A defamation suit against Rolling Stone magazine over its debunked article about a University of Virginia gang rape has been dismissed by Southern District Judge P. Kevin Castel, who said the lawsuit brought by three former fraternity members cited comments offered as speculation and hypothesis rather than fact.
Castel noted that none of the three members of Phi Kappa Psi were identified by name or physically described in the November 2014 article that told in chilling detail a student’s account of being raped by seven men at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house in September 2012. The men—George Elias IV, Stephen Hadford and Ross Fowler—were members of the fraternity but have since graduated.
