"The general rumor that was going around was that it was a consensual thing."
Two investigations are underway into a former Cornell University student's allegations that she was raped at a fraternity house in 2024 -- one to determine whether criminal charges should be brought and another to examine how the university handled her case.
Newly obtained videos reviewed by ABC News show members of Cornell's Chi Phi fraternity being questioned by university police in the weeks after the alleged ****** ault.
One of the video shows Chi Phi members who were allegedly in the house that night, but not involved in the group ****** , telling Cornell University police they heard it was all consensual.
One fraternity member told police in the video that "what people were saying was that there was like multiple consenting adults in this room."

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A woman who accused seven members of a fraternity at Cornell University in 2024 of rape reportedly told the school's investigators that she "felt like bait" on the night of the alleged ***** ault.
"I felt like lions around me," she said during a 2025 hearing, according to ABC News. "It just was a totally debilitating place to be in."
The comments were included in a 99-page report prepared by the university as part of its ***** le IX investigation, per ABC.
The report also included comments from a fraternity member who Cornell's investigation concluded did not engage in the ***** ault but was found responsible for "attempted ***** ual exploitation."
"I was sorry that maybe if it wasn't consensual and she was victimized, I was sorry for not stopping it," the fraternity members said, according to ABC.

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N.O.R.E., the rapper and host of the popular podcast Drink Champs, has responded to a ****** ual ****** ault lawsuit brought against him by Carmen Bryan, describing her claims as "invented interactions" that are "entirely false."
The denial comes two days after Bryan filed a 20-page civil complaint against N.O.R.E., real name Victor Santiago, alleging the rapper was intoxicated when he forced himself on her in the middle of a packed Manhattan nightclub in 1999. According to the lawsuit, Santiago "physically overpowered" Bryan and "committed an act of non-consensual digital penetration," all while ignoring her pleas for him to stop. The alleged ****** ault only ended when other clubgoers reportedly pulled Santiago off Bryan.
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Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed suggested that reporters press him about the Israel-Hamas war because of his name and his faith.
Speaking on Detroit Public Radio's "MichMash" podcast, El-Sayed pushed back on host Zach Gorchow's line of questioning about the Israel-Hamas conflict, suggesting that his name and Muslim faith play a role in the media attention surrounding the issue.
"You've been asked many times whether you support a two-state solution regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and you generally say you support equal rights to self-determination for Jewish Israelis and Palestinians," Gorchow said. "Can you tell us, what does that mean?"
Michigan Dem Hopeful Abdul El-sayed Jabs Cnn Giving Him 'Non-consensual Colonoscopy' In Recent Interviews
Michigan U.S. Sen candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, speaks with media after a debate at WoodTV studios on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, in Grand Rapids, Mich.

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A former Nebraska women's basketball coach has acknowledged engaging in a five-month ***** ual affair with a player he supervised on the Nebraska team but said it was consensual and is now making an argument in court that he should be dismissed from that player's lawsuit against him, according to documents obtained by USA TODAY Sports.
The coach is former Cornhuskers ***** istant coach Chuck Love, who is being sued by the player, Ashley Scoggin, as part of a ***** le IX lawsuit in federal court. Scoggin sued Love and Nebraska in 2024, alleging she was groomed to have a ***** ual relationship with Love and then was kicked off the team after their relationship was uncovered in a ruse at a team hotel in February 2022.
In response, Love filed a motion for summary judgment July 31 that would drop him from the lawsuit if successful. This motion argues while he had a ***** ual relationship with Scoggin at Nebraska, it was consensual and doesn't violate the constitution.
"Plaintiff (Scoggin) and Love engaged in a consensual ***** ual relationship from September, 2021 – February, 2022," said the brief filed with the motion from Love's attorney, Denise Frost. "They told no one about it. Love did not make, imply or impose threats, retaliation or adverse consequences on Plaintiff in order to have ***** ual contact with her. Plaintiff never told Love 'no' to ***** ual contact or refused to engage with him."
Love's supporting brief said Scoggin initiated and engaged Love in ***** ually charged conversations and created provocative nude and semi-nude photos of herself and sent them to Love on Snapchat. Love's brief also said he and Scoggin had consensual ***** ual contact in various places, including the Speedway parking lot in Lincoln, in Love's office, in a Nebraska locker room, at Love's home and hotel rooms when the team traveled out of state. It noted Scoggin was 23 at the time and Love was 35.

