A former JP Morgan Chase banker who sued his female boss after claiming she turned him into her office sex slave turned down a $1 million settlement, reports say. 

Chirayu Rana, 35, accused his former boss Lorna Hajdini, 37, in a bombshell lawsuit of using her power to sexually abuse him, alleging she drugged him and subjected him to racial abuse in her advances. 

Hajdini denies the allegations and an internal investigation by JP Morgan Chase (JPMC) found no evidence of wrongdoing on her part. 

But according to sources speaking with the Wall Street Journal, America's biggest bank offered Rana $1 million to settle the lawsuit, equivalent to two years of his earnings.  He instead demanded $11.7 million to settle the case, sources told the Journal. 

Insiders reportedly said the bank hoped the settlement would have avoided the media circus that now surrounds the case, with Rana's salacious lawsuit the talk of much of the internet since the Daily Mail broke the story last week. 

In a statement to the Journal, JP Morgan said: 'We did try to reach an agreement to avoid the time and expense of litigation and to support an employee who was being threatened with the very reputational harm now unfolding. 

'We continue to believe these allegations have no merit and new information raised as a result of the public filing only reinforces that conclusion.' 

The Daily Mail has contacted the bank for further comment. 

News of the alleged settlement offer came after Rana re-filed his lawsuit on Monday with updated claims, including alleging that Hajdini - an executive director in JPMC’s Leveraged Finance division - tried to coerce him into a threesome and threatened his career if he did not comply. 

Hajdini, 37, an executive director in JPMC’s Leveraged Finance division, was accused in the filing of coercing Rana into ‘non-consensual and humiliating sex acts’ over several months, despite his pleas for her to stop.

Rana claims his former boss drugged him with the date rape drug Rohypnol as well as Viagra and, during one encounter, rebuked him when he cried as she performed a sex act on him against his will.

He said in the court filings that Hajdini, whom he claims also rained racist abuse down on him, allegedly threatened to ruin his career when he refused her advances – which included once allegedly turning up at his apartment and demanding sex.

The lawsuit also accuses JPMC of enabling the alleged abuse and retaliating against the banker after he reported it, claiming the firm placed him on involuntary leave, destroyed his reputation and allowed threats against him to continue while Hajdini and others went unpunished. 

A spokesman for JPMC said a thorough internal investigation found no evidence to support Rana's accusations. 'Following an investigation, we don’t believe there’s any merit to these claims,' said the representative. 'While numerous employees cooperated with the investigation, the complainant refused to participate and has declined to provide facts that would be central to support his allegations.'

According to Rana's complaint, Hajdini’s alleged abuse started almost immediately after the pair began working together in the spring of 2024.

Rana said he joined as a Senior VP and Director in March 2024, and Hajdini was appointed to lead the team the following month. 

In early May 2024, Rana alleges Hajdini dropped her pen on the floor next to his desk and, while bending to pick it up, rubbed his leg and squeezed his calf.

He claims she then remarked, ‘Oh, you did play basketball in college? … I love basketball players… they get me so wet.’

From there, Rana alleges the advances grew more explicit and frequent.

Later that May, Rana said in the complaint that Hajdini invited him out for drinks, but he declined. In response, she is alleged to have said: ‘If you don’t f**k me soon, I’m going to ruin you… never forget, I f**king own you.’

Twice, Rana claims that Hajdini propositioned him for oral sex in the office, on one occasion asking: ‘Birthday BJ for the brown boy? My little brown boy.’

While Rana claims he continued to resist her advances, Hajdini allegedly threatened professional retribution, telling him if he wanted to be promoted to executive director, he would need to start ‘pleasing’ her, according to the lawsuit.

‘You’re gonna need to earn it, my little Arab boy toy,’ Rana alleges she told him during a work social event at her private members club. During the same event, he claims she repeatedly groped his groin under the table and spat in her hands, running them over his neck and head.

Eventually, Rana claims the alleged harassment escalated into sexual assault, which Hajdini denies. 

After Rana initially filed his lawsuit last week, the filing was taken off the court docket before his attorneys re-filed the action with updated allegations, including two unnamed witnesses who claimed they saw Rana and the executive together. 

In a statement issued through her lawyers, Hajdini has vehemently denied any wrongdoing. 

She never engaged in any inappropriate conduct with this individual of any kind and has never even been to the location where the alleged sexual assault supposedly took place,’ said her lawyer. 

In the days since Rana's lawsuit circulated social media, several JP Morgan colleagues have rushed to Hajdini's defense. 

‘He has tarnished her with a complete fabrication,’ said one. 

However, the alleged victim is sticking to his guns. Rana’s lawyer insists his client was a victim of ‘horrific sexual abuse’ and therefore reserved the right to file his allegations anonymously.

‘As to Ms Hajdini’s predictable denials, I look forward to discovery and, in particular, her deposition,’ said his lawyer, Daniel Kaiser. ‘The abuse occurred and we will prove it.’

He told the Daily Mail that the lawsuit was removed from court records last Thursday because it hadn’t been submitted with the proper papers and was returned to his office to be amended.

On Monday, it was refiled along with two sworn witness statements. The names of the witnesses, along with Rana’s, have been redacted – for their own protection, says Rana – although they have been revealed to the parties in the case.

One alleged witness said in their statement that they were staying at an apartment with Rana in September 2024 when they were woken in the night by a woman who was ‘clearly intoxicated and speaking loudly’. Rana later identified the woman as Ms Hajdini, according to the statement.

‘A short while later, I was awoken by Ms Hajdini, who was completely naked,’ the witness wrote. ‘Ms Hajdini sat on the couch and lit a cigarette. She then asked me to come to the bedroom with her and “join them”. I told her no. She said, “Come join, come join”. I again told her no.’

The witness said Ms Hajdini then told them, ‘You know, I own [Rana], so you’d better come join.’

They again refused, and Ms Hajdini returned to the bedroom and closed the door, according to the filing.

From inside, the witness said they heard arguing, with Rana ‘loudly pleading’ with Ms Hajdini ‘to stop, and to leave’.

‘It became quiet. Then, sometime later, [Ms Hajdini] came out of the bedroom and left the apartment,’ the witness said in the filing.

The second alleged witness said Rana had told him in mid-2024 that a woman in the office was ‘making his life hell’ and that he later saw Ms Hajdini kissing Rana’s neck and grabbing him and that he appeared uncomfortable.

Additional new exhibits include an affidavit in which Rana says he was diagnosed with PTSD in October 2025, which he attributes to the alleged assaults, plus a letter from his counsellor confirming he had been treated for PTSD. 

The Daily Mail has contacted Kaiser for comment on reports that his client turned down a $1 million settlement.