Posted on 10/23/2008 1:22:45 PM PDT by traumer
The woman who North Carolina prosecutors determined falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of raping her at a team party maintains in a new memoir that she was attacked.
Crystal Mangum, who appeared publicly Thursday for the first time since making the allegations more than two years ago, says in her forthcoming book she is not "looking forward to opening old wounds" but that she had to defend herself.
"Even as I try to move on with my life, I still find it necessary to take one more stand and fight," she writes in the book, "The Last Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story."
"I want to assert, without equivocation, that I was assaulted. Make of that what you will. You will decide what that means to you because the state of North Carolina saw fit not to look at all that happened the night I became infamous."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Liars like here should be in jail.
Who published her book? Better yet, who wrote it?
You might want to ping the list to this.
As I said before, that Duke PC education had them not include Mangum in the lawsuits. Afterall they learned at Duke that blacks are like pets and can not be held responsible. So now they must ad her to the law suits or be smeared again.
And that's the only place she was attacked.
Shouldn’t that be “The Last LAP Dance for Grace”?
I doubt they will, but I’d like to see the falsely accused Duke students sue that ugly l’il %$#@ for everything she has. Vile creature.
I hope the entire LAX team sues that bitch for all she’s worth....but of course that would be assuming any of her trashy books sell...which I truly doubt!
Duplicate post.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2113291/posts
but I can see that it would have been nearly impossible to spot.
ping
http://www.wcnc.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D940D76G0.html
Ex-Duke player’s family denounces memoir’s claims
10/23/2008
Associated Press
A statement from Phil Seligmann, father of exonerated former Duke lacrosse player Reade Seligmann, in response to Crystal Mangum maintaining that she was assaulted at a March 2006 team party:
“It is now beyond dispute that Reade Seligmann is innocent and was the victim of demonstrably false accusations by Crystal Mangum. The attorney general of North Carolina dismissed Ms. Mangum’s case, finding that Reade was innocent. The former lead detective for the Durham Police Department testified under oath that Crystal Mangum ‘was not telling the truth about anything.’ Electronic records, including cellular telephone calls and ATM photographs, proved Reade Seligmann was not even present when Ms. Mangum claimed the assault occurred. The forensic DNA findings revealed between five and nine different male profiles in and on Ms. Mangum — none of which matched any person on the Duke men’s lacrosse team. Ms. Mangum showed no injuries consistent with the beating and sexual assault that she claimed had occurred.
“Ms. Mangum’s ‘manuscript’ is simply a pathetic attempt to further her need to remain in the public eye at the expense of demonstrably innocent individuals. Her incoherent passages are not based on facts, but are quite simply false ramblings. She ignores all of the verifiable facts of the case. The individuals associated with her publication of this ‘manuscript’ are seeking to advance themselves by associating with a woman who has a dubious past.
“No crime of any kind took place involving Ms. Mangum or any member of the Duke men’s lacrosse team.
“We are presently evaluating all available legal options. If Ms. Mangum and those associated with her continue to slander Reade, we will have no choice and will not hesitate to utilize those options.”
And Pete Rose said for 20+ years that he did not bet on baseball. Then last year he admitted that he did. No Cooperstown for you, Pete.
Good for Mr. Seligmann!
I say utilize those options!
Well if Angela Davis and Bill Ayres can be college professors, I guess we can expect Professor “Magnums” book to be required reading in Dukes Humanities program.
Is there a centerfold in that book?
This woman should not be in the news. She should be in prison.
The players now need to sue Crystal Gail Mangum and her publisher. Deep pockets!!
I don’t get it. Who would publish this nonsense? A stupid, unfortunate looking chronic liar and 2 dollar hooker gets someone to put her “thoughts” in english and someone actually puts up the money to get the thing on the market?
A local huckster is the publisher and it will be printed to order. You order a book, they’ll print one up for you.
Lawyers should have an easy case of libel here.
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