"[55] But on December 5, 2014, Rolling Stone published an online apology, stating that there appeared to be "discrepancies" in the accounts of Erdely's sources and that their trust in the accuser was misplaced. When Camille Cosby spoke about the rape allegations against her husband Bill, she said: "We all followed the story of the article in the Rolling Stone concerning allegations of rape at the University of Virginia. [48][49] After initially refusing to answer whether Jackie had access to or created the Haven Monahan email account, on May 31, 2016, Jackie's law firm filed court papers acknowledging they had recently accessed "Haven Monahan's" e-mail account for the purpose "of confirming that documents Eramo requested for the lawsuit were no longer in Jackie's possession. [37], Bruce Shapiro of Columbia University said that an engaged and empathetic reporter will be concerned about inflicting new trauma on the victim: "I do think that when the emotional valence of a story is this high, you really have to verify it." For the first time since 2002, applications to the university dropped. "[26] Erdely wrote that Randall was no longer friends with Jackie and, "citing his loyalty to his own frat, declined to be interviewed". Font Size: New evidence submitted in an ongoing lawsuit against Rolling Stone suggest that the legal team of Jackie Coakley, the University of Virginia (UVA) student responsible for a massive gang rape hoax, has been withholding evidence from an ongoing lawsuit. [116] The report also states that the article misled readers with quotes where attribution was unclear and used pseudonyms inappropriately as a way to address these shortcomings. Erdely said that Jackie regained consciousness alone in the fraternity after 3 a.m. and fled the building blood-spattered and bruised, phoning three friends for help. jacqueline and Connor McGovern from Stafford, VA have registered at for their wedding on October 15, 2015. [58], The New York Observer stated that Rolling Stone deputy managing editor Sean Woods (the editor directly responsible for the article)[59] tendered his resignation to the magazine's owner, Jann Wenner. Wat the fck does she see in you. No further messages are exchanged between the two. Dalmatian Puppy by Jacki McGovern. The Washington Times determined "Drew"'s "telephone" and "Blackberry" numbers were in fact "Internet phone numbers that enable the user to make calls or send SMS text messages to telephones from a computer or iPad while creating the appearance that they are coming from a real phone". Writing in Slate, Hannah Rosin described the new The Washington Post investigation as close "to calling the UVA gang rape story a fabrication". Given the anti-violence, anti-rape climate we are in, it is. Rolling Stone was hardly innocent, but this whole episode cost them whatever reputation remained. We must, apparently, not give out the names of accusers even after they have been shown to be liars. Monahan:No you cant be friends with her fuck off leave her the fuck alone. After other journalists investigated the article's claims and found significant discrepancies, Rolling Stone issued multiple apologies for the story. [155], Additionally, the Poynter Institute named the story as the "Error of the Year" in journalism. At the end of the day, UVA's incredible story fit Erdely's narrative better than Vanderbilt's credible one. Three fraternity members George Elias IV, Ross Fowler and Stephen Hadford alleged there was enough information in the article to identify them as some of the potential rapists in the story. [110] On April 5, 2015, Columbia's 12,000-word review of "A Rape on Campus" was published on both Rolling Stone's and the journalism school's websites. However, that statement seemed to contradict an earlier assertion the accuser had made to The Washington Post, in which she stated: "I know it was Phi [Kappa] Psi, because a year afterward, my friend pointed out the building to me. "[78], On December 6, The Washington Post's media critic Erik Wemple called for all Rolling Stone staff who were involved with the story to be fired. The Washington Post, to its credit, is reporting that University of Virginia rape hoaxer Jackie Coakley faked a terminal illness and pretended to be a man to try and get her romantic interest to date her. Jacqueline has 3 jobs listed on their profile. You act like youre entitled to her. So it took me a day or two to admit that I found many of Erdely's details unrecognizable. [116], Rolling Stone fully retracted "A Rape on Campus" and removed the article from its website. [121] Erik Wemple of The Washington Post called Dana's departure "four months too late". Select this result to view Jacqueline Rose Coakley's phone number, address, and more. "[79] An editorial in the Boston Herald declared: "a fifth-grader would've done some basic