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Sam Bankman-Fried blamed ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison for FTX collapse, telling colleagues she is ‘not a natural leader and probably never will be’

The founder of failed crypto exchange FTX blamed his ex-girlfriend when the scale of the company’s $11billion debts became clear.

Court documents showed that Sam Bankman-Fried wrote to his male colleagues that Caroline Ellison ‘is not a natural leader, and probably never will be.’

Bankman-Fried said in the September 2022 document that she made a ‘critical’ error by failing to make a risky investment he suggested to her.

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