Manti Te’o’s Dead Girlfriend Never Existed
According to a bombshell of a story by Deadspin’s Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey, Manti Te’o’s girlfriend never existed and certainly never died after a car accident and a battle with leukemia.
The incredibly detailed story says that Ronaiah Tuiasosopoa, a friend of the Notre Dame linebacker and Heisman Trophy finalist, concocted the dead girl — Lennay Kekua — and quoted a friend of Tuiasosopoa as saying he was “80 percent sure” that Te’o was “in on it” in order to get publicity.
The story concluded:
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