“It’ll be funny in a couple of months”: Jane Doe texted with one of the men she later accused of assault

October 13, 2026 / 1:58 PM EDT / CBS News

It was a Monday evening around dinner time when a text popped up on Jane Doe's cellphone on Oct. 21, 2024, less than 48 hours after a night of excessive drinking, drug use and group sex at the Chi Phi fraternity house on the Cornell University campus. Over 10 days of intermittent texting, in messages obtained by CBS News, Doe told him to not feel shame and asked him to look for earrings she thought she lost that night.

Cornell's Title IX investigation would later find the man responsible for sexual assault and he was expelled, according to her lawyer and The New York Times.

The two exchanged multiple friendly-sounding texts over three days from Oct 21-24, and then, after a week of silence, Jane Doe texted again pressing him to look for her lost earrings. Jane Doe's lawyer, Thomas Giuffra, told CBS News her messages reflected "classic symptoms of delayed recognition," calling it "a textbook response to sexual assault."

The man is named in her civil lawsuit but has not been charged with a crime. CBS News is identifying him here and in other coverage as MALE 2, of…

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