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Socialite Paris Hilton is pushing the U.S. House of Representatives and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to pass a bipartisan bill that would legally deep-six those who make and distribute **** ual deepfake images.
The model and former reality television star has backed the DEFIANCE Act, sponsored by Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Laurel Lee (R-FL), which would give victims the right to sue those who "knowingly produce, distribute, solicit and receive or possess with the intent to distribute nonconsensual **** ually-explicit digital forgeries."
The bill passed the Senate in January in a unanimous vote.
Johnson was asked about the DEFIANCE Act Tuesday, but didn't commit to getting it passed.

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NEW YORK, July 17 (Reuters) - A New York state judge dismissed a lawsuit by a former JPMorgan Chase banker who ‌in graphic terms said his former supervisor coerced him into ‌sex and demanded his submissiveness, though the lawsuit is expected to be refiled in federal court.
Chirayu Rana, the former banker, will pay some legal fees of JPMorgan and his onetime colleague Lorna Hajdini as a condition of the dismissal, Justice Dakota Ramseur wrote on Thursday.
The dismissal, which Rana had ‌requested, does not affect Hajdini's ⁠defamation countersuit against him. Her lawsuit remains in the state court in Manhattan.
Rana, who was a vice president ⁠in leveraged finance, accused Hajdini of using her seniority to coerce him into non-consensual ****** ual activity over several months.
The complaint said Hajdini used racially derogatory language to threaten Rana, who is of Asian descent. It also ‌said she raped and drugged him, claimed she "owned" him, and threatened to sabotage his career if he didn't fulfill her ****** ual demands.

A woman who claims she was raped by Top Boy actor Michael Ward has denied suggestions the encounter was consensual.
Ward is accused of raping the woman in a car after meeting her at a nightclub in east London in January 2023.
The 28-year-old denies two charges of rape and three counts of ****** ual ****** ault against the woman, and has said all ****** ual activity between the pair was consensual.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, broke down as she told the jury she "did not understand the situation" she was in and that she "never would have got in that car with him" if she had known.
Jurors previously were told she knew Ward had been in films and on TV and felt flattered when he asked for her Snapchat handle.

BOLINGBROOK, ILLINOIS - AUGUST 08: Phil Mickelson of HyFlyers GC stands on the 14th hole on day one of LIV Golf Chicago at Bolingbrook Golf Club on August 08, 2025 in Bolingbrook, Illinois. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)
Accusations have surfaced this week about six-time major champion Phil Mickelson making inappropriate contact with a female employee at a private golf club he was a member at. In a statement from his attorney, Mickelson appears to be ready to fight the allegations against him.
His attorney, Tom Clare, told Golf Digest that there is video evidence that will exonerate Mickelson of any wrongdoing. "There is a great deal of misinformation circulating and, while Phil’s full attention is devoted to a private family health matter, he has retained defamation counsel and is determined to hold accountable any publication or individual trafficking in speculation or false rumors." According to the Golf Digest reporting, The Farms Golf Club claims that there is no camera footage of the incident.
The incident occurred at The Farms Golf Club, in Rancho Santa Fe, California. Mickelson is no longer a member of the golf club and was removed from the golf course on the day of the incident. According to Golf Digest, a female employee accused Mickelson of, "nonconsensual and inappropriate physical contact" prior to a round. The incident was reported to supervisors and Mickelson was asked to leave the property in the middle of his round.
Anonymous sources were cited by Golf Digest about the unwanted contact with a female employee at the club. While not much has been divulged from the situation, a spokesperson for Mickelson did tell Golf Digest, “Any misunderstanding has been cleared up. Phil continues to attend to a family health matter and is uncertain when he will be able to return to professional golf.”