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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Emmanuel Morilla

Cornell Rape Accuser Threatened With Harm Unless She Withdraws Lawsuit Against Fraternity Members, Lawyer Says

Questions over campus safeguards and fraternity oversight have put one of America’s best-known Ivy League universities under intense pressure (Credit: YouTube/CBC News)

A former Cornell University student who alleges she was drugged and sexually assaulted at a fraternity house has received threats urging her to withdraw her lawsuit, her lawyer Thomas Giuffra said on Sunday, 4 October 2026.

Giuffra told CNN's State of the Union that his client, identified as Jane Doe in court papers, had received 'multiple threats' to 'silence or harm' her. He said he had also been threatened but was 'not afraid of these people'.

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