fact-checking before potentially ruining men's lives" before repeating the call for the firing of Rolling Stone staff involved in the story. [173][174], Response of fraternity and sorority groups, Columbia University School of Journalism's investigation. A woman named Jackie Coakley (now McGovern), who was a student at UVa at the time, had an issue with a boy who was not paying her enough attention, or didn't see her as a romantic interest, or something like that. In exchange for discussing her story with Post reporters, The Post agreed in late 2014 not to report her full name. Therefore, the criminal investigation was suspended on March 23. The original story was told by a young woman named Jackie Coakley identified only as Jackie in the article who said she was taken on a date by a handsome member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at the University of Virginia, and then led back to the fraternity house where several other members of the fraternity violently gang-raped her on top of a broken glass table. Someone gets between her legs. Teresa Sullivan, the president of UVa, promptly shut down all the fraternities and, bizarrely, the sororities as well (don't ask), in a "ready, fire, aim" response, without allowing even the Phi Psis the due process to point out all the inaccuracies that made the article suspect.Ultimately, Rolling Stone got sued, paid out a big settlement to get out from under their own stupidity, and took a big black eye as far as journalistic competence. The communications were supposed to be confidential, but now at least some of them have come into the possession of Virginia news outlet WTVR News. Jackie requested that her assailants not be contacted, and Rolling Stone agreed. In the episode, Heather fabricates a gang rape at a fraternity. Sullivan said: "I was plainly not prepared for what the story looked like. Its been over a year sinceRolling Stones big story on an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia was exposed as a hoax, but the public has long lacked specific details about how UVA student Jackie Coakley concocted her wildly false story. Rolling Stone falsely accused some University of Virginia students of heinous, criminal acts, and falsely depicted others as indifferent to the suffering of their classmate. In today's 24-hour news cycle, we all have a tendency to rush to judgment without having all of the facts in front of us. The second best result is Jackie L Coakley age 60s in Mount Pleasant, SC. Some students "actually had to leave the room while they were reading [the article] because they were so upset." [91] On December 8, the University of Virginia restated their original decision that the suspensions would be lifted on the resumption of classes in the new term, on January 9. Join Facebook to connect with Jackie Mcgovern and others you may know. "[131], According to the Columbia report, "Allen W. Groves, the University dean of students, and Nicole Eramo, an assistant dean of students, separately wrote to the authors of this report that the story's account of their actions was inaccurate." Those who were wronged by the article have received compensation for their suffering, but only Rolling Stone has been punished for its role in the fake story. The 2nd Circuit reversed Castels decision in September 2017, after Rolling Stone had reached settlements on two other lawsuits brought in the wake of the infamous article. [146][147][148] Harvey A. Silverglate in The Boston Globe referenced the Rolling Stone article in opining that the college sexual assault "scare" follows a long tradition of runaway, exaggerated social epidemics that "have ruined innocent lives and corrupted justice. June 2016. [133] Erdely furthermore reported that Office for Civil Rights Assistant Secretary Catherine E. Lhamon called Grove's statements at the meeting (as misreported by Erdely) "deliberate and irresponsible". Duffin: And its coming off as creepy. Monahan claims he has spent over $300 on flowers and chocolates for Coakley, even though she is supposedly not interested in her. [75] Anna Merlan, a writer for Jezebel, who had earlier called Reason columnist Robby Soave an "idiot" for expressing skepticism of the Rolling Stone story, declared: "I was dead fucking wrong, and for that I sincerely apologize. And no one, from a university president on down, or on up, gets the notion that due process for the accused is actually a core principle of our justice system, to be applied before punishment is meted out. According to Charlottesville Police Capt. 