• by Sara Guaglione , January 11, 2016

In the new court documents, lawyers harshly discredited Jackie, claiming her story told to Rolling Stone is based on a series of lies.

Jackie's lawyers fired back at Eramo’s recent filings in court documents.

“The story was a lie when she first told it in 2012, and it was no more true when Rolling Stone recklessly published the tale in 2014,” Eramo’s lawyers wrote in the documents.

Eramo’s lawyers argue that there is “no factual basis whatsoever” of any sexual assault in the case “to conclude that Jackie is even an 'alleged' victim of sexual assault, let alone an actual victim.”

Eramo’s lawyers claim that Jackie is “a serial liar who invented” her account told by the Rolling Stone and written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, including making up people, events and text messages.

In the documents, lawyers put Rolling Stone on the spotlight, questioning: “Did Rolling Stone simply invent the claims that Dean Eramo abused Jackie, discouraged her from reporting her supposed sexual assault, called UVA “the rape school,” and sought to suppress Jackie’s sexual assault to protect the university’s reputation — or did Jackie actually tell Rolling Stone those things?

"Did Rolling Stone ignore blatant red flags and gaping holes in Jackie’s story indicating that she was not telling the truth? And did Rolling Stone purposefully avoid uncovering discrepancies in Jackie’s account about her supposed gang rape and her subsequent interactions with Dean Eramo?”

Last year, in response to Eramo’s lawsuit against Rolling Stone, the publication made public a confidential letter that the magazine sent to Eramo's lawyers in February.

“In no small measure, Rolling Stone believed in the credibility of Jackie's story because it came with the imprimatur of UVA, and of Dean Eramo specifically," the letter states.

In the new court documents, Eramo's attorneys said they want Jackie to hand over her communications with the associate dean, other university officials and Erdely, among other things.

Jackie's lawyers challenged Eramo’s filings in court, saying Jackie shouldn't have to disclose private information because she's not a party to the Rolling Stone lawsuit and should be protected as a victim of an alleged sexual assault.

"What is tragic about this case is that Dean Eramo apparently believes she can rehabilitate her reputation by attacking a student she herself counseled and whom she referred to support groups and additional counseling following her report of sexual assault," the woman's attorneys wrote.

Jackie’s lawyers wrote that asking her to provide the information “constitutes exactly the abusive re-victimization that these protections were designed to prevent.”

University officials declined to comment, and Rolling Stone has not commented on the case.

Rolling Stone was slammed with three lawsuits last year, including Eramo’s $7.5 million defamation lawsuit. The UVA dean claims she was portrayed as the “chief villain” in the article.