JPMorgan Says Former Banker at Center of Sex Slave Suit Scripted His Sister’s Testimony Word for Word

A former JPMorgan banker accused his boss of turning him into her sex slave.

Now the bank says the whole case was invented from the start.

A new filing claims he even told his own sister what to say under oath.

The Kiss and the Nickname His Sister Now Says Never Happened

Chirayu Rana worked on JPMorgan's leveraged finance team under executive director Lorna Hajdini starting in 2024.

In April 2026, he sued Hajdini and the bank, accusing her of drugging him, hurling racial slurs at him, and using her authority over his pay and assignments to coerce him into what his filings call acting as her sex slave.

An early account from Rana's camp said his sister, Chandani, watched Hajdini kiss her brother on the cheek while telling him, "I own you, Brownie."

JPMorgan's attorneys say that scene never happened.

A new filing says Chandani was nowhere near the events she once described in detail, and that her brother scripted her account in advance, including notes she carried into the meeting with his lawyer.

Hajdini and JPMorgan have denied the underlying assault allegations from the very beginning.

Three Law Firms Have Already Tried to Drop This Case

Rana has burned through legal representation at a pace that is hard to ignore.

Daniel Kaiser tried to exit the case back in May.

Jon Norinsberg withdrew in mid-October, citing "irreconcilable differences" with his client.

A third firm, the Sheharyar Ali Law Group, signed on and then withdrew barely a day later, telling the court only that "underlying facts and circumstances of this litigation" had surfaced, without saying what they were.

JPMorgan's new filing asks the judge to impose "the most serious sanction available" and dismiss the case outright, accusing Rana of pushing both his sister and a friend, Allan Flott, to offer false sworn testimony on his behalf.

Hajdini has countersued Rana for defamation.

Crystal Mangum Admitted Her Duke Lacrosse Rape Claim Was a Lie

Wall Street is not the first place a single recanted witness has unraveled a years long sexual assault narrative.

Crystal Mangum accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006, a story that ended their season, wrecked their reputations, and got prosecutor Mike Nifong disbarred for the misconduct he committed chasing it.

She finally admitted on a podcast recorded at the North Carolina prison where she is serving time for an unrelated murder that she testified falsely against them.

The charges had been dropped in 2007, years before she admitted it herself, because the case against the players fell apart under scrutiny.

The lesson from Durham is not that every accusation is false.

It is that a claim can survive on reputation and momentum alone long after the facts underneath it have already collapsed, and a family member's sworn recantation is exactly the kind of fact that ends that momentum.

JPMorgan Offered Him a Million Dollars and Rana Turned It Down

Within weeks of Rana's May 2025 complaint, JPMorgan had already stripped his building access, cut his paycheck, and put him on leave with no return date in sight.

By March 2026, JPMorgan had put roughly a million dollars on the table to make the case go away.

Rana said no, holding out for something closer to twelve million.

A state judge tossed his original complaint in mid-July specifically to clear the way for additional claims, and Rana came back ten days later with an 82 page federal complaint that named new JPMorgan employees and tacked on a new defamation count against the bank.

A Sworn Recantation Is Not a Detail JPMorgan Can Walk Back

Line up the facts in order: a rejected six figure settlement offer, a demand nearly twelve times larger, three separate law firms walking away from the case within five months, and now a sister who says under oath that she was never there for the moment she once described in vivid detail.

That is not what a strong, truthful claim looks like.

Judges who find a litigant coached a witness can dismiss a case outright and refer the conduct for possible perjury charges, which is exactly the sanction JPMorgan is now asking for.

A decade of demanding that Americans believe every accuser on instinct built almost no room for what happens when the accusation turns out to be manufactured, and the real victims are the ones whose claims get lumped in with the fake ones.

Hajdini still has to prove her defamation case, and Rana is entitled to his day in court.

But a sister recanting under oath is not a wash, and JPMorgan's filing reads like a bank that is done pretending otherwise.

Sources:

• Jessica Mathews, "JPMorgan Asks Judge to Dismiss Ex-Banker's Sex Slave Suit as His Sister Recants," Fortune, October 27, 2026.
• TMZ Staff, "JPMorgan Claims Ex-Banker Convinced Sister to Lie on His Behalf in Sex Slave Case," TMZ, October 27, 2026.
• International Business Times UK, "Go Back Brownie: Ex-JPMorgan Banker Behind Sex Slave Lawsuit Files New Racism Case," IBTimes UK, 2026.
• Bloomberg Law, "JPMorgan Ex-Exec Hits Bank With Bias, Sex, Retaliation Lawsuit," Bloomberg Law, April 2026.
• ABC11, "Crystal Mangum Says She Falsely Accused Duke Lacrosse Players of Rape in 2006, Asks for Forgiveness," ABC11, December 13, 2024.