{"id":218485,"date":"2026-05-03T21:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/218485\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T21:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:12:08","slug":"ex-jpmorgan-banker-spotted-in-nyc-street-fashion-vid-before-bizarre-sex-harass-claims-as-his-dad-addresses-scandalous-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/218485\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-JPMorgan banker spotted in NYC street-fashion vid before bizarre sex-harass claims \u2014 as his dad addresses scandalous lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The former JPMorgan banker accused of fabricating <\/a>outrageous sex-harassment claims against a female executive popped up on a fashion TikTokker\u2019s feed for his style in 2024, The Post revealed Sunday \u2014 as his father defended him in his ugly court case<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chirayu Rana, 35, was randomly captured on camera while walking the streets of Midtown Manhattan in May 2024 by Michaela Bublikova, a k a \u201cSuittok girl.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bublikova was filming a street-style series about men\u2019s fashion for her TikTok page at the time.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, Chirayu Rana was filmed by a men\u2019s fashion TikTokker as he walked the streets of Midtown Manhattan. TikTok\/@dudesinsuitsnyc<\/p>\n

She told The Post on Sunday that although she didn\u2019t interact with Rana, she felt his sartorial choices fit in well with her theme.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I saw him, I thought that he was a good example of the fashion and style that @dudesinsuitsnyc is all about,\u201d she said of the resurfaced clip that has since gone viral.<\/p>\n

In the video, Rana is standing in a crosswalk waiting for a pair of bicyclists to pass before crossing East 54th Street at Park Avenue, sporting a dark-colored suit with no tie and black dress shoes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI later posted the clip, and it recently resurfaced and went viral,\u2019\u2019 Bublikova said.<\/p>\n

Chirayu Rana (R) is pictured with his mother Baruna Rana (C) and father Chaitanya Rana, who called his son a \u201cgood guy.\u201d Facebook\/Baruna Rana<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past few days, some of my viewers have been pointing out his identity, which is why I referenced it again in a follow-up TikTok.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Rana\u2019s father meanwhile spoke to The Post on Sunday at the family\u2019s $1.75 million dollar, five-bedroom home in the affluent Virginia suburb of Vienna about 16 miles outside Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

His father said he \u201cdidn\u2019t know anything\u201d about what was happening and said he hasn\u2019t spoken to his son for a few days \u2014 but that he supports him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know anything about it. He didn\u2019t talk with us or anything,\u201d the dad said of the controversy.<\/p>\n

Rana has been accused of filing a salacious lawsuit against a JPMorgan executive that\u2019s laden with bogus claims. Sage Mount<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s my son. He\u2019s a good guy,\u201d the older man added before closing the front door.<\/p>\n

Details about Rana\u2019s past as a high-school and collegiate soccer player also surfaced after his now-retracted lawsuit against JP exec Lorna Hajdini, 37, in which he accused her of drugging him and keeping him as a \u201csex slave,\u201d garnered national attention.<\/p>\n

Hajdini vehemently denied the allegations, and an internal JPMorgan probe, which reviewed emails, phone records, and witness statements, found \u201cno evidence\u201d to support the claims made by \u201cJohn Doe,\u201d according to a bank rep.<\/p>\n

In addition to being a member of the McKean Football Club state cup championship team in 2009, Rana lettered twice at Bishop Denis J. O\u2019Connell High School in Arlington, Va., and saw action in nine matches for nearby Marymount University as a freshman.<\/p>\n

During his sophomore and junior years, Rana played for the Rutgers-Newark Scarlett Knights, making an appearance in just a handful of games where he notched two assists in total.<\/p>\n

After graduating from Rutgers, he logged stints at Wall Street finance shops including Houlihan Lokey, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley and the Carlyle Group before joining JPMorgan\u2019s leveraged finance team in spring 2024.<\/p>\n

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By May 2025, the relationship soured, with Rana filing an internal complaint at JPMorgan alleging race- and gender-based harassment and retaliation.<\/p>\n

He joined Bregal Sagemount in October but abruptly left<\/a> the company April 2, just weeks before he filed the bombshell sexual harassment lawsuit against Hajdini.<\/p>\n

He could not be reached for comment by The Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former JPMorgan banker accused of fabricating outrageous sex-harassment claims against a female executive popped up on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1500,3100,29934,9,56,63,65,64,3644,9740,58,3417],"class_list":["post-218485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-jpmorgan-chase","tag-lawsuit","tag-mens-fashion","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-sexual-harassment","tag-tiktok","tag-us-news","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}