Now, WTVR has released almost 50 pages of text messages showing correspondence between Coakley and Duffin, as well as a month-long correspondence between Duffin and Monahan, who appears to have simply been Coakley all along. "[125][126], Phi Kappa Psi's national headquarters released the following statement: "That Rolling Stone sought to turn fiction into fact is shamefulThe discredited article has done significant damage to the ability of the chapter's members to succeed in their educational pursuits and besmirched the character of undergraduate students at the University of Virginia who did not deserve the spotlight of the media." The police were also unable to corroborate Jackie's allegations that two other sexual assaults had taken place at the fraternity house or that she had been assaulted and struck to the face with a bottle in a separate incident. We dont know where, Like what you read here? Eramo was awarded $3 million in damages. Join now to unlock comments, browse ad-free, and access exclusive content from your favorite FDRLST writers. [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." [172], In May 2022, an off-Broadway play adapted from the UVA case and resulting legal battles titled Retraction premiered in New York City at Theatre Four at Theatre Row. The Charlottesville Police Department investigation confirms that far from being callous, our staff members are diligent and devoted in supporting and caring for students. Jan. 9, 1954 - June 5, 2019. 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. We must, apparently, not give out the names of accusers. During the trial, it was revealed that Rolling Stone removed information that cast Eramo in a favorable light. 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". However overall applications were down 0.7 percent to 31,107 in the aftermath of the publication. Join Facebook to connect with Jackie Mcgovern and others you may know. Sullivan extended a voluntary ban on social activities for months after the article was punished, and required organizations to sign new agreements in order to resume such activities. ", Also within the first day following publication, Phi Kappa Psi's fraternity house at UVA was vandalized with spray-painted graffiti that read "suspend us", "UVA Center for Rape Studies", and "Stop raping people". [17] Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. [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. Jacqueline Coakley in Virginia We found 3 records for Jacqueline Coakley in Woodbridge, Colchester and Glade Spring. "[26] Rolling Stone ran the story anyway, to their journalistic and financial detriment. 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. Eventually, Duffin becomes suspicious and insists he wants to speak with Monahan verbally instead of exchanging texts. In the post, he asked: "Is Vanderbilt just not as sexy a story as UVA? But several days later, once a Washington Post story had poked massive holes in Coakleys story, Duffin turns more hostile. [94], On December 10, 2014, The Washington Post published an updated account of its inquiry into the Rolling Stone article. Browse all their registries in one list. Jackie Coakley, beloved daughter, granddaughter, sister, aunt and friend, passed away June 5, 2019 in Portland. [15] The university would not take further action unless Jackie disclosed the names of the individuals or the fraternity involved. Well, she is married and is now "Jackie McGovern", living her life, la-la-la, scot-free. [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. "[90], Within days following the unraveling of the Rolling Stone story, the North American Interfraternity Conference, the National Panhellenic Council, and the Fraternity and Sorority Political Action Committee demanded that the University of Virginia "immediately reinstate operations for all fraternity and sorority organizations on campus" and issue an apology to Greek students. The poster featured an image of Lena Dunham, whose own allegations of rape had recently come under scrutiny, and included a sidebar reference to "A Rape on Campus" that read "Our UVA Rape Apology: Ooops, we did it AGAIN!!! 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. The three friends disclosed to ABC News their actual names Alex Stock's pseudonym was "Andy", Kathryn Hendley's was "Cindy", Ryan (Duffin) was "Randall"[99] and went on record that on the night of the alleged event Jackie told the two men that she was forced to fellate five men while a sixth stood by. Duffin: And its coming off as creepy. Therefore, the criminal investigation was suspended on March 23. Others named Jackie Coakley. [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. Where are the Feds? [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". Ashe Short is a senior editor at The Daily Wire, where she writes about campus issues. The story portrayed University staff members as manipulative and callous toward victims of sexual assault. The situation only becomes more surreal from there: Duffin remains surprisingly composed throughout the exchanges, refusing toblow up at Monahan despite repeated provocations to do so. 