Screenshot via Chirayu Rana in 2024. Michaela Bublikova/@dudesinsuitsnyc
The Chirayu Rana-JPMorgan saga keeps developing, and the latest detail has changed the entire trajectory of the story. According to reports, JPMorgan offered Rana $1 million in March to settle his claims, just a few weeks before he filed the viral lawsuit that accused former JP Morgan co-worker Lorna Hajdini of drugging him, forcing him into non-consensual sex acts, and directing racial slurs at him and his wife.
As reported by the Wall Street Journal, JP Morgan reportedly offered Chirayu Rana $1 million to settle his sexual assault claims before he elevated them to the judicial system by filing a lawsuit. Rana rejected the lawsuit and instead filed a lawsuit seeking $11.75 million in damages.
JP Morgan conducted an internal investigation and did not find any wrongdoing on the part of Hajdini.
“Following an investigation, we don’t believe there’s any merit to these claims. While numerous employees cooperated with the investigation, the complainant refused to participate and has declined to provide facts that would be central to support his allegations,” the blue chip bank said in a statement.
JP Morgan reportedly offered Chirayu Rana a $1 million settlement before he filed his viral lawsuit against Lorna Hajdini
While the settlement offer doesn’t prove anything about whether the allegations are true or false, it does suggest that JP Morgan were hoping to nip Rana’s claims in the bud before they gained any traction, which is exactly what happened when the story broke late last month.
Rana’s original lawsuit went massively viral on social media due to one partiuclar allegation that claimed Hajdini said to him: “I bet your little Asian, fish head, wife doesn’t have these cannons.”
POV you’re a junior banker at JP Morgan and your MD wants to have a performance chat pic.twitter.com/VCMkrMspu4
— Velvet Milkman (@velvetmilkman0) April 30, 2026
I sent this to my boss at work and she replied how shocking it is and how she’d never do that to her employees https://t.co/K3WEMUrMgr pic.twitter.com/BWguIYG0N6
— Mads (@europemaxxed) April 30, 2026
https://t.co/VbDhZPSYEB pic.twitter.com/tjuoX33S1A
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) April 30, 2026
In her lone statement to the media, Hajdini maintained her innocence, saying via her lawyers:
“Lorna categorically denies the allegations. She never engaged in any inappropriate conduct with this individual of any kind and has never even been to the location where the alleged sexual assault supposedly took place.”
After Rana’s initial lawsuit was redacted and withdrawn for “corrections,” he filed a second lawsuit this week making further allegations of abuse.
Rana, who filed as “John Doe” before his identity was revealed, alleged that Hajdini — a managing director at JPMorgan — drugged him with roofies and sexual performance-enhancing substances, forcibly performed oral sex on him while he cried, directed racial slurs at him and his wife, and threatened his career to keep him compliant.
During a second encounter she allegedly ordered him to perform sex acts, pushed him to the ground, and made additional racist remarks targeting his Nepalese heritage. He claims the abuse began in spring 2024, continued for several months, caused PTSD and professional harm, and that JPMorgan retaliated against him when he reported it by placing him on involuntary leave while Hajdini remained employed.