Sam Bankman-Fried is Caroline Ellison’s boyfriend.
Samuel Bankman-Fried is an American entrepreneur, investor, and former billionaire. He was the founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and cryptocurrency trading firm Alameda Research.
Born in 1992, Bankman-Fried attended Canada/USA Mathcamp, a summer program for mathematically talented high-school students. He also attended high school at Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough, California.
From 2010 to 2014, Bankman-Fried attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he lived in a coeducational group house called Epsilon Theta. In 2014, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in physics and a minor in mathematics.
In September 2022, it was reported that Bankman-Fried’s advisors had offered on his behalf to help fund Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter.
According to messages released as part of the lawsuit between Twitter and Musk during the latter’s acquisition of Twitter, on April 25, 2022, investment banker Michael Grimes wrote that Bankman-Fried would be willing to commit up to $5 billion.
On December 12, 2022, Bankman-Fried was arrested in his apartment complex in the Bahamas by the Royal Bahamas Police Force with the expectation that he would be extradited to the United States to face trial.
Earlier that day, the Southern District of New York had charged Bankman-Fried with “wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy, and money laundering”.