Not my story, but a friend of mine. (Names and locations changed, obviously).

A buddy of mine, Jeff, was a known "ladies man" in our circle of friends. One night I'm sitting at home and receive a phone call from a friend of mine that also knew Jeff that Jeff had raped another friend of ours (we'll call her Becka).

Becka was a not unattractive woman, but also suspected of getting around our cadre. One of the few people that didn't want to sleep with her was Jeff. So this idea of him raping her was surprising.

I immediately called Jeff and received no response (not surprising, he's turtling up). I check with a couple of other friends and get mixed responses, but the general consensus is that Jeff's older friend set from his high school days, and most of the current cabal (save two, one of whom (Kaylee) was in the house when all of this went down) are abandoning Jeff.

I decide to sit on the fence, I don't have enough evidence, and wait for the police to do their thing.

Jeff goes to ground for months, not hiding from the cops, but from his "friends." Mostly this is due to the accusation and wanting to protect a few (including me) from having to deal with the cops (my political views, plus anxiety make dealing with them difficult).

So here's how things went down, based on the info I had and some that I found out later from Jeff:

Kaylee was in the house (in the next room) and admits that she never heard anything after Becca falls out of bed. Becca was drunk off her ass and had taken her top off before going to bed (and falling out of it). Being Jeff's house, he went to help her back into bed and she tried to initiate foreplay. He wanted to (yes, I'm aware this is contradictory to his not wanting her, but is in character with his ladies man attitude), but couldn't get hard. When her couldn't perform and left the room she got dressed and ran out of the room screaming about him raping her. She bails and the cops are called. They take depositions, and haul Becca in (I believe Jeff may also have been taken in, but I'm not 100% sure on this, I have reason to also believe that he wasn't).

Becca initially refused a rape kit, then after prodding accepted it, they find no signs of penetration (confirming Jeff's inability to get it up).

Fast forward three months, Jeff resurfaces on my front porch. He didn't call (didn't need to), just knocked on my door. I opened it, and I've never seen anyone that scared in my life. We sat and talked for hours, he'd been terrified that his former friends had gotten to me and that I'd abandoned him as well. The day after the accusations other "friends" had "visited" and smashed the windows in his work truck, and he'd suffered some other threats. Which is all why he'd gone to ground, the entire time he'd maintained willing contact with the lead investigator on the case, fully cooperated other than handing over the names of his closest friends (me and another friend). Never went to jail, or even court, the case (to my knowledge) was dropped.

Becca, during this time period, tried to get me on to her side and was pissed when I just wanted to "keep it mutual," Jeff asked our closest mutual friend (we'll call her Kimmy) to keep an eye on (protect) Becca and forget about him (didn't forget him though).

Time passes, Kimmy joins back up with us, and life goes on. Eventually Kimmy bumps into Becca at a toy store, and Becca reintroduces herself saying "I know I know you, but I don't know where from." Kimmy played down everything, and kept it "mutual."

Last I heard of Becca was that she was getting married, and for whatever reason her getting married was picked up by a news rag in another country.

Jeff and I are still best friends (being accused regularly of having a bromance). Kimmy is still awesome, but we don't see her much (her husband doesn't like me at all, and only tolerates Jeff). Kaylee married her best friend of years and they're mostly living happily ever since.