Lawyers for 'Jackie' - the University of Virginia student at the center of a since redacted Rolling Stone article about campus rape - have admitted to accessing the email of her alleged rapist. Lawyers for Nicole Eramo, a school administrator who is suing the magazine, say this proves that Jackie made up her attacker

Lawyers for the alleged rape victim at the center of a now-retracted Rolling Stone article about the University of Virginia have practically admitted she made up the persona of her attacker.

In November 2014, Rolling Stone published an article on rape culture at the Charlottesville school that centered on the experiences of a student named 'Jackie' who claimed she was gang-raped by a group of fraternity brothers in an initiation ceremony. Jackie told reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely that she was lured to the frat house by one of the brothers, a student named Haven Monahan who she met in chemistry class.

The magazine was later forced to retract the article when independent investigations by the Charlottesville Police, the Washington Post and Columbia University found Jackie's story was unsubstantiated. Police also were never able to find evidence that anyone matching Haven Monahan's description even existed.

Following Rolling Stone's embarrassing retraction, UVa associate dean Nicole Eramo filed a defamation lawsuit against the magazine for their negative portrayal of her in the piece.

Then, last month, Eramo's lawyers made a stunning revelation in court documents, saying they found evidence that the email address belonging to Haven Monahan was accessed via the internet network at Jackie's lawyers' law firm in March - suggesting Jackie created the email herself and perhaps the entire persona of Haven.

On Tuesday, Jackie's lawyers responded to the accusations, saying they had indeed signed into the email account. Still, they refused to go so far as to admit that Jackie made up Haven's persona, as Eramo's lawyers allege.

One of Eramo's lawyers, Libby Locke, told The Washington Post that the filing shows her lawyers 'admit accessing it, which means Jackie is Haven, a point they’ve refused to answer all along.'

Eramos lawyers argue that Jackie made up the persona of Haven Monahan to make Ryan Duffin, another UVa student who Jackie had a crush on, jealous.

In November 2014, Rolling Stone published a story centering on Jackie's claims that she had been raped by a group of fraternity brothers at the school in what appeared to be an initiation ceremony

Subsequent reviews of the story found that there was no evidence of Jackie's claims. Above, students walk outside of the fraternity that was accused in the story

Data obtained from Yahoo in a subpoena shows that the email was created on October 2, 2012, by someone on the university computer network.

The next day, Duffin received an email from 'Haven' passing on a letter that Jackie had written to him about how much she loved Duffin.

In her conversations with Duffin and other UVa friends, Jackie said that Haven was a junior that she met in chemistry class who had a crush on her and asked her out on a date.

She sent them pictures of Haven too, but those pictures ended up being of a young man Jackie went to high school with in northern Virginia who attended a different college and hadn't been to Charlottesville in years.

UVa associate dean Nicole Eramo's (right) lawyers claim Jackie made up the persona of Haven Monahan to make another student named Ryan Duffin (left), who she had a crush on, jealous

The night of the alleged attack, Jackie said she went to dinner with Haven and then went back to his fraternity for a party where she was led to an upstairs room and raped by Haven's fraternity brothers for hours.

Since Jackie is not a party in this lawsuit, her lawyers have asked that she be left out of further court filings and continue to describe her as a 'sexual assault victim' who 'merely seeks to be left alone'.

They have branded Eramos lawyer's attempts to further invalidate her story as 'unhinged' attempts to 'harass and abuse' Jackie.

For Eramos lawyers, proving Jackie lied definitively only strengthens their case against Rolling Stone for publishing an inaccurate article that tarnished the reputation of the academic administrator.