Posted on 10/22/2008 2:24:41 PM PDT by abb
The woman at the center of the scandal that rocked Duke University, Durham and the lives of the three lacrosse players plans to return to the city next week to promote her new book.
Crystal Gail Mangum is scheduled to hold a news conference at the Know Bookstore on Thursday to promote, “The Last Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story.”
Magnum will donate $1 from the purchase of each book to help battered women, according to Vincent Clark, a representative for Fire! Products Inc., a film studio that is representing her.
Mangum was a student enrolled at North Carolina Central University in March 2006 and also worked as an exotic dancer when she performed at a party hosted by several Duke lacrosse players.
It was at that party, Mangum alleged, that three white members of the team trapped her inside a bathroom and raped and sexually assaulted her. David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann were later indicted on the allegations.
"My advice would be that if this book comes out and it contains things that are not true about what happened on that evening … it would be my advice to them to make sure she doesn't make one single penny off of it," Joseph Cheshire, who represented David Evans, said in an August interview.
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(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...
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Do you think Nancy Grace will buy a copy?
MEDIA ADVISORY
Contact:
Vincent Clark
919-630-3806 or 310-606-2732
vince@firefilmz.com
Press Event for The Last Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story
Los Angeles - fire! Films and Books is holding a press conference to announce the publishing of its new book, The Last Dance for Grace. Crystal Mangum, will be available to discuss her reasons for writing her memoir and to answer some questions about the book. The event is only open to credentialed media. A list of approved media is at the end of this advisory. Admittance will only be granted to media outlets who are confirmed and on this list. You will be asked to sign in and provide media credentials at the door. Space is limited and it is important that you do not show up without prior clearance. You may obtain your credentials begining at 9:00 AM on Thursday, October 23. A table will be set up outside of the venue.
Excerpts of the book are attached. You may not use the contents of that file in your broadcast, newspaper, blog or on the internet prior to 11:00 AM EDT, Thursday, October 23, 2008. Please honor the embargo. The file is attached so that you can get a sense of what the book is like and to generate questions. Use of the material without express permission is a violation of copyright laws.
PUBLIC STATEMENT - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Last Dance for Grace is NOT a rehash of the Duke lacrosse case. The purpose of the book is to provide information about Crystal Mangum’s life and to shed new light on the subject. We stand by the decision of North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper. We believe in the rule of law and do not advocate the prosecution or conviction of anyone who has not committed a crime. We support the efforts of anyone who is seeking justice for people who have been wrongly accused. At no time has anyone associated with this project advocated the wrongful prosecution or conviction of any person. Further, this project is not intended to advance a political agenda or to sensationalize the tragic events of March 13, 2006. We are only seeking closure and want everyone associated with this incident to move on with there lives.
WHAT
A press conference to introduce the book, The Last Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story and an open question period to last approximately 30 minutes.
WHO
Order of speakers
Bruce Bridges - Owner of the Know Bookstore and Durham community activist
Michael Denisoff, MBA - President of Denisoff Consulting and project consultant
Dr. Myra Shird, Ph.D.- Project consultant, authored the foreword for the book and former Director, Speech Communication Program at NC A&T State University
Vincent “Ed” Clark - President of fire! Films and Books and co-author
Crystal Mangum - Author
WHEN
Thursday, October 23, 2008
10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Check in and setup begins at 9:00 AM
*No one may enter the venue after 9:50 AM
WHERE
The Know Bookstore - * Contact directly for questions on parking, power outlets, sound and other logistical issues.*
2520 Fayetteville St
Durham, NC 27707
(919) 682-7223
Approved Media List - * Note * You may NOT enter the venue or loiter in the parking area of the Know Bookstore for safety concerns and traffic control. Wear your media credential provided by our staff at all times during the event. Please follow the directions of the security staff at all times. You will be asked to leave the venue at the discretion of the security director. No additional credentials will be granted at the door.
I thought criminals shouldn’t be allowed to profit from their crimes.
> Magnum will donate $1 from the purchase of each book to help battered women
Well, that’s $3 that won’t go very far.
Probably sell about as many copies as Nancy Pelosi sold of her last book - what was that - like 4 or something?
Well, I guess she has to make a living somehow since “Brothers” closed down.
“We are only seeking closure and want everyone associated with this incident to move on with there lives”.
“closure” for whom?
To the wrongly-accused men: Sue her, attach the profits of the book, and donate ALL proceeds to shelters for battered women. Thus this wench doesn’t get a penny and can’t pull any moral trump card about taking money away from battered women.
Scum.
There is no effen way this skank could write a book. She couldn’t even remember to change her underwear.
Is is ghostwritten by Ayers or Nifong?
Nancy Pelosi will be her marketing advisor
This lying beast wrote a book??
Well I guess she has to be added to the civil suits. They bent over backwards to be nice to her. They should have known better, but that PC Duke education told them black people are like pets and cant be held responsible for their actions like other adult people.
So now she has published this book claiming she was raped and they will need a libel other tort findings against her to keep from being smeared anew. They should have sued her in the first place.
No comment......
Necessary to retain Freeping privileges — I’ve already been suspended too many times — and this nappy headed lying Ho isn’t worth the trouble...
I remember when lying skank ho’s like this would be afraid of being locked up, especially after making false allegations. Now they get book deals and are celebrated by the diversity.
She should be in jail for what she put those boys thru
It was a big mistake that this woman was never charged and conviccted. She should have gone to jail.
