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Aug 16, 2016 · The woman who accused “ The Birth of a Nation ” director and star Nate Parker of raping her while they were both Penn State students died in 2012 at age 30, according to family members and...
Aug 16, 2016 · The woman who accused “ The Birth of a Nation ” director and star Nate Parker of raping her while they were both Penn State students died in 2012 at age 30, according to family members and...
The sister of a woman who accused director Nate Parker of rape and later committed suicide said that her sister was broken by the experience, and that the men involved “sucked the soul and...
Aug 16, 2016 · The woman who accused The Birth of a Nation’s Nate Parker of rape back in 1999 committed suicide in 2012, when she was 30, according to a statement her brother gave to Variety today. The man gave only his first name, Johnny, citing his late sister’s desire to remain anonymous.
- Anna Silman
- Contributor
- The Accuser’S Testimony
- Parker’s Statements
- Video: Nate Parker Addresses College Rape Case
- The Phone Calls
- Allegations of Harassment
The alleged victim’s account was detailed in her courtroom testimony, a transcript of which was obtained and published by Deadline. A couple of weeks before the end of her freshman summer session at Penn State, she describes meeting the older Parker and finding him “attractive.” They exchanged phone numbers, and when she returned home for a period ...
Parker and Celestin tell a very different version of the events. According to Parker’s police statement obtained by Deadline, the sex was consensual and his “ordeal” began on Oct. 13, 1999, when the accuser called him “out of the blue” claiming to be pregnant. During the phone conversation, the accuser falsely claimed to be pregnant, which she late...
During the phone call, Parker said in his testimony, he told the woman “she didn’t drink around me and sure didn’t seem drunk that night.” Parker also addressed a moment in the conversation (corroborated by the transcripts), in which the accuser asked for an apology from Celestin so she “could move on.” Parker remembered he told the accuser that “J...
Parker and the accuser exchange their recollections of the night during the taped phone calls, which were entered as exhibit in court. After prefacing the call under the false pretense of a pregnancy, the accuser began to ask Parker to fill in details from the night. When she asked how Celestin became involved in the sex, Parker replied that his ro...
After Parker was acquitted and Celestin won a new trial on appeal, the accuser filed a civil suit against Penn State for the school’s alleged “inadequate response to the sexual harassment [the alleged victim] experienced as a result of being raped by two male Penn State students,” according to the lawsuitobtained by Deadline. In the lawsuit, her re...
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- Mike Miller
Aug 17, 2016 · Court documents allege that Parker and Celestin harassed the accuser after she filed her police report, and that the two had hired a private investigator who then showed the woman’s picture to people on campus, revealing her identity and ultimately prompting more harassment.
Aug 16, 2016 · The woman who accused Nate Parker and his roommate Jean Celestin of raping her while they were students at Penn State in 1999 died in 2012 at the age of 30, and according to a new interview...
