Scandals

The New York Attorney General is now investigating allegations of gang rape at Cornell University, which means some fraternity brothers could become rape defendants ... so based on what we know now, who would win at trial?

Harvey and Mark Geragos have reviewed some of the most salient evidence based on transcripts of the police investigation and other evidence that has surfaced.

They spend half their time on the latest edition of the "2 Angry Men" podcast making the best case for prosecutors, and the other half on how the defendants would try to poke holes in the prosecution's case.

The attorney representing Nolan Wells' friends is speaking out about an indicted individual who he says brutally threatened to kill his client and slit the throats of his 2 younger brothers.

During a sit-down interview with Kayleigh McEnany on Fox News' "Saturday in America" ... attorney Tyler Cox said that the jailed harasser threatened Warren Hudson and his stepmom Ashlee Cole -- who is a chancery judge -- by claiming "they were going to slit his brothers' throats in front of them."

Cox said ... "And so that person is thankfully being held without bond and hopefully seeing justice soon. And that's just one example of many."

A newly released video taken from inside Cornell's Chi Phi frat house shows the room where Jane Doe says 7 fraternity members drugged and raped her ... and the clip shows the chaotic scene left behind.

In the footage obtained by ABC that was taken after the Cornell chapter was suspended ... trash could be seen littered throughout the room amid cluttered pieces of furniture ... and on one of the tables lay a fentanyl test strip.

The video is downright eerie ... and at one point, the camera panned to a poster of a sorority class.

One of the men being sued over an alleged 2024 gang rape at Cornell University sued the college last March over the consequences he was hit with for the incident, TMZ has learned, and just days ago he lost his case.

John Doe sued Cornell over the investigation conducted into the alleged rape that took place on October 19, 2024, at the Chi Phi fraternity house.

According to legal docs, Doe says he received the Snapchat message -- "Free P***y" -- and he and one other frat brother went to the room ... he says because they were unsure if the message was a joke or not.

He also says he went there to get a new vape. He says "By no means were we going there to get free p***y." He says when they arrived "Everybody in there seemed fine."

New York Governor Kathy Hochul is blasting Cornell University Police and the local D.A. over their handling of the alleged Cornell gang rape ... saying somebody knew more than they were letting on.

Hochul -- speaking Friday morning alongside Attorney General Letitia James -- said she was "deeply disturbed" that campus police sent prosecutors only a partial record after interviewing the woman ... adding the case hit home for her as a mother who once dropped her own daughter off at college.

She also ripped Tompkins County D.A. Matthew Van Houten for not interviewing her himself ... saying the conflicting information now emerging is why she appointed James as special prosecutor.

Hochul said ... "We don't know enough ... and I want the truth."

Chris Harrison's new dating show is sparking a nasty back-and-forth between Fox Nation and Warner Bros. TV ... with Fox firing back after 'Bachelor' producers took issue with "The Vow."

Here's the deal ... Warner Bros. lawyers sent Fox Nation a cease-and-desist, claiming Chris' new show is trying to ride on the coattails of "The Bachelor" ... taking issue with some visuals in a new promo for "The Vow."

In their response, obtained by TMZ, Fox Nation says ... "While FOX Nation respects the intellectual property rights of others, you wrongly assume that Warner Bros. holds any rights whatsoever in a falling roses motif or in the words 'The Bachelor' when used colloquially to describe a single man.”

The United Cajun Navy leader who helped find Nolan Wells' body on Horn Island is pushing back on some of Ben Crump's latest claims ... saying key details were presented misleadingly.

Brian Trascher joined us on "TMZ Live" Monday ... accusing Crump's team of using "selective verbiage" during a press conference last week that made parts of the case sound more suspicious than he believes the evidence supports.

Brian pointed to questions surrounding Nolan's phone, including a forensic expert correcting the timeline for the last instance when Nolan locked the device.

Attorneys representing Nolan Wells' friends are speaking out against bomb threats they say have been made against their clients ... in the wake of claims that Snapchat messages were deleted from Nolan's phone.

In a Friday press release ... attorneys Edward Andrew Paltzik and Tyler Cox said Nolan's pals Jax Pitalo, Warren Hudson and Morgan Seymour "refuse to be intimidated by today's litany of bomb and death threats."

