A fraternity brother from Cornell University, Winston Lee, has been implicated in a gang-rape case involving a student. In a recently uncovered phone call, he expressed regret over the backlash faced by the alleged victim.
Lee, one of seven members from the Chi Phi fraternity mentioned in a lawsuit filed last month, reportedly used ketamine inappropriately during the encounter with the Jane Doe who has brought the allegations forward.
During a call around three weeks post-incident in October 2024, he initially sounded remorseful.
“I’m really sorry about all like the backlash you’re getting from this,” Lee reportedly said on November 7, 2024, in a recording acquired by ABC News.
The victim told him she “was completely and totally intoxicated and then given multiple sedatives,” and that “upwards of eight to 10 men” entered the room at the fraternity house.
“This is classified as a gang rape,” she asserted, which seemed to put Lee on the defensive.
“What’s the purpose for why you decided to call me?” he queried, sounding a bit confrontational.
On the night of the incident, Lee had participated in a fraternity Snapchat group chat where another member, Jonathan Newell, allegedly mentioned that there was “free p—y” in a room.
However, Lee claimed he had no idea about the situation when he entered the room.
“There was nothing to say that … anything was happening in that room or anything,” he stated during the call.
The same day she reached out to Lee, Doe also contacted Matthew Ingalls, another brother implicated in her lawsuit.
The next day, November 8, she reported the rape to the Cornell campus police.
Lee received a two-year suspension from the university, but neither he nor the other six fraternity brothers faced any criminal charges.
Two students, Ingalls and Newell, were expelled as a result of the incident.
No information on legal representation for Lee was available at the time of the report.
