{"id":3006,"date":"2014-07-14T21:15:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T01:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altwire.net\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2023-12-06T06:36:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T11:36:17","slug":"conor-oberst-allegations-retracted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/ru\/conor-oberst-allegations-retracted\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Oberst Rape Accuser: &#8220;I Made Up Those Lies&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The young woman who previously <a href=\"https:\/\/altwire.net\/ru\/2014\/01\/06\/bright-eyes-frontman-accused-of-rape\/\" data-lasso-id=\"525\" data-old-href=\"https:\/\/altwire.net\/2014\/01\/06\/bright-eyes-frontman-accused-of-rape\/\"><strong>claimed that she had been raped<\/strong><\/a> by &#8216;Bright Eyes&#8217; front-man <a href=\"https:\/\/altwire.net\/ru\/\u0444\u0440\u043e\u043d\u0442\u043c\u0435\u043d-bright-eyes-\u043e\u0431\u0432\u0438\u043d\u044f\u0435\u0442\u0441\u044f-\u0432-\u0438\u0437\u043d\u0430\u0441\u0438\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\/\">\u041a\u043e\u043d\u043e\u0440 \u041e\u0431\u0435\u0440\u0441\u0442<\/a> when she was 16, has now come clean to reveal her accusations were &#8220;100 percent false&#8221;. Joanie Faircloth, who accused Oberst of sexually assaulting her in the comments of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xojane.com\/it-happened-to-me\/it-happened-to-me-i-dated-a-famous-rock-star-all-i-got-was-punched-in-the-face\" data-lasso-id=\"526\" data-old-href=\"http:\/\/www.xojane.com\/it-happened-to-me\/it-happened-to-me-i-dated-a-famous-rock-star-all-i-got-was-punched-in-the-face\" data-old- rel=\"noopener\"><strong>XOJane<\/strong><\/a> article in December 2013, released a notarized statement today (available to read via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/jtes\/woman-who-accused-conor-oberst-of-rape-i-made-up-those-lies\" data-lasso-id=\"527\" data-old-href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/jtes\/woman-who-accused-conor-oberst-of-rape-i-made-up-those-lies\" data-old- rel=\"noopener\">Buzzfeed<\/a><\/strong>) in which she retracted her allegations and openly apologized to Oberst for the harm to his reputation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The statements I made and repeated online and elsewhere over the past six months accusing Conor Oberst of raping me are 100 percent false. I made up those lies about him to get attention while I was going through a difficult period in my life and trying to cope with my son&#8217;s illness. I publicly retract my statements about Conor Oberst and sincerely apologize to him, his family and his fans for writing such awful things about him. I realize that my actions were wrong and could undermine the claims of actual sexual assault victims and for that I also apologize. I&#8217;m truly sorry for all the pain that I caused.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In February 2014; in response to the allegations, Oberst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/conor-oberst-files-libel-lawsuit-over-rape-allegations-101891\/\" data-lasso-id=\"528\" data-old-href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/conor-oberst-files-libel-lawsuit-over-rape-allegations-101891\/\" data-old- rel=\"noopener\"><strong>filed a libel lawsuit<\/strong><\/a> against Ms. Faircloth and stated that her claims were &#8220;absolutely, unequivocally false,&#8221; upon which he requested that Faircloth retract and come clean on her accusations.<\/p>\n<p>A representative for Oberst, who is currently touring in Europe, said that the singer was not immediately available for any comment.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young woman who previously claimed that she had been raped by &#8216;Bright Eyes&#8217; front-man Conor Oberst when she was &#8230; <a title=\"Conor Oberst Rape Accuser: &#8220;I Made Up Those Lies&#8221;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/altwire.net\/ru\/conor-oberst-allegations-retracted\/\" aria-label=\"\u0411\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0448\u0435 \u043d\u0430 Conor Oberst Rape Accuser: &#8220;I Made Up Those Lies&#8221;\">\u0427\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0434\u0430\u043b\u0435\u0435<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1558],"class_list":["post-3006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-conor-oberst","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}