A bar named in the Cornell rape lawsuit is fighting back against claims that they served alcohol to the underage accuser.
Moonies Bar & Nightclub explained its role in serving Cornell students at a private Tri Delta sorority event in October 2024. The bar said that anyone under the age of 21 was marked on the hand, while those of legal drinking age and over wore wristbands. The business maintains that only students sporting wristbands were served alcohol, contradicting the account of the young “Jane Doe” accuser who says she was allowed to drink despite having her hand marked.
“Doe’s lawsuit alleges a Moonies bouncer placed an ‘X’ on each of the then-20-year-old’s hands to signify she was under 21, but that she was nevertheless served and consumed at least one alcoholic beverage inside the bar,” Fox News reported.
“No alcohol was served to anyone who had a mark on their hands,” the bar said in a statement to the outlet, adding that the young woman later worked for them from February to March 2025, and had even discussed the October incident. She did not, according to them, ever mention being intoxicated at the bar during the time, or being served while underage by the bartender.
“In a formal answer filed Sunday in New York Supreme Court, Zareen Enterprises LLC, which does business as Moonies Bar & Nightclub, denied unlawfully selling or furnishing alcohol to anyone under the legal drinking age and denied selling or furnishing alcohol to any visibly intoxicated person,” Fox noted. “The filing specifically denies the paragraph of Doe’s complaint alleging she was served alcohol at Moonies despite having been marked as underage. Moonies also denied that any act or omission on its part caused Doe’s alleged injuries.”
They are asking that the complaint be dismissed, arguing that Doe cannot prove that anyone who was underage or visibly intoxicated was provided with alcohol during the sorority event, or that any such sale would have contributed to the injuries she alleges to have sustained on that day.
X users reacted:
That bar should sue her for slander
— The Pipeline Podcast 2025 (@PipelinePod2025) October 6, 2026
@MaryBoots929 @MarioNawfal So can everyone just claim they were served with no proof? Like yall make no sense. Do you have brain?
— Truth hurts (@RepresentingPub) October 6, 2026
You can’t just sue a business for serving a minor when it turns out they didn’t even give her a drink, so someone is clearly lying here and the truth is going to be incredibly messy
— Nicholas Merten 🇺🇸 (@NicholasMertenK) October 6, 2026
College students would never have fake IDs that would get them drinks in bars now would they?
— Jeffrey B. Burton (@JeffreyBBurton1) October 6, 2026
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