Cornell 7 fraternity member Matthew Ingalls believed to have gone to Dubai, outlets report

Right · 1The Daily Mail reported on 7 October that Matthew Ingalls, one of the 'Cornell 7' fraternity members accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting a female former Cornell student, is believed to have retreated to Dubai. 1 Right · 1The basis given is a neighbor of Ingalls, who told the Daily Mail they believe Ingalls has returned to the Middle East; the claim is not independently confirmed in the coverage. 1 Right · 1On 10 October the New York Post, citing the Daily Mail, said Ingalls 'reportedly fled to Dubai' after the lawsuit was filed last month, and that Ingalls had told friends of a gap year in Thailand after the expulsion. 2

Right · 2Both outlets say Ingalls, 21, whose full name is Umar Matthew Ingalls, grew up between the Middle East and the US and attended an elite private school in Dubai's Emirates Hills, dubbed the 'Beverly Hills of Dubai'; the Post names it as Dubai International Academy and says it charges about $21,000 a year. 1 2 Right · 2Ingalls' father, Matthew Burtchaell Ingalls, is a Yale-educated professor at the American University in Dubai, where the Post says the father chairs the Department of Middle Eastern Studies; the Daily Mail said the father did not respond to requests for comment, and the Post said its questions went unanswered. 1 2 Right · 1The Post reports that the father's photo and contact details were removed from the university's website this week, and quotes a 2020 school magazine article in which Ingalls said being American in the UAE was associated with Donald Trump; the Post uses this to describe Ingalls as a 'US hater', a characterisation that is the outlet's own. 2

Right · 1The lawsuit, filed in September by a plaintiff identified as Jane Doe, is 101 pages and accuses seven Chi Phi members of drugging Doe with ketamine and gang-raping Doe at the fraternity house on 19 October 2024; the Mail says Doe was 20. 1 Right · 2According to the Daily Mail, citing New York Times-reviewed discipline summaries, Cornell found Ingalls and Jonathan Newell responsible for sexual assault and expelled them after a Title IX investigation in May 2025, and permanently banned Chi Phi from campus; the Post places the expulsions in 2024. 1 2 Right · 2Recently surfaced material complicates the account: audio of a call purportedly between Ingalls and Doe, and texts in which Doe wrote 'Non[e] of the sexual stuff was illegal' and later that 'everyone knows' and that Doe's reputation was destroyed. 1 2

Right · 2Records obtained by ABC News indicate Ingalls told campus police of being too intoxicated from alcohol and ketamine to consent and claimed that Doe sexually assaulted Ingalls; the Post says Ingalls claimed to have been 'sodomized'. 1 2 Right · 2The Post says all seven Chi Phi members have denied raping Doe and none has been charged with a crime; the Daily Mail says Ingalls has not publicly commented and lawyers for several of the other men deny wrongdoing. 2 1