The legal team added that these threats came from people "outside the community."

Tim Tebow is putting his relationship with Life Surge on pause after the wealth seminars reportedly left attendees in debt as part of an alleged scam.

The football legend announced he'll be taking a break as their spokesperson and pausing his relationship with the wealth-building company until he can "learn more about the facts."

Tebow also told reporters his team is investigating Life Surge in the wake of the bombshell report that claims seminar attendees were pressured into dropping $50K on investment mentorships.

The District Attorney who investigated Nolan Wells' death fired back at the late teen’s family lawyer Ben Crump ... hours after he held a press conference with alleged new evidence.

Jackson County District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath criticized Crump's claims Thursday that texts were deleted on Nolan's phone.

Crump and a forensic expert his team hired said they discovered data had been deleted from the phone. They said the missing messages were on Snapchat.

McLlrath said, "The user action discussed by [Crump's team] is from other snapchat users, not someone physically accessing Nolan Wells' phone."

She added, "If the Crump team has evidence to the contrary, they have not provided it to us. The Grand Jury report outlined the other evidence they received, including cell phone downloads, surveillance data, GPS data, and the printed report of Nolan’s cell phone."

She ended with another dig at Crump ... writing if his team "genuinely has new information or evidence that Nolan Wells was murdered they should stop playing games and immediately provide it to me."

Authorities are investigating the death of 4-year-old Jayde Wooten who was found upside down in a trash can full of water and fish.

According to WGXA, the girl's father told a deputy that he'd just gotten home and couldn't find his daughter in her room.

He says he then woke up Jayde's mother, who claims to have fallen asleep while Jayde was eating in the kitchen.

Attorneys representing Nolan Wells' friends say they didn't delete the Snapchat messages that the family's lawyers claim were scrubbed from his phone ... and are adamant they're not to blame.

Edward Andrew Paltzik -- who represents Jax Pitalo, Warren Hudson and Morgan Seymour -- tells TMZ ... "Warren, Jax and Morgan did not erase anything and never had access to his phone. If anything was erased, they didn't do it."

Their other attorney, Tyler Cox, tells us ... "A girl from the group got all the phones left in the boat (which included Nolan's) and put them in Wyatt's truck, and it stayed there until Christine's friend came over to get Nolan's phone. The same girl in the group retrieved the phone from the truck and gave it to Christine's friend around 1:30 AM."

Nolan Wells' attorneys have released the state's autopsy report ... and they say it raises new questions about the official theory of his death.

The Mississippi report says there was no fluid or debris within the airways of his lungs.

It mentions bruising in the tissue on his scalp on both sides of the back of his neck ... and says there were no other external or internal injuries and that no internal organ abnormalities contributed to his death.

The state's report was signed Aug. 17 ... but still lists Nolan's cause and manner of death as undetermined. It says the body was examined on July 7.

Jeffrey Epstein's former attorney and accountant are under investigation ... and the FBI is leading the probe and seeking witness testimony against them.

Attorney Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn -- who are the executors of Epstein's estate -- are the subject of the inquiry ... a law enforcement source told NBC News.

The source also told the publication that interviews with witnesses have been ongoing.

Nolan Wells' death has been determined to be "consistent with a drowning" ... months after the 18-year-old vanished during a Fourth of July boating trip to Mississippi's Horn Island.

According to the Mississippi State Medical Examiner's autopsy report, Nolan's manner of death was ruled "undetermined."

“The Grand Jury finds that the position of, the condition of, time of discovery, and location of Mr. Wells’ body is consistent with drowning,” the report read. The Grand Jury, which consisted of 13 men and 10 women, was impaneled on April 20, per local reports. They met again on September 14 and ended on September 18. The report also noted Nolan did not have cocaine in his system, despite rumors.

The American Airlines passenger who was duct-taped to his seat after an in-flight meltdown is finally speaking out about the incident ... claiming he has no memory of the chaos he allegedly caused.

While appearing in court last week ... Layne Arthur Lundeen told the district court commissioner ... "I don’t remember any of what happened," ... according to The Baltimore Banner.

When his charges were brought up ... Lundeen responded ... "I assaulted a police officer? Is that what it says? I don't have glasses."