness with which they took their music and not just what colors they liked and what they're looking for in a girlfriend.

KING: Something of substance.

WENNER: And they respond to us. They wanted to talk about it. You know? They knew they were going to get taken seriously.

ROSE: What else you did is you found the great Hunter Thompson and the great Annie Leibovitz. You said about hunter, I could never find another Hunter, “I could never find another Hunter.”

WENNER: Well, it's a one of a kind. There are certain — Between his skill as a writer and a reporter and his really — he was also an amazing personality. You had him on many times.

ROSE: Loved him.

WENNER: Being with Hunter, you knew you were going to have the most exciting time of your life. Something you're always going to live on the edge of danger. Just being with him. You're in a car with him, it was danger.

KING: And Annie Leibovitz. Back to Charlie saying about Annie Leibovitz. You wanted that magazine, that paper to have a look.

WENNER: I believe in photography and I believe an essential part of rock and roll was the look of it and the style of it and the image of it. So, I wanted photography. I wanted good photography. Now, Annie just wandered into our office on our own. She was a student at the San Francisco Art Institute and he gave me some pictures she took and we started giving her assignments. She kept coming back better and better and better. Soon enough, I mean, I had no idea when I saw her the first time she would end up being one of the world's greatest living photographers.

O’DONNELL: There's a picture of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. You say that's your favorite picture.

WENNER: Well, it’s not my favorite picture. But it’s certainly the most astounding cover ever. Just the image itself is so powerful. It was published at a time when he was killed. It became an inextricable part of what happened and that image speaks to really profound—

KING: When he was killed, yeah.

ROSE: So, 50 years concludes highs and lows. Where do you put the University of Virginia reporting?

WENNER: As a low. I mean, we made a really big mistake there. The underlying story and reporting was all accurate. It was an important issue, rape on campus. Nothing about what we said about Title IX enforcement has ever been discredited. We were right about that. Unfortunately, the example we used turned out to be not true, and on that mistake, we got hung. We've been doing this —

ROSE: Did it do damage in terms of you and the readers?

WENNER: No, it just was an upsetting incident. If you do 50 years of this kind of reporting and daring —

KING: It happens so rarely to you.

WENNER: Just the once in a lifetime thing. It's happened to other people. It happened to the Times.

[CBS crew moves on to other topics.]
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Defamed UVA Administer Nicole Eramo Talks Trial, Moving Forward
Posted: Jun 08, 2017 3:24 PM CST
Updated: Jun 08, 2017 4:23 PM CST


CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) -

Nicole Eramo says she always wanted to do something big with her life, and was on track to do that.

But then life threw her a curve in November 2014, one she didn't think she could recover from.

Things are now changing for the University of Virginia administrator as she finds other ways to write a new chapter in her personal journey.

NBC29’s Henry Graff spoke at length with Eramo about the now-redacted article in Rolling Stone Magazine, the court battle over it, and how she is continuing her fight against sexual violence.

"To say that I was wronged in some way it felt, it felt really good in the end. But it was a really difficult process to get there," said Eramo, reflecting on the jury’s verdict.

Eramo was an associate dean of students at the University of Virginia when she filed a defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone, publisher Wenner Media, and author Sabrina Rubin Erdely in Charlottesville Circuit Court on May 12, 2015. The lawsuit, which sought over $7 million in damages, moved to federal court on May 29, 2015.

Rolling Stone published Erdely’s article “A Rape on Campus,” in its November 2014 issue. The article focused on a UVA student known as “Jackie,” who described being gang raped at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house in 2012. Eramo’s lawsuit argued that Erdely portrayed her as indifferent to Jackie’s claims.

Erdely’s article was eventually debunked through investigations, and redacted by Rolling Stone.

However, jury selection wouldn’t get underway until October 17, 2016. Jury deliberations began in the morning of November 2, and stretched into three days.

Eramo said she felt intimated by that lengthy federal trial.

"I had a pump-up song every day that I would ride to the courthouse in to get ready. It was from ‘Hamilton’," she said.

