NFL legend Tom Brady and ex-wife Gisele Bündchen were amongst the biggest individual holders of FTX stock before the bankruptcy of the doomed crypto site, court documents revealed Tuesday.
FTX shares held by Brady, Bündchen and other celebrity backers at the moment are essentially worthless as officials scramble to salvage remaining assets and check out to financially bring back abandoned clients.
Brady, 45, owns greater than 1.1 million shares of FTX common stock, in line with a listing of shareholders released by the bankruptcy court. Bündchen has over 686,000 common shares. The couple finalized their divorce last yr.
FTX is a non-public company and the precise value of the equity stakes held by Brady, Bündchen and other investors couldn’t be immediately ascertained, but their value was likely substantial. In January 2021, just months before its collapse, FTX acquired a valuation of $32 billion.
In November, Forbes estimated that on paper Brady’s share was value about $45 million and Bündchen’s share was value about $25 million. Point based its claims on documents that Bankman-Fried once provided to Forbes.
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Other notable entities listed amongst FTX shareholders include KPC Enterprise Capital, an organization affiliated with Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the NFL Recent England Patriots.
KPC Enterprise Capital owns over 110,000 series B preferred shares of FTX’s important platform, in addition to 479,000 common shares and 43,545 series A preferred shares of West Realm Shires, the entity that controls FTX’s US operations.
Like all individuals and entities involved in the collapse of FTX, shareholders face a difficult battle to recoup their losses. Under US bankruptcy law, customers, suppliers and other creditors are entitled to receive funds before shareholders.
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Other FTX stakeholders include NBA player Udonis Haslem, the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund, and Wall Street firms resembling Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global, and Thoma Bravo.
Brady and Bündchen played a key role as brand ambassadors for FTX, at one point starring in an ad urging numerous atypical people, resembling plumbers and doctors, to speculate in cryptocurrencies. The previous couple received shares in exchange for promotional activities.
Last yr, Bündchen appeared with disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried on the Salt Crypto Bahamas conference, where they discussed sustainability efforts in the cryptocurrency industry together.
Brady and Bündchen topped the list of high-profile FTX sponsors named as defendants in a category motion lawsuit on behalf of clients who lost money in bankruptcy.
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A number of days after FTX went bankrupt, Brady quietly deleted tweets promoting the corporate.
Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to eight federal charges. The feds accused him of overseeing massive fraud and extorting billions of dollars from customers.