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Crystal Gail Mangum (born 1978) is an African American stripper and escort who falsely accused three white Duke University lacrosse players of raping her in March 2006, triggering the Duke University lacrosse team scandal.^[1]^[2] According to the attorney general of North Carolina, "the inconsistencies [in Mangum's story] were so significant and so contrary to the evidence that we have no credible evidence that an attack occurred in that house that night,"^[3]^[4] and on April 11 2007, all charges were dismissed.^[5]^[6]

Crystal Gail Mangum - March 16th, 2006

1 Duke scandal
2 Education and military background
3 Criminal history and credibility
4 Prosecution of the Case
5 Family
6 Notes

Duke scandal

Main article: 2006 Duke University lacrosse team scandal

On March 13, 2006, Mangum and another stripper, Kim Roberts, were hired by members of the Duke University lacrosse team to perform as exotic dancers at a house in Durham. The residence was rented at the time by three members of the Duke University lacrosse team. Mangum used "Precious" as her working name on the night she danced at the Duke house.^[7] After being involuntarily committed to the Durham Access Center (a mental health and substance abuse facility) later that night, she told somebody for the first time that she was raped by three members of Duke University's men's lacrosse team. ^[8]^[9] The investigation led to the indictment of three members of the lacrosse team. David Evans,^[10] Reade Seligmann, and Collin Finnerty were charged with first degree forcible rape, first degree sexual offense, and kidnapping. Duke's nationally ranked lacrosse team's season was suspended for the rest of the season as a result. As Mangum is black and the accused team members are white, the case highlighted racial tensions in the local North Carolina community and attracted national attention. It also led to intense criticism of the district attorney in the case, Michael Nifong.

At the time of her accusations, she was attending North Carolina Central University. She was also working as a stripper and escort for the Allure Escort Service^[11]^[12] in Durham, North Carolina.

On April 11 2007 North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper announced that all charges against the three lacrosse players had been dropped and that "based on the significant inconsistencies between the evidence and the various accounts given by the accusing witness, we believe these three individuals are innocent of these charges." Cooper stated that his own investigation "led us to the conclusion that no attack occurred." He said the charges resulted from a "tragic rush to accuse and a failure to verify serious allegations."^[13]^[14]

Education and military background

Associate's Degree, Durham Technical Community College^[15]
Before the 2006 incident, Mangum was majoring in Police Psychology at North Carolina Central University and had maintained a 3.0 GPA ^[16]
Radio Operator & Navigator, United States Navy^[17]
- Mangum enlisted in the fall of 1996 for two years of active duty with six additional years in the reserves. She began her duty in the summer of 1997, but was discharged in mid 1998. The U.S. Navy has not released the reason for this discharge.^[17]

Criminal history and credibility

Crystal Gail Mangum has a long history of mental problems and has been diagnosed with a bi-polar disorder.^[18] She also has taken anti-psychotic medications such as Depakote and Seroquel.^[19]

In 2000, she was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol, but not convicted. Court records indicate that her driver's license was revoked but do not indicate why.^[20]

In 2002, she stole a taxi from a man to whom she was giving a lap dance. A high speed chase then ensued, and when the deputy chasing her approached the stolen taxi on foot, she tried to run over him. She pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of larceny, speeding to elude arrest, assault on a government official and driving while impaired. She was sentenced to 3 weekends in detention.^[21]^[22]

Lawyers for the Duke lacrosse players have said that Mangum was intoxicated and possibly under the influence of drugs.^[23] Defense attorney Bill Thomas urged her to retract her statement, saying that the rape allegations were concocted to avoid a charge of public drunkenness. The Duke defense lawyers or media reports have said that:

DNA results revealed that the woman had sex with a man who was not a Duke lacrosse player. Attorney Joseph Cheshire said the tests indicated DNA from a "single male source" came from a vaginal swab taken from the accuser. Media outlets reported that this DNA was from her boyfriend.^[24]
A DNA report released in December 2006 revealed that sperm from several males was found in the accuser's body and on her underwear; none of which was from any of the Duke players. Mangum has denied engaging in any sexual activity in the days before the assault, saying that she last had sex a week earlier. She also said that her attackers did not use condoms and ejaculated.^[25]^[26]
She had made a similar claim in the past which she did not pursue. "On Aug. 18, 1996, the dancer - then 18 years old - told a police officer in Creedmoor she had been raped by three men in June 1993, according to a police document. She did not pursue the allegations. The officer who took the woman's report 10 years ago asked her to write a detailed timeline of the night's events and bring the account back to the police. 'Apparently she never returned,' Granville County DA Sam Currin said."^[27]
The accuser told authorities that in 1998, her husband threatened to kill her. However, she did not appear at the court hearing and thus the charges were dropped.^[28]
The accuser frequently passed out while performing as an exotic dancer at the Platinum Club in Hillsborough, according to the former club manager. The former manager also stated that Mangum had to be dragged out of the establishment onto gravel either one or two nights prior to the March 13 party: "She was heavy. It took four or five of us to carry her outside. She was dead weight. That's how passed out she was. She never woke up. We could have put the scratches on her. That could be how she got them."^[29] The former manager went on to describe the accuser as "a club employee whose problems with other dancers and customers sometimes made it hard for her to make money," citing an event in which she started to pull a female customer's hair.^[30]
According to the Platinum Club owner, the accuser danced at the club on March 23, 24, and 25. Those were the same dates she told doctors she was "in excruciating pain from the ... beating." The owner said the accuser did not say anything about being raped 10 days earlier.^[31] Similarly, 60 Minutes released a video of her allegedly dancing at the club less than two weeks after the alleged incident, again leading to the media doubting how traumatized and in pain she actually was.^[32]
The strip club's security officer said that the accuser told co-workers four days after the alleged incident that she "was going to get money from some boys at a Duke party who had not paid her," adding that she essentially said, "I'm going to get paid by the white boys." The security guard did not make a big deal of it "because no one takes her seriously."^[33]