It was that musical routine, along with the support of family and friends that got Eramo through each grueling day inside the federal courtroom. She took the witness stand, but so did the woman behind the article.

“It was difficult to sit, you know, 10 feet from Ms. Erdely while she testified every day. I didn't anticipate how difficult that would be," recalled Eramo. “The extent to which she [Erdely] spoke to my students about feeling, like I had acted inappropriately, that was very difficult to hear."

Erdely would ultimately testify for nearly five days. The court would also hear from Rolling Stone’s editor, fact-checker, and publisher.

"You go into that process hoping to get justice, hoping to get people to take responsibility for their actions. I never felt like that happened," said Eramo looking back on how the defendants handled Erdely’s article.

Jurors found the magazine, its publisher, and Erdely were responsible for libel with actual malice. They also decided to award Eramo $3 million in damages.

"It was vindicating," she said of the jury’s decision.

After the trial, Eramo returned to UVA in a student affairs role: “I came back to work and my office was full of balloons and a big card from students that I know, welcoming me back."

Eramo says she cares about sexual assault survivors, and Rolling Stone got it plain wrong.

"We felt like we were on the right side. I knew that I was telling the truth," she said.

Truth is what Eramo is holding onto, putting a very dark chapter in her life to rest, and finally writing one she's in charge of: "It felt like I was finally at the end of a really long journey."

Eramo is taking money and starting a fund at the University of Virginia to take the fight against sexual violence to a new level. She has donated $50,000 toward a fund to help survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, but hopes to raise 10 times that amount.

"I promised at that time that any funds that were donated would be donated back to the university if I were successful in the lawsuit," Eramo said.

The Sylvia Eramo Fund for Prevention of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence is named after her grandmother, who inspired her to get the endowment up and running: "In a way I feel like it moves her legacy forward and I know that she would be really proud of what I'm doing and that makes me really happy."

Eramo wants the funds to go to the Green Dot Violence Prevention program, which she hopes to expand beyond the university and into the community. She is also working to raise funds for the Sexual Assault Resource Agency.

"I'm trying to stay involved where I can," said Eramo.

Even though she no longer works face-to-face with student sexual assault survivors, she is reaching them through these new endeavors. She says, "I hope they see me as someone who always had the interest of survivors and students at the center of my work. That was absolutely where I was and who I was and I still am today."

Eramo says she doesn't blame Jackie. She saw her during Jackie’s video-taped deposition, which was played in court. That would be the first time they saw each other since Erdely’s article came out, and the last.
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"You go into that process hoping to get justice, hoping to get people to take responsibility for their actions. I never felt like that happened," said Eramo


something we learned in the lax case, as well...

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Rolling Stone Settles With University Of Virginia Fraternity Over Rape Hoax Article

Posted By Chuck Ross On 7:58 PM 06/12/2017 In | No Comments

Rolling Stone has settled a lawsuit with the University of Virginia fraternity whose members were falsely accused of raping a female student in a Nov. 2014 article, The Daily Caller has learned.

A source involved at the national level with the fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, tells TheDC that Rolling Stone will pay $1.65 million to settle the defamation suit.

The magazine’s decision follows a settlement in April with Nicole Eramo, a University of Virginia associate dean who was also smeared in the article, which was written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely.

In the piece, “A Rape on Campus,” Erdely relayed the story of Jackie Coakley, a Virginia woman who claimed she was brutally raped by a group of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity members during a party in Sept. 2012.

Erdely portrayed Eramo as dismissive of Coakley’s case. But it was later revealed that Coakley not only fabricated the attack by the fraternity members but that Eramo took her allegations seriously at the time she made them.

A jury in Virginia awarded Eramo $3 million in damages — $2 million from Eramo and $1 million from Rolling Stone.

In an email provided to TheDC, David Moyer, the national secretary for Phi Kappa Psi, informed other members of the national board about the settlement.

Moyer, who is also provided legal counsel to the fraternity, wrote that the magazine will pay the $1.65 million settlement by Aug. 31. The Virginia chapter had sued Rolling Stone for $25 million.

