UVA gang rape 'victim' Jackie 'made up the story of her attack so that her unrequited college crush would come to save her' reveal new text messages

The 9,000-word Rolling Stone article about a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house sparked a national outcry about sexual violence on college campuses in America.

The extensive piece told the story of how an 18-year-old was brutally attacked by seven male students at a party in September 2012 - then left to suffer the consequences of her attack alone without the help of friends or school officials.

But soon after ‘A Rape on Campus’ was published in November 2014, it was retracted by the magazine after huge holes emerged in the tale told by the alleged victim – identified in the article only as ‘Jackie’. As a result, the magazine is facing numerous defamation lawsuits.

Now, hundreds of text messages obtained by lawyers representing UVA’s associate dean show how the whole saga was sparked by Jackie’s crush on a boy who didn’t feel the same way - and how she faked a love interest and cried rape so he would come to her rescue.

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The debunked Rolling Stone article 'A Rape on Campus' stemmed from the alleged victim's crush on a boy. 'Jackie' (left) faked a love interest and cried gang rape so Ryan Duffin (right) would come to her rescue 

The 9,000-word Rolling Stone article (pictured) sparked a national outcry but was found to have significant inaccuracies and was investigated by Columbia University's school of journalism

Ryan Duffin, 21, quickly realized that Jackie, who he met on his second day at UVA, had a crush on him, but says he made it clear he was not interested.

‘I think that began to become pretty clear maybe about a week after I met her,’ he told CBS6. ‘She started expressing some physical interest in me, which I quickly rebuffed.’

It was this that led Jackie to hatch an elaborate catfishing scheme to win Duffin’s affections.

She told her friends that she had met someone – a student in her chemistry class called Haven Monahan, who she would later accuse of rape.

But Jackie also convinced Duffin to text her love interest – pretending to be a girl named Brianna.  

The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house where 'Jackie' claimed she was gang raped. The fraternity is now suing Rolling Stone for $25 million over the discredited article

‘She came up with this plan and got me and Alex [another friend] to pretend to be other girls in Haven’s class and text Haven to gauge whether he was a good person or not,’ Duffin said.

The messages, sent between September 2012 and December 2014, were turned over as evidence in lawsuits filed as a result of the sensational article.

They show that Monahan was desperate to date Jackie, but hindered by her interest in another student (Duffin).

As Monahan, she tries to make herself more appealing to Duffin - for instance, claiming to not like flowers and chocolates 'like most girls' and insisting Jackie is 'special'.

As herself, she tells Duffin that Monahan is 'creepy' and 'persistent'. 

'Please get him to leave me alone!' she texted Duffin. 'Tell him I sound stupid and like a waste of his time.' 

Shockingly, she even appears to have fabricated having a terminal illness in messages to Duffin. 

She tells him: 'It’s a big deal because people treat you differently, like you’re about to break at any given moment. 

'And it’s not cause they like you and it’s not cause they care...it’s because you’re perishable and that scares them.' 

But then, she tells Duffin that she is going on a date with Haven.

'She said that when they got up to his bedroom there were other men in the room he locked the door behind her and forced her to perform oral sex on five men in the room,' Duffin told CBS6.

He says he urged Jackie to report the rape, but she refused. In October 2012, the messages show that Duffin was suspicion at the time of both Jackie and Monahan.

They stopped speaking, but after Duffin read the Rolling Stone article, he contacted Jackie to apologize for not realizing the 'magnitude of the situation'.

Jackie then insists that the reporter took 'liberties' and apologized for the way Duffin and his friends are portrayed. 

They stop speaking again when Duffin again raises doubts about her story.

'I’m portrayed as a heartless friend basically I’m telling her not to report the rape because I want to join a fraternity,' he said. 

In the Rolling Stone article, Jackie said Haven – who was called ‘Drew’ in the article – of luring her to the frat house where she claimed to have been attacked.

She said she called Duffin and two other friends after escaping at around 3am and running barefoot into the street with her face beaten and a blood-splattered dress.

Bur Duffin insisted that she looked 'pretty normal' that night. 

The article's author, Sabrina Erdely, claimed that after 'Jackie' reached out to the three friends - Duffin (called Randall in the article), Alex Stock ('Andy') and Kathryn Hendley (Cindy) - 'launched into a heated discussion about the social price of reporting Jackie's rape'.

Hendley allegedly said: 'She's gonna be the girl who cried "rape", and we'll never be allowed into any frat party again.'

But all three challenged Rolling Stone's accuracy and said they were never contacted by the reporter. 

A police investigation found there was no evidence to support the version of events she gave to Rolling Stone and no-one called Haven Monahan was enrolled at UVA. 

In November last year, Daily Mail Online revealed that Jackie, now 21, has left the school – but she is still facing being deposed over the claims she made in Rolling Stone.

Despite apologizing for getting the story so wrong, the magazine is being sued by the Psi Kappa Psi fraternity, who are seeking $25million in damages, and three fraternity members maligned in the article are also suing separately for undefined damages.

UVA’s associate dean Nicole Eramo has also filed a lawsuit against the magazine and reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely for $7.5million.