Eighteen years after she said Duke LaCrosse players raped her, Crystal Mangum admitted she lied and asked the men to forgive her. Mangum is serving time in prison for murdering her then-boyfriend in 2013.

Nearly two decades after alleging that three Duke lacrosse players had raped her at a party in 2006, Mangum admitted that she "made up a story that wasn't true"

Mangum and another dancer had been hired to perform at party, thrown by Duke lacrosse players, on March 13, 2006. She claimed that players raped her in blockbuster allegations that touched on hot-button topics such as sex work, race and class.

Crystal Mangum says she lied about being raped and sexually assaulted by three former Duke University lacrosse players in 2006.

The woman who in 2006 falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of raping her -- a case that made national headlines and stirred tensions about race, class and the privilege of college athletes -- has admitted publicly for the first time that she fabricated the story.

Crystal Mangum, the woman who accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape, now says she lied about the encounter

The woman who in 2006 falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of raping her has admitted publicly for the first time that she made up the story

Mangum, then working as an exotic dancer, accused Evans, Finnerty, and Seligmann of raping her at a party near Duke's campus in 2006.

Crystal Mangum, the former exotic dancer who accused three Duke men’s lacrosse players of rape in 2006, igniting a national firestorm, admits she lied about the encounter on the web show “Let’s Talk with Kat,