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. Given the anti-violence, anti-rape climate we are in, it is. He suggests she could die soon, and that in her will she left all her stuff to kids in Honduras., Monahan repeatedly refers to Coakley having an interest in Duffin, warning that he will break her heart.. [25] A few hours after the incident, several news groups received an anonymous letter claiming responsibility for the vandalism and demanding that the university implement harsher consequences for sexual assault (mandatory expulsion), conduct a review of all fraternities on campus, the resignation of Nicole Eramo, and the implementation of harm reduction policies at fraternity parties. The first settlement the magazine had to pay was to former UVA dean Nicole Eramo, who was portrayed as the chief villain in the story and as someone who was callous and indifferent to rape accusations from students. Nor do I think her characterization of my interview was fair. [173][174], Response of fraternity and sorority groups, Columbia University School of Journalism's investigation. Jacqueline has 3 jobs listed on their profile. The trio also sent text messages to a phone number Jackie said was the mobile phone of her date and were surprised that the owner of the phone number responded primarily with flattering messages about Randall, whom Jackie was romantically interested in. [151][152] ABC News has reported that the accuser, Jackie, herself might be sued. She decided to get the attention she wanted, by making up a completely baseless story about having been gang-raped at a fraternity house, Phi Kappa . Wenner, who was reportedly "furious" at Erdely's story, declined to accept the resignation. You all know where she is. Her claims turned out to be false, made in an attempt to get a male student's affections (it didn't work). Very little. When asked if Dana's departure was influenced by the debacle surrounding Erdely's article, the magazine's publisher responded that "many factors go into a decision like this". In September 2013, Eramo connected Jackie with Emily Renda, a UVA staff member, recent graduate and leader in the college's sexual assault support group One Less. "[115] Jackie Coakley can't hide her secrets any longer. The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism audited the editorial processes that culminated in the article being published. "[120], Rolling Stone announced that Will Dana would leave his job at the magazine, effective August 7, 2015. On March 23, 2015, police noted that Jackie refused to cooperate with law enforcement during the investigation. "[144], The North American Interfraternity Conference and the National Panhellenic Council, meanwhile, announced that they had retained the services of Squire Patton Boggs to lobby the U.S. Congress to take action to ensure that Greek-letter organizations are protected from future accusations of the kind leveled in Erdely's article. [27], The Interfraternity Council (IFC) at UVA released a statement on its website in response to the article that said: "an IFC officer was interviewed by Rolling Stone regarding the culture of sexual violence at the University. Get introduced. Monahan, meanwhile, displays stalker-likebehavior and makes heavy use of almost every brand of profanity. The Cardinal defense forced the Mustangs into 22 turnover and held them to just 10 points in the first half. See who you know in common. Monahan claims he has spent over $300 on flowers and chocolates for Coakley, even though she is supposedly not interested in her. The magazine itself was punished with a blow to its credibility and the settlements. Some students "actually had to leave the room while they were reading [the article] because they were so upset." She was then connected to the good folks at Rolling Stone magazine, which ignored all journalistic standards by publishing the account calling her just "Jackie" to protect her identity, mind you without doing a shred of research to validate any of the facts of the story. And for the next three hours she's brutally raped and beaten, with Drew and another upperclassman supposedly shouting out instructions to the pledges, referring to Jackie as 'it'." "[68][69] WCAV of Charlottesville, Virginia, published the audio of Jackie's 2014 statements to Erdely. In a strange bit of irony, the last thing she ever tweeted was a reply to ProPublica reporter Pamela Colloff about correcting a tweet to label Erdely as a journalist, instead of simply a woman.. 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. The text messages have been released as part of an ongoing $7.5 million defamation lawsuit brought by UVA Dean Nicole EramoagainstRolling Stone. The same account was accessed on March 18, 2016, from inside ALTG, Stein, Mitchell, Muse & Cipollone LLP, Jackie's legal firm. 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. [16][19], Within hours of the article's publication, UVA president Teresa Sullivan had called the governor's chief of staff and the Charlottesville police chief to start preparing a response. [121] Erik Wemple of The Washington Post called Dana's departure "four months too late". [155], Additionally, the Poynter Institute named the story as the "Error of the Year" in journalism. The media commentators noted that the claims of a rape culture's existence on campuses was not supported by U.S. government statistics or other measures. 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. Artwork by Jacki McGovern. So if I can just ask a question, then Why did you tell us before the date ever happened that his name was Haven?, Duffin asks. You act like youre entitled to her. [citation needed]. Oh, the earth spun a little slower, or faster metaphors fail me when it comes to stuff like this.At any rate, you surely remember. appears willing to take her to task, either in a civil suit (Rolling Stone might want to think about that) or in a criminal case, given that she perpetrated a massive fraud with some pretty serious consequences and material damages. [1][5] The article claimed that a UVA student Jackie Coakley had been taken to a party hosted by UVA's Phi Kappa Psi fraternity by a fellow student. "[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. [36], The Washington Post reporters later interviewed the accuser