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The case is actually similar to that of Jackie Coakley, who told students and staff at the University of Virginia and a reporter for Rolling Stone that she had been gang-raped as part of a fraternity initiation. After leaving the party around 3 a.m., allegedly with bruises and blood stained clothes, Jackie called her three best friends, "Andy", "Randall" and "Cindy", for support. Fraternity officials also noted that, prior to the Rolling Stone story, there had never been a criminal investigation or allegation of sexual assault against an undergraduate member of the chapter. The fraternity said it would give a significant portion to victims advocacy groups. A year later, a judge dismissed their lawsuit, claiming the articles details about the attackers are too vague and remote from the plaintiffs circumstances to be of and concerning them.. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contactlicensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org. And Coakley, the woman who made up the story that led to tarnished reputations of her alma mater and an innocent fraternity, never saw any sort of punishment except for lies being debunked in the national media. But, just as in the Duke Lacrosse case, many of the people who enabled the false accusation and unfairly deemed the fraternity as guilty from the start were unharmed by the article. [11] In light of the findings, Erik Wemple of The Washington Post pronounced the story "a complete crock". "[115] Rolling Stone managing editor Will Dana was also cited on the Columbia report: "It's not like I think we need to overhaul our process, and I don't think we need to necessarily institute a lot of new ways of doing things. Jackie Coakley -- United States. Then in June 2017, the magazine settled with the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity for $1.65 million. Jackie Coakley can't hide her secrets any longer. [38], The two friends confirmed to the Post that they remembered meeting Jackie on the night of the incident, that she was distraught but not visibly injured or bloodied, and that details she provided then were different from those in the Rolling Stone article. But a police investigation was unable to establish that Monahan even existed, and instead he appears to have been an invention of Coakleys, who hoped to use him as a vehicle to win the affections of Duffin. [45] "[17], In Erdely's story, Jackie disclosed to friends Cindy, Andy, and Randall the identity of her date to the fraternity party and said that he was the ringleader of the rape. "[104], On January 12, 2015, the University of Virginia reinstated the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity after the police investigation concluded that no incident had occurred at the fraternity. Jackie was born in Milwaukee, Wis., but spent most of her life in Oregon, graduating from Roseburg High School in 1972 and Willamette University in 1977. After the date, they allegedly went to a party at his fraternity house, where he brought her to a dark bedroom upstairs and "a heavy person jumps on top of her. "[129] Phi Kappa Psi members received death threats and the president of the university postponed all events related to its fraternities and sororities until mid-January 2015. This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. [165][166] In September 2016, the magazine sought to have the lawsuit dismissed; however, a circuit court judge ruled that the suit could proceed. "[20][21], The next day, Phi Kappa Psi voluntarily suspended chapter activities at UVA for the duration of the investigation. View the profiles of people named Jackie Mcgovern. Where are the Feds? Someone else kneels on her hair. Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo explained, "We would've loved to have had Jackie come in and tell us what happened so we can obtain justice even if the facts were different. to see all of them, at. View Full Report. I believed it to be true at the time. Where are the Feds?There is certainly a good argument to make that it is often necessary to prosecute as a deterrent to the next person willing to try the same felonious act. Her friends, however, told ABC News that she seemed fine after the alleged assault,[99] contradicting Jackie's former roommate, Rachel Soltis, who claimed that Jackie "was depressed, withdrawn, and couldn't wake up in the mornings" following the alleged rape. Her claims turned out to be false, made in an attempt to get a male student's affections (it didn't work). [167] On June 13, 2017, the lawsuit was settled for $1.65 million. [35] Fraternity officials further disputed a claim in Erdely's piece that said the rape had occurred as part of a pledging ritual by observing that pledging on the UVA campus occurs in spring, not autumn as the story stated. [113][114], The fact-checker concluded that Ryan "Randall" under pseudonym had not been interviewed, but that the article had pretended he had been. Eramo was awarded $3 million by a jury who concluded that Rolling Stone defamed her with actual malice,[10] and Rolling Stone settled the lawsuit with the