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Damien Shanklin -- a defensive end for the LSU football team -- is being investigated by campus police and the district attorney in connection with a rape allegation made by a fellow student ... but his lawyers say he "maintains his innocence."

According to ESPN, the East Baton Rouge District Attorney's Office confirmed they're investigating Shanklin after a student named Kendall Francis made her allegations against him public in a TikTok video she posted last month.

According to the Title IX complaint, reviewed by ESPN, Shanklin and Francis engaged in consensual intimate contact on October 18, 2025 -- before they began to have penetrative sex.

Orange is the new obsession, at least for the month of October anyways! Can you score the Hollywood hottie showin' off her assets on the beach?!

She skyrocketed to fame on VH1's "Love & Hip Hop." She was once linked to rapper Fetty Wap. You and her 5.2 million Instagram followers can see this ain't her first sexy shot showcasing her gorgeous curves.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard's former fiancé Ken Urker posted a cryptic live stream just hours before his sudden death ... and the clip is eerie.

Ken shared the TikTok Live Wednesday night ... appearing to be traveling somewhere as wind whips through the audio. He doesn't appear to say anything during the video.

By Thursday evening, Ken was declared dead.

NSYNC had a little reunion in NYC Thursday ... but it seems not everybody showed up for the "TRL" taping ... because Justin Timberlake was MIA.

TikTok video from outside the building caught Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, JC Chasez, and Chris Kirkpatrick through the window as they stood next to Carson Daly.

As you can see from the clip ... the guys are smiling and waving at the onlookers, but JT was nowhere to be found.

Tony Romo is officially out at CBS Sports ... ending his nine-year run with the network months after his highly publicized OWI arrest.

CBS confirmed to TMZ Friday it had "mutually agreed to part ways" with the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback ... thanking him for his contributions and wishing him the best moving forward.

J.J. Watt -- who has filled in for Romo so far this season -- will remain in the booth alongside Jim Nantz and Tracy Wolfson.

The woman accusing 7 Cornell fraternity brothers of drugging and sexually assaulting her at Chi Phi claims that later in the evening two frat bros took her into a closet and raped her ... which she says was the worst part of her night.

Jane Doe recalled the alleged closet encounter in her interviews with Cornell's Title IX investigators ... claiming she was given ketamine in the closet and "it was just raping" ... according to a transcript obtained by CBS News.

A photo of Jane Doe that was shared in the alleged Chi Phi Snapchat group chat shows her smiling with another man ... one of her attorneys shared the photo with CBS, and the snap has been blurred to protect her identity.

Right after the photo was sent to the group chat ... a frat member in the group wrote ... "Shop still open?"

Jessi Draper officiated her sister's wedding ceremony ... and it was a wild one, to say the least ... because video shows the bride and groom drinking each other's blood at the altar.

The reality TV star presided over their Tuscany ceremony on August 26 ... but a new Instagram video shows just how committed the newlyweds are.

"The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" star watched as Kiera Draper Lewis and Payton Lewis pricked each other's fingers and dripped their blood into a goblet.

James Kennedy and his fiancée, Jordan Meyers, are getting ready to welcome their first child ... but it sounds like they want to wait until birth to find out their baby's gender.

The couple was out in Los Angeles this week when a photog asked if they're having a boy or a girl ... and they said they didn't know yet and it will be a "surprise."

James says the "Vanderpump Rules" family has been very supportive, and they are both incredibly excited to become parents.

Tate McRae pulled out her most stylish outfit during Paris Fashion Week ... sporting a sexy lace top in France's capital while hanging with Hailey Bieber.

The singer-songwriter wore the lacy number over a black bra ... and protected her eyes with dark shades. She added leather pants to the outfit.

Tate strode to her car, tall and proud ... while Hailey walked behind her in a black leather jacket and jeans -- keeping her face down as she passed photogs.

Michael Douglas is getting a 40+ year lie off his chest ... admitting he romanced Kathleen Turner's stone while shooting a famous movie together in the 1980s.

The actor revealed the relationship in his new memoir "One Helluva Ride" ... claiming he and his then-wife, Diandra Luker, were essentially separated when he went down to Mexico to shoot the 1984 smash hit "Romancing the Stone."

During filming, Michael says he and Kathleen became close -- even though she apparently wasn't the first choice to play his love interest -- and eventually "fell hard for each other and began a relationship."

Actress Mary Louise Weller -- best known for her role as Mandy Pepperidge in the 1978 classic comedy film, "Animal House," is dead.

Mary died Thursday, one day before her birthday, after battling a brief illness ... her longtime boyfriend, Michael Roy Curtis, told The Hollywood Reporter.

The official cause of death is unclear.

Mary became famous for playing Pepperidge -- a stunningly beautiful, snobby college cheerleader -- opposite John Belushi, who played the infamous Bluto of Delta House -- a troubled fraternity at Faber College.

A manhunt is underway after 3 masked thieves swarmed a man exiting a pricey West Hollywood streetwear store, robbed him and shot him ... before slamming their getaway car into a Ferrari.

The shooting went down just outside the Fugazi storefront Thursday ... with cops responding to a call around 5:30 PM ... KTLA reported.

Surveillance video shows the masked trio hopping out of a nearby car, rushing toward the victim, surrounding him, and then firing on him as they fled the scene.

Josh Hartnett says a terrible bout of food poisoning made it almost impossible for him to walk ... and it struck at the most inopportune time, because he was filming "Verity."

During a press tour for the new movie, Josh's costar Anne Hathaway recalled his crappy health issue as "so much worse" than projectile vomiting.

Josh says he couldn't walk for 10 days because his muscles were so cramped from all the vomiting and dehydration ... which made filming the flick all the more difficult.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is remembering her best times with her late baby daddy, Ken Urker ... posting several heartfelt photos and videos from their relationship ... and calling it her "greatest love story."

The social media star took to Instagram to bid a fond farewell to her former fiancé ... sharing videos of him planting smooches on her, singing his heart out, and playing with their daughter, Aurora.

One memory looks straight out of a Disney movie ... a video where they share a piece of spaghetti just like in "Lady and the Tramp."

Elon Musk's baby mama is speaking out after he unfollowed her ... saying the billionaire broke up with her with "no warning" only days after telling her he loved her ... and sharing portions of a private conversation with the world.

Shivon Zilis posted on X about feeling blindsided by the sudden split, writing ... "It’s hard to go from in love to let go in a week with no warning, but that’s just how it is sometimes."

But her lengthy post wasn't a bitter breakup rant ... instead, Zilis gushed about how she was grateful she made Elon feel "deeply understood, nurtured, and peacefully loved with stability and gentleness."

Cornell fraternity brothers accused of plying a fellow student with drugs and gang-raping her told university officials the woman told them, "we're all consenting adults here," and group sex was "normal in medieval times."

In their account to investigators ... the seven frat bros give varying descriptions and explanations as to how the night unfolded ... in investigative files obtained by the New York Times.

One of the accused, Diego Sarabia, told investigators that Jane Doe had said something to the effect of "This was normal in the medieval times."

Matthew Ingalls told investigators that he asked Jane Doe if she wanted to have a threesome with him and fellow frat member, Jonathan Newell.