Lorna Hajdini, the banker accused of sexual abuse by her former JPMorgan colleague, has fired back with a lawsuit of her own, claiming that Chirayu Rana fabricated his allegations against her, including that she made him her “sex slave.”
In a suit filed in New York State Supreme Court on Tuesday, Hajdini accused Rana of defaming her when he claimed last month that shortly after he joined her team at the bank, she demanded sex from him, threatened his job, taunted him with sexually explicit and racist comments, and drugged him. In Rana’s suit against Hajdini, he claimed she told him, “If you don’t fuck me soon, I’m going to ruin you … Never forget, I fucking own you. If you don’t fuck my brains out tonight, I’m going to sabotage your promotion.” Hajdini vehemently denied the allegations, with her lawyers saying, “She never dated this individual, never had a sexual or romantic encounter with him of any kind and never gave him any drugs.” JPMorgan, which is also named in the lawsuit, has said the bank internally investigated the allegations and believes they “have no merit.”
In her countersuit, Hajdini’s attorneys called Rana’s allegations “entirely false, malicious, and fabricated, and … concocted for the improper purpose of personal enrichment at the expense of defendants and others.” They claimed the former JPMorgan banker’s goal was to “destroy her reputation for leverage to extort millions of dollars,” calling the original complaint “the culmination of a months-long campaign to smear Ms. Hajdini in the workplace, to third parties, the press, and now this court with fabricated assertions.”
