Rolling Stone sued over Uni rape story
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Three University of Virginia graduates and members of a fraternity profiled in a debunked account of a gang rape in a retracted Rolling Stone magazine story filed a lawsuit against the publication and the article鈥檚 author on Wednesday, court records show.
The three men, George Elias IV, Stephen Hadford and Ross Fowler, filed suit in US District Court in New York. They are also suing Rolling Stone鈥檚 publisher, Wenner Media.
A lawyer for the men said they suffered 鈥渧icious and hurtful attacks鈥 because of inaccuracies in the November 2014 article, which was written by journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely.
Also on Wednesday, The New York Times reported that Will Dana, Rolling Stone鈥檚 managing editor, will be leaving the magazine next month. Dana said in a statement that after 19 years at Rolling Stone, 鈥淚 have decided that it is time to move on.鈥
When asked whether Dana鈥檚 departure was linked to the retracted story, a spokeswoman for the magazine鈥檚 publisher, Jann Wenner, said that 鈥渕any factors go into a decision like this鈥, according to the report.
In the lawsuit, the three 2013 graduates said the article 鈥渃reated a simple and direct way to match the alleged attackers鈥 from the alleged gang rape to them based on details provided in the story. The men are suing on three counts, including negligent infliction of emotional distress, and are asking for at least US$75,000 for each count.
Charlottesville police have said they found no evidence to back the claims of the woman identified in the story only as 鈥淛ackie,鈥 who said she was raped in 2012 by seven men at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house.
An associate dean of the university sued Rolling Stone for more than US$7.5 million in May, saying a debunked and retracted account of an alleged gang rape on campus cast her as the 鈥渃hief villain.鈥
No one at Rolling Stone was fired as a result of the article, titled 鈥淎 Rape on Campus.鈥 Dana posted an apology on the publication鈥檚 website, and Erdely also apologized in a statement.
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