I seriously hope that this vagabond is sued for libel and then thrown into prison for a long, long time. Liberals are so racist, they’ll go to any lengths necessary to incarcerate a black man. Then, they’ll claim that THEY are the vanguard of the blacks! This is madness, and ought to be stopped by any means necessary under the law.
Whoops, disregard that last reply if it made it through. Liberals are so racist and so politically motivated, they’ll attack a WHITE person under any circumstances necessary, even though their policies consistently work against the interests of well meaning African Americans and Hispanics.
Do the crayons come with it or are they extra?
She learned to write awfully quickly.
Maybe Ayers helped her!
It would be impossible for a Durham jury to convict her of anything. She is a hero in Durham and at NC Central Univ (a n-th tier historically black college).
AG basically said so in the press conference. She has a 2000+ page medical/psych file (that’s FOUR REAMS of paper!!!) and is very mentally ill in addition to her multiple drug addictions.
Reportedly, CNN did an extensive interview with Mangum earlier this year, but never aired the interview.
Mangum also still claims an assault occurred, reportedly.
College boys spending good money to hire a crappy dancer who proceeded to take them to the cleaners.
That’s whats “tragic”.
Co-author's blog.
I don’t for a minute believe that that skank could even form sentences for a book.
The only "assault" that occurred was to the optic nerves of anyone unlucky enough to be at the party when that skank took her clothes off.
This niwit sl*t is not capable of writing a book. If she was, she wouldn’t need to be selling her body and boffing people all over Raleigh-Durham.
Presser? Who would be interested?
“to promote her new book.”
Hellooo! Shouldn’t this woman be in jail? She has no right to a “new book.” She should be on her knees begging forgiveness for such damaging lies! That she is free to sell a book is, itself, a legal disgrace!
Crystal Gale Magnum. Soon to be part of Barack Hussein Obama’s concubine.
An extensive interview with Crystal? And CNN didn’t air it? Well, no wonder the poor girl has to write a book to get her side of the story told.
Can’t help but notice that only credentialed media may attend the presser. Guess that excludes the blog hooligans. Too bad!! Liestoppers and KC were the only real journalists covering this story from the start.
Thanks for the comic relief, abb. I need it as we approach this election.
I hear she is now dancing in Fayetteville.
The KNOW bookstore is on Fayetteville st in Durham which is in the “all pepper, no salt” side of town. It is eclectic and interesting, with lots of “alternative” black literature. Everything from Marxist tracts to Gospel books to black power stuff to Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele and Clarence Thomas.
They have an open jazz jam session there on Friday nights which is FABULOUS. One of the premiere alto sax players in the world (used to be prof of Math at U of Colorado) is a friend of mine and plays there frequently. W. Marseilis (sic?) has been there as well, because there is a tremendous music program (jazz, mostly) at the local black college NC Central, just down the street. The soul food (meals on Friday nights for the jazz) is awesome. Enough lard to fry a whale, but amazing collards, beans and rice, fried chicken, fried okra, sweet potato pie, banana pudding, cornbread and iced tea! Several nights there I have been the only white guy. I was more worried about navigating thru the parking lot (it is a bad part of town) than being in the store, though.
It is interesting, but not surprising, that she would be doing her book gig there. The Know is a weird place. You will find your typical professional victim race baiters there, yet one toothless old black guy with a white goatee (all I have ever heard him called is “Pop”) will swear a blue streak at the “crypto-Marxists”(a phrase I believe he borrowed from Maggie Thatcher) and swear that Ronald Reagan was our greatest president. He knows free market economics and swears that the welfare programs are a demonic scheme by the wealthy white elite to keep black folks down and destroy them. No one has ever given me a hard time there. Maybe because I am cheery and dont’ apologize for being white or being there. Only one time a guy kind of bumped me hard and I just turned around and said “I am here to listen to the music, awright?” and he said, “sure honk, listen away” and that was that.
I may drift on over there tomorrow if work permits, and if I do, I will have my picture taken in front of the store and post it here.
I really do have sorry and pity mixed with disgust about Ms Mangum. She is just another crack whore who got caught up in something way bigger than she is. The really evil people here are the Durham DA’s office and the race baiting pimps who showed up like flies on a turd to pimp her out. A truly compassionate leader in the black community would have helped get her into some substance abuse program, gotten her a lawyer who is a good p.r. spokesperson, had her issue a statement that she was under the influence of drugs and alcohol and recanted her story, and then tried to help her with some decent, caring, hardworking black people in a local black church. She was mad at being insulted and abused by the rich white kids (”HEY NI66ER, TELL YOUR GRANDPA THANKS FOR MY COTTON SHIRT!”), but someone who cared about her could have helped her see that this was not the way to “punish” them. Again, the leadership in the local black community used her, no differently than the arrogant little entitled sh*ts at Duke used her.
I am sure this book thing is just a way to try and get a little money out of the notoriety. (captain obvious, at your command, here)
You call what she does dancing? ROTFL!
I didn’t think dancing was so messy.
Oh, you guys, give the girl a break, she’s a talented lapdancer!
Sounds like they have a Lifetime Network movie in the pipeline, or an after school special.
She fits right in down there in Fayette Nam.
Although she hasn’t been quite the same since she was pregnant, got drunk and was dragged across the parking lot at the dance club in Durham...
Obviously, you’ve not been paying attention to what happened. There was a conspiracy to frame innocent people - sort of Durham version of an old-fashioned lynching. It’s all documented in the numerous civil lawsuits now working.
Oh my gosh! I just went to Liestoppers and two of the hooligans are on the list!
How did they manage that? Pigs are really flying. I can’t wait to read their reports of the presser.
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