Cornell University has been hit by another report of rape on campus just days after a former student filed a civil lawsuit accusing seven fraternity brothers of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2024.

The latest allegation was reported to Cornell University Police by a third party on September 23 and is said to have taken place four days earlier inside Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall, a residence dorm on the school’s North Campus. 

A Cornell spokesperson told the Daily Mail that police interviewed the individual accused in the report and they insisted the encounter was consensual.

The university did not immediately answer follow-up questions about whether the investigation remains active.

However, Cornell’s online crime log currently lists the rape report as ‘pending.’ No further details were immediately available.

The Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office has been asked whether prosecutors have been informed of the new allegation or are considering criminal charges.

The report comes at a difficult moment for the Ivy League university, which is already facing mounting scrutiny over allegations that seven Chi Phi fraternity members drugged and raped a female student in October 2024.

The former student, identified only as Jane Doe, filed a civil lawsuit earlier this month detailing the alleged attack at the chapter’s fraternity house.

Cornell University has been hit by another rape allegation just days after a civil lawsuit was filed by a former female student, claiming she was ‘gang-raped’ at a fraternity home in 2024 

Doe alleged the attack took place at the Chi Phi house (above) late on October 19, 2024

Doe, who was 20 at the time, alleges in her complaint she was plied with alcohol, pressured to take ketamine and repeatedly sexually assaulted as she became increasingly incapacitated.

The lawsuit claims that during the alleged ordeal one fraternity member sent a message to Chi Phi’s active-members Snapchat group telling others there was ‘free p***y’ upstairs, referring to Doe.

More fraternity members then entered the room, the complaint alleges. Doe claims she was repeatedly assaulted until around 5.45am, when she lost consciousness.

No criminal charges were brought at the time. Prosecutors say Doe’s sworn account to Cornell University Police described the drug use and sexual activity as voluntary and consensual, leading them to conclude there was no legal basis for charges.

But her lawsuit, filed nearly two years later, presents a sharply different account, alleging she was already too intoxicated to consent and became increasingly incapacitated as the night went on.

Cornell separately pursued disciplinary proceedings against the accused students, which the university says resulted in suspensions and expulsions. While Doe’s lawsuit claims they were also allowed to ‘mitigate their conduct by submitting essays,’ Cornell said in a statement that no student received an essay assignment as their only punishment.

The case has since prompted widespread outrage and renewed scrutiny of how the allegations were handled by both Cornell and local authorities.

One of the men allegedly posted to the fraternity’s active-members Snapchat group saying that there was ‘free p***y’ upstairs, referring to Doe, according to the filing

District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said his office had received numerous calls, emails and voicemails about the case, with members of the public urging him to revisit the original decision.

Van Houten’s office announced on Monday that it had reopened the criminal investigation and a sex-crimes prosecutor had been assigned to prepare the case for presentation to a grand jury.

‘Seeking justice sometimes requires us to reconsider or reopen cases when we are provided with additional evidence… getting to the truth is the goal in this case,’ Van Houten said. 

Van Houten said his office did not conduct a parallel independent investigation in 2024, but instead reviewed Doe’s statement at the request of Cornell University Police to determine whether her allegations constituted a crime.

He added that a screenshot of the ‘free p***y’ Snapchat message chain shared in Doe’s lawsuit was never provided to his office.

Doe’s attorney Thomas Giuffra told the Daily Mail that he considers the Snapchat messages a critical piece of evidence that he claims was provided to Cornell in 2024.

Giuffra has also questioned how thorough the initial investigation was, claiming investigators carried out little meaningful follow-up after she first reported the allegations to Cornell PD.

An investigation by the local DA’s office led to no criminal charges being filed in the case at the time. The case was reopened over the weekend following mounting public pressure

In a statement shared Monday, Cornell said it supports the DA’s decision to revisit Doe’s allegations.

The university said it separately conducted a months-long Title IX investigation in which the complainant and accused students were able to testify and present evidence before a panel of faculty and staff.

‘Any suggestion that the university did not impose consequential punishments for those involved is false,’ a spokesperson for Cornell said.

‘A continuation of the false narrative that there were minimal consequences in this case is irresponsible, will make survivors feel less safe and supported, and will perpetuate the underreporting of sexual assault.’

The school added that Chi Phi’s Xi chapter has remained barred from campus since 2024.

Doe has said the fallout from the alleged attack continues to dominate her life.

In a sworn statement filed with her lawsuit, she described what happened as ‘devastating and humiliating’ and said she stopped attending Cornell because of the alleged assault.

Giuffra told the Daily Mail last week that she has since dropped out of college altogether and continues to struggle with the trauma.

Doe said in her sworn statement that she has suffered anxiety, depression and sleepless nights.

‘She is basically stalled, and her life is devoted to dealing with the trauma,’ Giuffra said. ‘It’s like a constant, constant reminder.’

In a statement shared Monday, Cornell said it supports the DA’s decision to revisit Doe’s allegations 

Giuffra described Doe as a young woman from a small town who had achieved something unusual for where she grew up by making it to an Ivy League university, only to see that life derailed after the alleged attack.

‘She’s not some rich kid who went to private schools and all that,’ he said. ‘She was somebody who came from part of the country where not a lot of people were going to Ivy League schools, and she made that accomplishment – and now she’s dropped out of Cornell.

‘Those boys will go on and live their lives just fine, whereas my client is not going to have that benefit.’

Chi Phi’s national office said over the weekend that the allegations were ‘deeply concerning’ and that anyone reporting sexual violence deserves to be treated with ‘compassion, dignity and respect.’

The fraternity said sexual violence was ‘fundamentally incompatible’ with its values and its ‘Building Better Men’ mission, adding that it could not address the specific allegations while litigation is pending but was taking the case seriously.

All seven defendants have now been served with the lawsuit, court records show. The Daily Mail has contacted each of them for comment.

Jeremy Saland, an attorney for one of the accused, denied Doe’s allegations in their entirety and said he welcomed the DA’s decision to reinvestigate the claims.

‘We are confident an honest examination will exonerate him once again,’ Saland said.