Friends of "Jackie," the young woman featured prominently in a Rolling Stone article on rape at the University of Virginia, tell a different account of the night she was allegedly attacked—and say the magazine never contacted them. (Rolling Stone said it was told one refused to speak to them.) Andy, Cindy, and Randall, as they are referred to in Rolling Stone, spoke to The Washington Post. In its initial article, Rolling Stone described them as discouraging Jackie from reporting her alleged assault, but they told the Post they encouraged her to report it. Far more damning is their claim that the name Jackie gave them of her date—prior to the night of the attack—doesn't match anyone at U-VA. Later, Jackie used a different name for her alleged attacker when she told another group of friends. The Post reports a man whose name is similar to that new name says he did work with Jackie as a lifeguard, but never took her out and is not a member of the fraternity where she says she was raped. Furthermore, photos sent by the mystery date to Jackie's friends prior to the alleged rape were not of him, but instead were of a high-school classmate of Jackie's (who says he hasn't spoken to her in years).
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