Court docs: Rolling Stone recently fired author of debunked UVA rape story

Erdely’s status with Rolling Stone has been kept under wraps since UVA dean Nicole Eramo sued the magazine for defamation because of its reporter’s Nov. 2014 article “A Rape on Campus.” In previous disclosures Erdely appeared to still be employed by the magazine.

But according to papers filed by Eramo in the U.S. District Court of Western Virginia on Friday, “Rolling Stone is no longer working with Sabrina Rubin Erdely and has terminated her contract.”

The school administrator claims that Eramo and Rolling Stone smeared her in an article detailing claims made by former UVA student Jackie Coakley about a 2012 gang rape on campus.