fraternity for $1.65 million. We dont know where, Like what you read here? The report indicated the college students suffered disgust, emotion, and confusion. We found 15 records for Jackie Mcgovern in MN, TX and 9 other states. A year ago we told you about a Sacred Heart University student who was charged with falsely reporting an incident and "tampering with or fabricating physical evidence". "[150], National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg has called for Phi Kappa Psi to sue Rolling Stone, while at least one legal expert has opined that there is a high likelihood of "civil lawsuits by the fraternity members or by the fraternity itself against the magazine and maybe even some university officials". Sorority Women Say", "Rolling Stone may have crushed anti-rape bill", "Rolling Stone threw a rape victim to the misogynist horde", "Greek leaders go on the offensive at UVA", "Campus sexual assault under fresh scrutiny after new survey shows lower incidence: News", "Sex crimes on campus: Professors as judges", "The new panic: campus sex assaults Opinion", "Charlottesville police make clear that Rolling Stone story is a complete crock", "Civil, Criminal Lawsuits: Possible Outcomes of, "Former UVA Fraternity Member Hires Lawyer Who Specializes in Sex Assault Cases", "The year in media errors and corrections 2014", "U-Va. Dean Sues Rolling Stone for 'False' Portrayal in Retracted Rape Story", "Attorneys for 'Jackie' in Rolling Stone Lawsuit Protest Under-Oath Deposition, Say It Could 'Re-Traumatize' Her", "Former U-va. Student 'Jackie' to Sit for Deposition in Rolling Stone Lawsuit", "Jury says Rolling Stone article defamed UVa administrator | Local", "Rolling Stone trial: Jury finds magazine liable for defamation for discredited rape story Nov. 4, 2016", "In Rolling Stone Defamation Case, Magazine and Reporter Ordered to Pay $3 Million", "U-Va. Jackie's friends Cindy, Andy, and Randall had become suspicious as to whether Jackie's date to the fraternity party where she was allegedly raped was a real person. [46], In Erdely's story, Jackie sank into depression after the alleged rape and was holed up in her dorm room for a while. Flanagan noted that "what Rolling Stone has pushed me into is that I have now become someone who is on the side of fraternities and defending fraternities. [29][30] After an interview Erdely gave to Slate, in which she was questioned about the way she investigated the piece, some commentators escalated their questioning of the veracity of the article. Jill Geisler in the Columbia Journalism Review reacted to Dana's statement by saying, "At a time when humility should guide a leader's comments, that quote carries the aroma of arrogance. [27] A local business owner expressed support of non-violent demonstrations and told The Cavalier Daily that "The only way thing[s] change is if you talk about what's happening. "[120], Rolling Stone announced that Will Dana would leave his job at the magazine, effective August 7, 2015. Eramo was awarded $3 million in damages. Looking for Jacqueline Mcgovern online? The same account was accessed on March 18, 2016, from inside ALTG, Stein, Mitchell, Muse & Cipollone LLP, Jackie's legal firm. In response to those revelations, Jackie's father declared that Phi Kappa Psi had been misidentified and the attack had occurred at a different fraternity, though he did not elaborate as to which one. [15] [67], On October 24, 2016, in a video deposition, Jackie said, "I stand by the account I gave Rolling Stone. Jackie Mcgovern. At the chapter house party, Jackie alleged in the article, her date led her to a bedroom where she was gang raped by several fraternity members as part of their initiation ritual. After the Charlottesville Police made their official report, Wemple said: "What is left of the Rolling Stone piece? AGE View Full Report AGE Phone Address View Full Report AGE View Full Report AGE Phone Address View Full Report They have also lived in Newport, RI and Stafford, VA. Jacqueline is related to Joan C Connelly and Sharon Elizabeth Coakley as well as 3 additional people. [14] For anonymity, Erdely only used Jackie's first name and gave pseudonyms to other students discussed in the story. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporters byline and their DCNF affiliation. Jacqueline Coakley Student at University of Massachusetts, Amherst Plymouth County, MA. Shortly after this tweet, the article began to fall apart. It is almost impossible to easily summarize the texts,which reveal a positively byzantine effort to trick Duffin. I have argued in these pages that the FBI needs to go hard against the Clinton Foundation for just that reason, lest the next powerful person or couple use a phony-baloney charitable entity to disguise an influence-peddling scam. 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