One of the 'Cornell 7' fraternity brothers hit with explosive sexual assault allegations stemming from an alleged gang rape at the Ivy League school is believed to have retreated to Dubai, the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal.
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Umar Matthew Ingalls won a coveted place at Cornell University in 2023, but his promising future unraveled after a female former student accused him and six other men of sexually assaulting her during a fraternity party in October 2024.
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Ingalls, 21, was later expelled from Cornell following an internal university investigation.
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One of Ingalls' neighbors told the Daily Mail they believe he has returned to the Middle East, where he enjoyed a privileged upbringing and attended an elite private school in Emirates Hills, the wealthy enclave often dubbed the 'Beverly Hills of Dubai.'
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The allegations against Ingalls and his Chi Phi fraternity brothers exploded into the public sphere last month when a female former Cornell student, identified in court papers only as Jane Doe, filed a civil lawsuit accusing the men of drugging her with ketamine and gang raping her inside their fraternity house on the night of October 19, 2024.
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Newly surfaced audio of a phone call purportedly between Ingalls and Doe in the days after the alleged incident captures him describing how they first ended up in a threesome and telling her that she had told him she was sober that night.
But records obtained by ABC News indicate Ingalls later told campus police that he was himself too intoxicated from alcohol and ketamine to consent
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According to those records, Ingalls claimed Doe had actually sexually assaulted him that night, presenting a dramatically different account from the allegations Doe has made.
Matthew Ingalls, one of the Cornell frat brothers expelled from the Ivy League school over explosive sexual assault allegations, was on the rugby team and joined Chi Phi, one of America's oldest fraternities, after enrolling at the school
A deleted LinkedIn profile bearing Ingalls' name and photograph previously listed him as working for Data Annotation, an AI firm.
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previously told TMZ it blocked Ingalls from its platform in May 2024
Ingalls has not publicly commented since the civil suit surfaced.
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Lawyers representing several of the other men have denied any wrongdoing.
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The Daily Mail has now uncovered new details and photographs charting Ingalls' privileged upbringing, from his years at one of Dubai's top private schools to his life between the Middle East and New England.
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Ingalls appears to have spent his early childhood living in Connecticut and Washington, according to public property records, before moving with his family to the United Arab Emirates around 2016.
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His Yale-educated father is a leading educator at the American University in Dubai.
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He has not responded to the Daily Mail's requests for comment.
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His mother works as an Arabic and English language tutor and wellness coach.
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Ingalls and his younger brother would visit their paternal grandparents, who lived between Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and Fort Myers, Florida, until their recent deaths.
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Yearbook photographs unearthed by the Daily Mail show Ingalls attended an elite private school in Emirates Hills, the wealthy Dubai enclave often dubbed the 'Beverly Hills of Dubai.'
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The school, which caters to some of Dubai's wealthiest families, regularly sends graduates to leading universities around the world, including the Ivy League.
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By 2023, Ingalls had secured multiple college offers, including from Cornell, Tufts and the University of Alabama, according to a since-deleted Instagram post apparently published by an account linked to his school.
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Footage obtained by ABC News allegedly shows the frat-house bedroom where Jane Doe claims she was assaulted by seven Chi Phi fraternity brothers
The footage shows trash littered around the room where Doe alleges she was assaulted.
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The clip also shows a metal bedframe without a mattress and a platform bed inside the bedroom
One of Ingalls' neighbors told the Daily Mail they believe he has returned to the Middle East, where he enjoyed a privileged upbringing and attended an elite private school in Emirates Hills, the wealthy enclave often dubbed the 'Beverly Hills of Dubai'
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He ultimately opted to study math and economics at Cornell, in Ithaca, New York, and quickly immersed himself in campus life.
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Ingalls joined Chi Phi, one of America's oldest fraternities, and played on the rugby team.
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Archived team rosters show he played alongside two of the other defendants named in the lawsuit, Winston Lee and Scott Kretzschmar.
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Cornell Rugby said it permanently removed several players involved in the 2024 alleged attack, in a statement first reported by the Cornell Sun, the campus newspaper.
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Ingalls' promising collegiate future would soon start to unravel.
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In her 101-page lawsuit, Doe alleges Ingalls, whom she considered a friend, lured her to the frat house when she was already heavily intoxicated from a night of drinking in town.
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Ingalls allegedly propositioned Doe, then 20, for a threesome with him and frat brother, Jonathan Newell, when she says she was already too drunk to consent.
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Despite this, she claims they pressured her to snort Ketamine with them and plied her with marijuana and high-proof rum.
Ingalls then ‘forced’ oral sex on Doe while Newell allegedly raped her and repeatedly slapped her buttocks hard enough to leave bruising, her lawsuit alleges.
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Ingalls left the room for a nap as a third frat member, Gillio Lopes, entered and allegedly began kissing Doe.
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He and Newell then allegedly sexually assaulted her, the filing claims.
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At around 1.42am, Newell allegedly sent a vile message to the fraternity's Snapchat group saying there was 'free p***y' upstairs, a screenshot included with the complaint shows.
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The lawsuit accuses Newell of encouraging other members of Chi Phi to join what it describes as the 'gang rape' of Doe.
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Ingalls returned to the room, joined by several other frat members, including Winston Lee, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar.
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Ingalls is among the seven Ivy League fraternity brothers accused of being involved in the gang rape of a woman only identified as Jane Doe.
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In a screenshot of Snapchat messages exchanged between the frat boys and filed with the complaint, Ingalls allegedly said 'I f***ing love chi phi' and 'Like you can walk in and whip it out'
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One man involved in the Snapchat group had allegedly asked 'Shop still open?' shortly after a photograph of Jane Doe was shared amongst them, according to a screenshot filed with the complaint
The lawsuit claims all seven men snorted Ketamine off Doe’s naked body, before five of them eventually left the room.
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Ingalls and Lee allegedly coerced Doe into snorting more Ketamine, rendering her 'completely incapacitated,' before they allegedly raped her, the lawsuit claims.
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The alleged attack ended at 5.45am, when Doe lost consciousness, the filing states.
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In a sworn statement, Doe said the alleged ordeal left her so traumatized she was forced to quit Cornell.
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Doe reported her claims to Cornell University Police on November 8, initially telling investigators, 'I can say with 100 percent confidence I was raped,' according to a reported transcript of her interview.
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