News about Tawana Brawley, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

As our colleagues at The Two-Way reported, Tawana Brawley, the central figure in one of the most bizarre and racially polarizing cases in New York City's recent history, has begun to pay part of ...

Infamous hoaxster Tawana Brawley — whose outrageous rape lie 25 years ago inflamed racial tensions nationwide — yesterday was finally slapped with a court order to settle a hefty defamation ...

Start watching your pennies, Tawana. Twenty-five years after a teenage Tawana Brawley falsely dragged his name through the mud as a gang-raping, kidnapping racist, it’s payback time for Steven ...

CLAREMONT, Va. – Many people in this rural town of just 300 know the story of Tawana Brawley, but most have no idea her family lives among them. Brawley – whose claims of being raped by… ...

The Tawana Brawley rape allegations in the late 1980s left an entire community on the brink of “civil war” – and now, Fox Nation takes a closer look at one of the most racially-charged legal ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Tawana Brawley has started making payments to Steven Pagones, who won a defamation judgment against her in October 1998 after she falsely accused him of raping her.

It was 1987 when a black teenager, Tawana Brawley, said she had been raped and kidnapped by a group of white men in Dutchess County, N.Y. Her story of being attacked, scrawled with racial slurs ...

After 26 years, Tawana Brawley has finally begun paying damages to Steven Pagones, a man she falsely accused of being among a group of men who raped her.

Steven Pagones, pictured, a former Dutchess County prosecutor, says Tawana Brawley, who lied about a being raped by a gang of white men, still owes him $429,000, including interest, after falsely ...

Tawana Brawley is living in Virginia under a new name, still owing money to a New York lawyer she accused of raping her 25 years ago, the New York Post reports.

He was general counsel of Mr. Sharpton’s civil rights group, the National Action Network, and defended him in a defamation suit arising from the Tawana Brawley case. By Sam Roberts The case ...