When Lorna Hajdini went to work on Monday, April 27, 2026, it would have been hard for her to imagine that by the end of the week she would become a meme, a Megyn Kelly segment, and the most talked-about finance executive in the Northern Hemisphere.
Hajdini is 37. She is an executive director in JPMorgan’s Leveraged Finance division. She has been at the bank since 2011. She graduated from NYU Stern. She volunteers for Minds Matter, a nonprofit that helps low-income high schoolers get to college. Colleagues described her to the New York Post as a “top performer.”
None of that would matter by Thursday.
What He Said She Did
“Do you find it plausible that he protested and started to cry as she was saying ‘your little Asian, fish head wife doesn’t have these cannons?’… I don’t believe that at all!”
Megyn and @adamcarolla are calling BS on the JP Morgan story heard around the world. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/0CcDLk0fO0
— The Megyn Kelly Show (@MegynKellyShow) April 30, 2026
On Monday, a former colleague filed a lawsuit against Hajdini in New York County Supreme Court. He accused her of drugging him with Rohypnol, forcing him into sex acts, calling him “my little Arab boy toy,” and threatening to destroy his career if he didn’t comply. He said she showed up uninvited at his apartment, removed her shirt, insulted his wife’s ethnicity, and forced herself on him while he cried. He filed under the name “John Doe.”
By Wednesday night, the Daily Mail had published the complaint. By Thursday morning, it was everywhere. By Thursday afternoon, Megyn Kelly was reading the most graphic excerpts on her show and suggesting Hajdini “needs to” work “on her flirtation routine.”
Hajdini’s attorneys issued one statement through the Post. She “categorically denies the allegations,” they said, and has “never even been to the location where the alleged sexual assault supposedly took place.”
Never even been there.
The Lever That Didn’t Exist
Just got accepted for a junior position on the leveraged finance team at JP Morgan pic.twitter.com/BiBAnNEXyu
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) April 30, 2026
Then things started to fall apart. Not for Hajdini. For the lawsuit.
The lawsuit’s entire premise was that Hajdini controlled her accuser’s career — his bonus, his promotion, his future at the bank. According to the New York Post, she didn’t. Hajdini reported to managing director Brandon Graffeo. Her accuser reported to a different managing director, Jon Wolter. They worked in the same division. They were not in the same chain of command. She had no say over his compensation. According to the Post’s reporting, the lever the lawsuit said she pulled did not exist.
None of this proves what did or did not happen behind closed doors. But it does raise a question about how quickly an untested complaint became a public conviction.
JPMorgan had already investigated the complaint. The bank reviewed phone records, reviewed emails, and interviewed members of the team. The accuser refused to participate in the investigation about his own complaint. The bank found no merit.
A colleague described the accuser to the Post as “socially awkward” but someone who “met the requirements” to stay employed.
It gets worse.
Before Monday
Before any of this became a lawsuit, there were negotiations over a payout in the millions, according to sources cited by the New York Post. They went nowhere.
So he sued.
His attorney, Daniel J. Kaiser, gave the Daily Mail a statement calling the allegations “horrendous and disturbing.” Within roughly 48 hours, Kaiser’s office pulled the filing for “corrections.” The Daily Mail had already published. Megyn Kelly had already read the excerpts on cable. The memes had already been made.
The Part That Doesn’t Get Retracted
POV: You just got hired at JPMorgan https://t.co/lIIzlHrYdD pic.twitter.com/IxDzz7v16P
— Investing Addict (@InvestingAddict) April 30, 2026
On Thursday, the New York Post named the accuser: Chirayu Rana, 35. Before JPMorgan, Rana had worked at Credit Suisse, the Carlyle Group, and Morgan Stanley. He left JPMorgan and is now a principal at Bregal Sagemount, a private equity firm. His résumé reads like a tour of American finance. None of those stops appear to have slowed him down.
He is doing fine.
Hajdini’s week looks different. Her full name is now permanently attached to the words “sex slave,” “Rohypnol,” and “racial abuse” in search results that will outlive any correction, any retraction, and any ruling a judge eventually makes. She did not post. She did not comment. She did not give an interview. She went to work.
The case is still active. The filing was, per IBTimes UK, “briefly withdrawn for technical corrections in late April before proceeding.” No hearing date has been scheduled. Both sides deny everything.
The filing was briefly pulled back. The headlines were not.
Hajdini is at her desk.