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Who is Caroline Ellison? FTX insider threatens to release sex tape involving Sam Bankman-Fried and his ex

The collapse and bankruptcy of her former lover's businesses last week have brought Caroline Ellison under the scanner

Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison of Alameda Research, two main figures in the ongoing cryptocurrency scandal and crash, are allegedly involved in a sex tape. Reportedly, an anonymous source from within FTX claims to be in possession of the tape. The shocking information was shared on various social media pages, which appear to claim that the clip will be released to the public on November 18, unedited and uncut. 

The collapse and bankruptcy of her former lover's businesses last week have brought Caroline Ellison, the CEO of Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency trading firm Alameda Research, under the scanner. Bankman-Fried allegedly transferred $10 billion of FTX customer money to Alameda last week in secret. According to New York Post, around $2 billion of the $10 billion is still missing. About 130 FTX Group affiliates, including Alameda, were listed in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition last week.

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Who is Caroline Ellison?

The 28-year-old CEO is currently under fire for the billion-dollar collapse amid reports that she is Sam Bankman's ex-girlfriend. Ellison, a native of Boston, attended Stanford University and worked at Jane Street as a trader before being associated with FTX and Alameda.

According to an investigation by CoinDesk, Ellison was reportedly Bankman-Fried’s former college classmate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The report also claims that they occasionally dated while running the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency empire, whose value nosedived from an estimated $32 billion at its peak to effectively zero following a rapid decline. 

Meanwhile, news about the alleged sex tape took Twitter by surprise. One person wrote, “Lmao 🤣 rumors are that theres an SBF and Caroline sex tape coming out. This is atrocious. Disgusting 🤢 🤮. Who would degrade someone like this? For real though. You gonna watch it? No lie they both deserve jail for life so f**k them.” “People have no imagination if they are saying ‘how can it get crazier?’ Sam and Caroline have a sex tape, it leaks, she gets the attention of Pete Davidson who decides to be with her, Kim gets jealous, Kanye finds out about FTX, leads him to DeafCon4,” another quipped. 

While it is still unknown whether the sex tape actually exists, the FTX crash appears to be worsening every day. FTX filed for bankruptcy after traders rushed to remove $6 billion from the platform. More chaos ensued after assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars were removed from the site under "suspicious circumstances". Later, John J Ray III, the newly appointed chief executive of FTX, stated that the organization was cooperating with law authorities and regulators and making every effort to protect customers' assets.

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