One of the Cornell 7 men accused of rape told investigators he was a victim, saying the woman performed oral sex on him while he was too drunk to consent, as Attorney General Letitia James takes over the reopened case.
The case was revived by a civil lawsuit filed on 16 September 2026 by a former student identified as Jane Doe, which accuses seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity of drugging and sexually assaulting her at the chapter house near Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in October 2024. She alleges she was too intoxicated to consent. Her complaint also names the university, the fraternity and its organisations, and a local bar. The men deny wrongdoing, and the claims remain unproven.
