Viva Rana’s father Chaitanya Rana has reacted to his son’s controversy and told the New York Post that he was not aware of the sexual assault case that Viva had brought against JPMorgan executive Lorna Hajdini. But more interestingly, the post revealed that Viva had claimed in mid-December 2024 that her father died and she took leave from work to be with her family. While the post cited sources for this information, they claimed that they reached out to Viva’s family and learned that his father is alive and well. He said that Chirayu did not tell him anything about the matter.“I don’t know anything about it. They didn’t talk to us,” Chaitanya Rana told The Post. “He’s my son. He’s a good boy.”The report described Chirayu as a liar and said that she was allowed to work remotely after she told her superiors that her father was seriously ill. He eliminated a series of holiday allowances between the beginning of March and the end of May last year, when an initial draft complaint was sent to the bank’s legal team, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.A source with direct knowledge of its contents said it read: “In or around November 2024, Plaintiff’s father passed away, and he moved to his parents’ home in Virginia.” “The company thought he was doing something,” one source said. “You could tell he was trying to game the system.”Attorney Greg Chiarello prepared the document, dated May 2024, which also claimed that Rana’s mother, Baruna, was ill.At the end of 2025, Viva left JPMorgan and joined investment firm Bregel Sagemount and then left this job in April 2, 2026. In late April, 2026 he filed a civil lawsuit in New York County Supreme Court under the pseudonym “John Doe”, accusing 37-year-old Executive Director Lorna Hajdini of drugging him with Rohypnol and Viagra, forcing him to perform humiliating sexual acts, and threatening his career if he refused to do so.JPMorgan denied his claims and said Viva never reported Hajdini.
