Disgraced tech bro Sam Bankman-Fried has blamed his Harry Potter fan ex-girlfriend for the $32billion collapse of his crypto exchange FTX and claims he was ‘oblivious’ to its impending demise until it was too late.
Bankman-Fried, 30 – who lived and worked with in a 10-person ‘polycule’ in the Bahamas along with his on-off girlfriend where they all dated each other – said in a Twitter direct message interview with Vox that his ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison’s company Alameda was responsible for gambling and losing his company’s money.
Asked about FTX loaning money to Alameda and whether he thought they had enough collateral to cover losses, he said ‘sometimes life creeps up on you’.
Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself
The fallen crypto CEO on what went wrong, why he did what he did, and what lies he told along the way.
Last night, Sam Bankman-Fried DMed me on Twitter.
That was surprising. I’d spoken to Bankman-Fried via Zoom earlier in the summer when I was working on a profile of him, so I reached out to him via DM on November 13, after news broke that his cryptocurrency exchange had collapsed, with billions in customer deposits apparently gone. I didn’t expect him to respond — typically, people under investigation by both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice don’t return requests for comment.
