A former exotic dancer who made headlines for falsely accused three Duke lacrosse students of raping her has been freed from prison in the 2011 slaying of her boyfriend.
Crystal Mangum, 47, was let out of the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh just before 10 a.m. Friday after serving a 14-to-18 year sentence for fatally stabbing beau Reginald Daye in April 2011, according to a report by NBC News.
Mangum donned a gray sweatshirt and khaki pants on her way out of the facility.
She was then escorted in a corrections vehicle to Durham to live with a friend, corrections spokesman Brad Deen said.
Mangum admitted in 2024 that she had made up the allegations that David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann raped her in 2006 when she was performing at a Duke party with another stripper.
Former Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred in 2007 for lying in court and failing to disclose information that would have cleared the three men.
The charges against them were dropped that same year.
Mangum was also convicted of setting a fire that almost burned her house down while her three kids were inside a year before the killing of her beau.
