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The confusion extends to who did what during the alleged assault.

In April, the woman looked at a picture of Reade Seligmann and said she was 100 percent certain that he forced her to perform oral sex. On Dec. 21, she said it was Evans who forced the oral sex.

She said Seligmann helped pull her into a bathroom for the assault but had cold feet about taking part "because he was getting married." Seligmann is neither engaged nor married.

In the latest statement, the woman says she arrived at the party at 11:10 p.m. on March 13, that she had a drink and danced for several minutes, and that the rape began at 11:40 p.m. and ended at midnight.

Her cell phone records included in court filings show that she was on the phone much of this time.

If her latest account is true, she made a seven-minute call to someone at her father's house while she was performing an erotic dance at the party, and was on the phone up to one minute before she says the assault started.

In all previous accounts, the woman said the attack ended shortly before she left in the car driven by Kim Roberts, the second dancer. Roberts called 911, reporting that she was the target of racial epithets as they left at 12:53 a.m., police records show.

The new account leaves 50 minutes unaccounted for between the end of the attack and the departure from the party.

The accuser's assertion that the assault ended at midnight contradicts time-stamped photos showing the two women dancing between midnight and 12:04 a.m.

A mustache or stubble?

Another problem in the case was the woman's identification of Evans.

On April 4, she viewed a photograph of Evans and said it looked like one of her assailants, except that the assailant had a mustache. On Dec. 21, Wilson asked her to describe Evans' mustache.

"It wasn't a real mustache, like yours," she told Wilson, who has a full mustache. "It was like stubble or a shadow."

"Like a 5 o'clock shadow?" Wilson asked.

"Yes, like that," the woman said.

Evans has a visible 5 o'clock shadow in the photograph.

(Staff writer Michael Biesecker contributed to this report.)

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