Jane Doe's texts to 'Cornell 7' frat boy after alleged rape are revealed: 'My memory is super clouded... but none of it was illegal'

Jane Doe texted one of the 'Cornell 7' fraternity brothers she has accused of a horrific gang rape, saying her memory was clouded but 'none of the sexual stuff was illegal' and claimed 'our body our choice.'

Texts obtained by TMZ showed that Doe and one of the accused Chi Phi students, Jonathan Newell, messaged one day after the alleged assault.

Newell reached out to Doe on October 21, 2024, and wrote: 'I just wanted to apologize for how things went down the other night. My memory is kinda fuzzy abt [sic] a lot of it.' 

He called her an 'amazing person' and said he hoped she was not 'catching as much heat from this' as the fraternity brothers were.

Doe brushed off concerns from other people about their 'gangbang' and said they should not feel ashamed. 

'So anything anyone has to say about the gamgbang [sic] is out of their jurisdiction. I don't think we should feel any shame for the part. our body our choice,' she allegedly wrote.

Newell said that both he and another accused fraternity brother, Matthew Ingalls, felt terrible for being too intoxicated to 'shut it down and kick people out before it got way out of hand.' 

Doe responded: 'Aw jonathan i really appreciate this text. my memories are super clouded too. i think we were all way to f**king drunk and high.  

The woman, identified only as Jane Doe, filed a civil lawsuit last month, claiming she was coerced into taking drugs and sexually assaulted by seven members of Cornell University's Chi Phi fraternity at an off-campus house on October 20, 2024

One day after the alleged rape, Jane Doe texted Jonathan Newell that her memory was clouded but 'none of the sexual stuff was illegal' and claimed 'our body our choice'

'At the end of the day non [sic] of the sexual stuff was illegal and honestly I really liked being w u and matt.'

She also reminded Newell how she snorted ketamine off of him the night of October 19, 'and I honestly think that was one of the most insane/jaw dropping moments of the night.'

When Newell then responds that he has 'no memory of that last part,' Jane Doe said it was 'insane, truly.' 

But in another message two weeks later, on November 3, Jane Doe claimed that the ketamine use made her feel like a prostitute and a rape victim.

'Let's be clear that 90% of what happened that night was not consensual,' she declared in the text messages.

'I was given more key [sic] than I can remember, and I know that I told u I felt uncomfortable and I didn't know anyone in the room.'

Newell then replied the following day, reiterating that he had no recollection about some of the things that happened that night.

'I don't remember any of this happening, which is why I've been feeling so terrible abt the whole situation,' he claimed.

'Had I been less f***ed up and even somewhat aware of the situation and how out of hand it got, I would've shut it down the second guys started walking in the room,' Newell then insisted. 

Newell said that both he and another accused fraternity brother, Matthew Ingalls (pictured), felt terrible for being too intoxicated to 'shut it down and kick people out before it got way out of hand'

When approached by the Daily Mail about the new text messages, Jane Doe's attorney, Thomas Giuffra said his response is the same it was as when other text messages first came to light.

He said at the time that his client was 'in denial and traumatized' in the days following the alleged assault and was trying to piece together what had happened.

Eventually, Giuffra said, she ‘came to the realization that [she] had been gang raped.’ 

In her bombshell civil lawsuit, the woman, identified only as Jane Doe, claimed she was coerced into taking drugs and sexually assaulted by seven members of the fraternity two years ago.

She reported the alleged rape three weeks after the incident, but prosecutors determined there was 'insufficient evidence' to bring criminal sexual assault charges, and the seven men have denied the accusations against them. 

Cornell launched a Title IX investigation into the students in 2025, and the university shut down the fraternity.

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, which included an image of the purported chat

Newell and Ingalls were subsequently expelled from Cornell by a Title IX investigation.

The Daily Mail revealed this week that Newell has also since been kicked out of Nova Southeastern University in Florida. 

Internal Cornell paperwork detailed by The New York Times on Thursday found that Newell was meant to work the night of her alleged attack as a sober safety monitor.

Newell was meant to be a 'trained event monitor' at the party who would remain sober and wear distinctive clothing, so their fellow partygoers could easily identify them in the event of an emergency. 

Although Newell was listed as one of the sober monitors, the woman alleged in the civil lawsuit last month that he and his fraternity brothers plied her with drugs and alcohol before the alleged rape.

Jane Doe's lawsuit sparked national outrage over how authorities handled the case

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Jane Doe's civil lawsuit alleged that she was sexually assaulted over a brutal seven-hour ordeal, during which time Newell also sent a Snapchat message to his fraternity inviting them to join.

Newell denied the allegations and told investigators that he had consensual sexual activity with Jane Doe on the night, and the new records show he claimed not to remember sending the Snapchat message.

Doe's lawsuit sparked national outrage over how authorities handled the case, and New York Attorney General Letitia James has since opened an 'active criminal investigation' into the allegations.

Cornell has hired Sally Yates, a former Obama-appointed justice official who was infamously fired by President Donald Trump, to investigate its response to gang rape allegations.