Matthew Ingalls — the Cornell University Chi Phi fraternity brother who admitted he initiated the now infamous threesome that an unnamed female student claimed in a lawsuit turned into a gang rape — is a US hater who grew up in privilege and whose father teaches Islamic studies in Dubai, The Post has learned.
Ingalls, 21, whose full name is Umar Matthew Ingalls, attended Dubai International Academy, an elite private school that charges about $21,000 a year located in what has been dubbed the “Beverly Hills of Dubai.” The former frat bro grew up between the Middle East and the United States.
The school, in Dubai’s Emirates Hills neighborhood, hailed as the city’s “most exclusive and prestigious gated community” where homes start at $3 million, was listed as Ingalls’ alma mater on Cornell University’s rugby roster for 2023-2024, when he played on the team.
A resurfaced 2020 article said he was embarrassed by his American citizenship while attending the posh school, having to explain to people in the United Arab Emirates that “no, I’m not a Trump supporter.”
“Generally speaking, ‘American’ over here is synonymous with ‘Trump,’ which is synonymous with a whole bunch of other words that I won’t mention,” a high school online magazine quotes Ingalls as saying, describing him as half American.
At that time, he went by Umar Ingalls, according to the article and another from 2022 about a lunar rover project he built with four Dubai International Academy classmates.
His father, Matthew Burtchaell Ingalls, is a professor of Islamic studies at the American University in Dubai, where he has taught since 2016 and chairs the Department of Middle Eastern Studies.
The older Ingalls, 48, a convert to Islam, lamented in a 2021 article that the research on Islam was too focused on terrorism.
“Much of the research in the Americas focused on questions of assimilation or terrorism and neglected the more basic issues of belief, practice and community,” he wrote in the research paper.
“Islam, in other words, was framed as a problem, not a way of life.”
The elder Ingalls earned a doctorate in Islamic studies from Yale University in 2011 after receiving a master’s degree in Arabic studies from the American University in Cairo in 2004. Ingalls’ mother, Yasmine Khattab, is Egyptian.
He taught Sharia law and Islamic Fundamentalism at Yale. His photo and contact information were removed from his bio page on the American University in Dubai’s website this week amid the scandal.
Ingalls was one of the two fraternity brothers expelled from Cornell University in 2024 after an internal investigation found them responsible for sexual assault. He reportedly fled to Dubai in the wake of the alleged gang rape lawsuit filed last month, and had told friends he was taking a gap year in Thailand to “find himself” after his expulsion, according to the Daily Mail.
Four days after the party, Jane Doe texted Ingalls in a panic saying “everybody knows,” and that she wanted to sniff out “the rats,” text messages newly released this week revealed.
“My reputation is destroyed and i’m utterly ashamed. i’m f—king pissed because this many people shouldn’t know and i feel like i know who some of the rats in the room were,” she texted him.
She added rumors were spreading, and growing “crazier every f—king day.”
Doe also threatened to beat up anyone who gives them “sh-t” about what happened while adding she’s “open-minded” about sexuality.
“Everyone needs to grow up cause sexuality and sex and sh-t is changing and stuff like this is going to become more common,” she texted, while adding that she is “also really open minded tho.”
Two weeks later, she texted him how the night started, and Ingalls replied, “you come in, say hi. We start dancing for like maybe three to five minutes, and then I pop the question,” of the threesome.
Ingalls then wrote “boys come whip it out” — twice — in the vile Chi Phi Snapchat group conversation, and later claimed he was the real victim and was “sodomized” by Jane Doe.
He complained nobody at the Ivy League school cared he was a sex-assault “survivor,” an explosive new report revealed.
All seven of the Chi Phi brothers have denied raping Doe, and none have been charged with any crimes.
Ingalls could not be reached for comment, and The Post questions to his father were not answered.
