Sabrina Erdely
| Sabrina Erdely | |
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| Born |
Sabrina Rubin 1971/1972 (age 44–45) |
| Residence | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Spouse(s) | Peter Erdely |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | GLAAD Media Award (2012) |
Sabrina Rubin Erdely is an American magazine reporter based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who became known in 2014 as the author of a discredited article in Rolling Stone describing the alleged rape of a University of Virginia student by several fraternity members. The story, titled "A Rape on Campus", was later found to be unsupported by evidence. The magazine retracted the article following a Columbia University School of Journalism review which concluded that Erdely and Rolling Stone failed to engage in "basic, even routine journalistic practice". As a result, Erdely was named in three lawsuits with demands of more than $32 million combined for damages resulting from the publication of the story.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Erdely has written about rape and bullying. Prior to the Rolling Stone article, her work appeared in GQ, Self, The New Yorker, Mother Jones, Glamour, Men's Health and Philadelphia.
In November 2016, a federal court jury found Erdely was liable for defamation with actual malice in a lawsuit brought by University of Virginia administrator Nicole Eramo.
Erdely graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. According to Erdely, she was initially a pre-med student but became an English major while working on the staff of 34th Street, the magazine insert for the Daily Pennsylvanian, the campus newspaper. During her tenure at 34th Street, her colleague Stephen Glass "threw a righteous fit" after she and a colleague "concocted a funny and obviously made-up travel story" for the magazine. (Later, in an article she wrote for the University of Pennsylvania alumni magazine, she called Glass a "sociopathic creep" because, she said, he fabricated stories published as factual journalism in The New Republic.)
After leaving Penn, Erdely went to work for Philadelphia before pursuing a career as a freelance magazine writer.
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