at the center of Erdely's story and two of the friends that Rolling Stone said she had met on the night of the incident. Gary Pleasants, Phi Kappa Psi has been cleared; "We found no basis to believe that an incident occurred at that fraternity, so there's no reason to keep them suspended. jacqueline and Connor McGovern from Stafford, VA have registered at for their wedding on October 15, 2015. . It is almost impossible to easily summarize the texts,which reveal a positively byzantine effort to trick Duffin. [18] Two years later, in search of a college student to feature in a story about sexual assaults that occur at a prestigious university, Erdely interviewed Renda, who suggested Jackie for the story and made the introduction. Add wedding photos and fond memories. Bizarrely, U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel in Manhattan, who dismissed the lawsuit, also wrote: Their defamation claims are directed toward a report about events that simply did not happen. Yes, Castel, that is how defamation works. Had they done so, of course, they might have realized that some of the. But I have a pretty good notion that she violated some serious criminal statutes; after all, participating in a fraud involving the mails (a magazine) or wire (somewhere along the line) is a Federal issue. [24], UVA's student newspaper The Cavalier Daily described mixed reactions from the student body, stating: "For some, the piece is an unfounded attack on our school; for others, it is a recognition of a harsh reality; and for what I suspect is a large majority of us, it falls somewhere in between. On April 5, 2015, Rolling Stone retracted the article and published the independent report on the publication's history.[1]. Both of those peoplewho attend different colleges and bear no resemblance to the description Jackie gave of her attackersaid in interviews that they knew of Jackie but did not know her well and did not have contact with her after she left for the University of Virginia. Jurez y 18 de Marzo Col. Centro, C.P 96360 Nanchital, Ver. Copyright 2014-2021 by Robert SuttonLike what you read here? It was later revealed Erdely had not interviewed any of the men accused of the rape. [22][23] A few days later, President Sullivan suspended all Greek organizations until January 9, 2015. In Erdely's story, Jackie tells her three friends the night of the alleged event that she was raped by seven men over a three-hour period while rolling on a mat of broken glass. [26] A student quoted in The Daily Progress said that men at a nearby bar were "quick to yell 'insults and slurs' at the protesters as they walked by". [15], According to Los Angeles Times columnist Jonah Goldberg's summary of the story, on September 28, 2012, Jackie, a freshman at UVA, had a date with a Phi Kappa Psi member "Drew", a junior at UVA. Jackie Coakley -- United States. [77], Fellow Jezebel writer Jia Tolentino wrote an analysis of Erdely's story and reported on fraternity rush after the Rolling Stone article was discredited. "Under the scenario cited by Erdely", Wemple wrote, "the Phi Kappa Psi members are not just criminal sexual-assault offenders, they're criminal sexual-assault conspiracists, planners, long-range schemers. And I think the level of devastation that this Rolling Stone report that's now looking to go from a misremembered event to perhaps an actual hoax." In January, Eramos lawyers successfully forced Coakley to turn over text messages, emails and other communications pertaining to the case. [108][109], After the details in "A Rape on Campus" began to unravel, Rolling Stone's publisher Jann Wenner commissioned Columbia University's School of Journalism to investigate the failures behind the publication of the article. The Daily Caller | 1775 Eye Street NW | Suite 1150-290 | Washington, DC 20006, the possession of Virginia news outlet WTVR News, a month-long correspondence between Duffin and Monahan,, At one point, Monahan claims that Coakley suffers from lupus and is frequently hospitalized, which is how he claimed to have met her. After the Charlottesville Police made their official report, Wemple said: "What is left of the Rolling Stone piece? In the episode, Heather fabricates a gang rape at a fraternity. 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. "[87], Emily Renda, the university's project coordinator for sexual misconduct, policy and prevention declared that "Rolling Stone played adjudicator, investigator and advocate and did a slipshod job at that. There's a new piece (usually three) from Bob every weekday here on Substack. They arrived "minutes later" and found her on the corner next to the building. 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. Jackie is related to Kristen Mcgovern Kahn and David Charles McGovernas well as 2 additional people. At any rate, you surely remember. [170], Street artist Sabo papered Hollywood with posters styled like a Rolling Stone cover featuring the headline "Rape Fantasies and Why We Perpetuate Them". The best result we found for your search is Jacqueline Rose Coakley age 20s in Colchester, CT. A woman named Jackie Coakley, 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. [141] Froma Harrop issued a call for media outlets to begin to publicly name rape accusers, explaining that "reporters and editors should expand their sensitivities to include the reputations of those accused, not always justly". It was absurd. Erdely wrote that Randall was no longer friends with Jackie and, "citing his loyalty to his own frat, declined to be interviewed". The magazine reached a final settlement in late December with the members of the fraternity that were falsely maligned in the story. 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