Banking giant JPMorgan has been home to many of Wall Street’s biggest scandals over the past 20 years, which include but are absolutely not limited to: its decision to keep to itself its suspicions about what Bernie Madoff was doing; its “whale”-size $6 billion trading loss; its longtime financial enabling of Jeffrey Epstein; those toxic mortgage-backed securities it sold to investors (hello, $13 billion settlement); its “robo-signing” of foreclosure notices; its precious-metals spoofing scam; and the “Sons and Daughters” hiring program that prosecutors deemed “nothing more than bribery by another name.”

Again, this list is not comprehensive and doesn’t even include the time CEO Jamie Dimon declared during a town hall, “I don’t care how many people sign that fucking petition” for a hybrid working model, later adding, “And don’t give me this shit that work-from-home Friday works. I call a lot of people on Fridays, and there’s not a goddamn person you can get a hold of.”

Which is all to say the bank is familiar with controversy and unflattering press. Yet JPMorgan has never grappled with a former employee accusing a high-ranking female executive of making him her “sex slave,” a scandal that has provided fodder for viral memes and AI fakes while driving New York Post headlines and the rumor mill at 270 Park Avenue. According to The Wall Street Journal, from the moment the allegations went public, it “seemed like everyone” was talking about 35-year-old banker Chirayu Rana. At the bank’s headquarters, teams “swapped memes and traded stories of working with him,” while colleagues........

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