Neither Rolling Stone nor Phi Kappa Psi responded to email requests for comment for this article. Moyer also did not respond to a request for comment by press time.

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Rolling Stone Settles With University Of Virginia Fraternity Over Rape Hoax Article

Posted By Chuck Ross On 7:58 PM 06/12/2017 In | No Comments

Rolling Stone has settled a lawsuit with the University of Virginia fraternity whose members were falsely accused of raping a female student in a Nov. 2014 article, The Daily Caller has learned.

A source involved at the national level with the fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, tells TheDC that Rolling Stone will pay $1.65 million to settle the defamation suit.

The magazine’s decision follows a settlement in April with Nicole Eramo, a University of Virginia associate dean who was also smeared in the article, which was written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely.

In the piece, “A Rape on Campus,” Erdely relayed the story of Jackie Coakley, a Virginia woman who claimed she was brutally raped by a group of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity members during a party in Sept. 2012.

Erdely portrayed Eramo as dismissive of Coakley’s case. But it was later revealed that Coakley not only fabricated the attack by the fraternity members but that Eramo took her allegations seriously at the time she made them.

A jury in Virginia awarded Eramo $3 million in damages — $2 million from Eramo and $1 million from Rolling Stone.

In an email provided to TheDC, David Moyer, the national secretary for Phi Kappa Psi, informed other members of the national board about the settlement.

Moyer, who is also provided legal counsel to the fraternity, wrote that the magazine will pay the $1.65 million settlement by Aug. 31. The Virginia chapter had sued Rolling Stone for $25 million.

Neither Rolling Stone nor Phi Kappa Psi responded to email requests for comment for this article. Moyer also did not respond to a request for comment by press time.

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Fraternity chapter at U-Va. to settle suit against Rolling Stone for $1.65 million

By T. Rees Shapiro June 13 at 10:27 AM

A Phi Kappa Psi fraternity chapter announced Tuesday it plans to settle a lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine in a defamation case involving allegations — later debunked -- that University of Virginia students participated in a gang rape.

A spokesman for the fraternity, Brian Ellis, said that the case filed in state court in Charlottesville is expected to be settled for $1.65 million.

“It has been nearly three years since we and the entire University of Virginia community were shocked by the now infamous article, and we are pleased to be able to close the book on that trying ordeal and its aftermath,” the fraternity chapter wrote in a statement. “The chapter looks forward to donating a significant portion of its settlement proceeds to organizations that provide sexual assault awareness education, prevention training and victim counseling services on college campuses.”

Rolling Stone declined to comment.

The lawsuit, filed in 2015, was the third defamation case brought against the magazine stemming from its November 2014 publication of “A Rape on Campus.”

The 9,000-word account detailed blistering allegations of sexual assault at U-Va., including what the magazine described as a brutal gang rape hazing ritual.

The article described the experiences of a U-Va. student named “Jackie,” who told of being assaulted by seven men while two others watched at a Phi Kappa Psi fraternity party during her freshman year in 2012. Amid a national resurgence of interest in campus sexual assault cases, the Rolling Stone story drew widespread attention almost instantly for its raw portrayal of fraternity culture run amok. An online viral sensation, the article, by journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely, attracted huge readership to the magazine’s web site.

But Rolling Stone later retracted the article after an investigation by The Washington Post showed that the magazine’s reporting and fact-checking was fatally flawed.

Two reports by the Charlottesville police department and Columbia University journalism school confirmed The Post’s findings that the assault described in Rolling Stone never occurred.

After the article’s retraction, U-Va. administrator Nicole Eramo filed a lawsuit claiming that she was erroneously portrayed as callous and indifferent to Jackie’s rape allegations. Eramo sought $7.5 million.


In November a jury ruled in Eramo’s favor and awarded her $3 million, but during appeal the case was settled confidentially. Three alumni members of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity had filed a separate suit in federal court against the magazine, but that case was dismissed by a judge in June 2016.

In accepting the $1.65 million settlement now, the U-Va. Phi Kappa Psi chapter is forgoing a jury trial and dropping its original request for $25 million.
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