Sexual assault at universities is tied to some major American social issues of the day. Feminism. Intersectionality. Privilege. Factual feelings. Campus liberalism. The alt-right backlash. Transgender bathrooms (some have argued they must be shut down to protect women from being assaulted by libidinous perverts).…
The University of Virginia chapter of Phi Kappa Psi has settled its defamation suit against Rolling Stone regarding allegations that some of its members participated in a gang rape, a claim that was put forth in the now-retracted 2014 article “A Rape on Campus.”
Harry Styles, the one with the long hair from One Direction, is the latest band member to go solo and thus inevitably cover Rolling Stone.
In November, a jury awarded former UVA administrator Nicole Eramo $3 million after concluding that Rolling Stone and writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely had defamed her with their now infamous 2014 story “A Rape on Campus.” The magazine was in the process of appealing the ruling, but on Tuesday announced that they’d reached a…
On Wednesday, the Migos—the rap trio that’s both humorously and quite earnestly described as the Beatles of this generation—were compelled to backtrack on comments that came across as homophobic in a recent Rolling Stone profile. But there’s another part of the story that’s unsettling.
Emma Stone is arguably one of the more in-demand and well-known actresses of our times, on par with Jennifer Lawrence and others of her ilk. You’d think that at this point in her career, directors working with her at this stage would take what she had to say seriously. I am very sorry to report that you are wrong.
A jury awarded the University of Virginia’s Nicole Eramo $3 million Monday after ruling that Rolling Stone and journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely had defamed Eramo with actual malice by publishing their 2014 article “A Rape on Campus.”
A jury has ruled in favor of a University of Virginia dean who sued Rolling Stone and reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely for defamation over a now-retracted story from 2014 about an alleged gang rape on campus. Nicole Eramo argued that the story was irresponsible, showed a “reckless disregard” for the truth, and damaged…
A $7.5 million lawsuit against Rolling Stone and reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely is underway, brought by University of Virginia’s Associate Dean of Students Nicole Eramo. In her testimony, Erdely said she erred in relying on “Jackie,” the student who claimed to have been gang-raped at a campus fraternity: “It was a…
Earlier this month, Rolling Stone published a piece on Against Me! singer Laura Jane Grace that was accompanied by a photo of Grace lying naked from the waist up in a bathtub. Though not the first time a famous woman has been photographed topless for the magazine, it might just be the first time the woman’s nipples…
A defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone filed by Nicole Eramo, University of Virginia’s Associate Dean of Students, is set for trial next month. A judge has ruled that the jury will have to decide whether the magazine acted with a “reckless disregard for the truth” in publishing Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s now-debunked…
A federal judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed against Rolling Stone by three members of Phi Kappa Psi, the fraternity implicated in the debunked and retracted gang rape story published by the magazine in November 2014. The judge ruled that while the story might have portrayed the fraternity in a negative…
Why is Oscar Isaac kidnapping this poor dog? It’s a question that goes unanswered in the latest Rolling Stone cover story about Isaac’s incredible rising acting career and his status as the “internet’s boyfriend.”
“Jackie,” the UVA student at the center of the discredited, retracted campus rape story from Rolling Stone, must testify in a defamation lawsuit against the magazine, a judge has ruled. Jackie’s attorneys had argued that the woman would be “re-traumatized” if she were compelled to be deposed in the suit.
Lawyers representing “Jackie,” the University of Virginia student who became the subject of a retracted, controversial Rolling Stone piece, are asking a judge to cancel her scheduled deposition. According to her lawyers, Jackie, who says she was a victim of gang rape, will be “re-traumatized” if she is required to…
One of the more unbelievable capers in modern journalism is, of course, that an A-list actor was dispatched by the editor-in-chief of a formerly gonzo music magazine to secretly interview the fugitive mastermind of a deadly Mexican drug cartel, for an interview that he was allowed to pre-approve before publication.…
Chris Martin—in conjunction with a Rolling Stone cover shot that screams “LOVE ME!” and “wyd...” at the same time—says he once wrote a song for Beyoncé that she rejected because it was bad.
One of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s lawyers is saying that Sean Penn fabricated a quote in his famed Rolling Stone interview with the drug kingpin. “It’s a lie, absurd speculation from Mr Penn,” attorney Juan Pablo Badillo told Reuters.
A year and a half ago, the Rolling Stone published a now-retracted article telling the story of a woman called Jackie’s gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity, and the gross misconduct of administrators that followed. One of those administrators, associate dean Nicole Eramo, has since filed a defamation suit…
5 Seconds of Summer—the glossy, confectionery pop-punk act that’s been catapulted towards world domination with an assist by One Direction and the hordes of teen girls who love them—has landed its first Rolling Stone cover story. Here they are—naked and covered in their own lyrics and song titles—and strangely, the…
