Whoa! We simply realized how a lot Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen truly misplaced in that crypto crash final 12 months, and we’re floored!
OK, so rewind. Before their divorce, Tom and Gisele received into enterprise with a man named Sam Bankman-Fried, whose firm FTX, a cryptocurrency market, was blowing up. This “wunderkind” was getting plenty of celebs to shill his web site, however the former New England Patriots QB was his prime ambassador. He and Gisele appeared in adverts, spoke at conferences, and posted on social concerning the brilliance of FTX.
It all got here crashing down in November 2022. We don’t know finance, however close to as we will inform most of what this SBF man was telling everybody was a lie — and when the scheme was found a TON of individuals misplaced their cash. Mostly it was common joes who have been satisfied they have been making a sizzling funding — partially as a result of heroes like Tom Brady have been doing it. But Tom and Gisele paid for the error, too.
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We knew they have been into the enterprise for lots, however DAMN. The New York Times revealed on Thursday in a bombshell report that the NFL nice invested a whopping $30 million into the corporate. His supermodel spouse invested $18 mil of her personal money!
That’s $48 million they misplaced! Yowza!
Remember, Tom’s internet price is (was??) $250 million, and Gisele’s was $400 mil. So they’ll be fantastic. But $48 million simply gone. Wow.
In change for his or her funding, they received FTX inventory choices, which in fact are actually fully nugatory. Innerestingly they might lose extra than that — as a result of they might need to pay taxes on the funding! Ouch! Not to say the couple might face much more dire penalties — due to their evangelizing about FTX, they’ve been named in a category motion lawsuit, together with different celebs who did adverts, together with Shaquille O’Neal and Larry David.
Tom hasn’t spoken concerning the FTX crash publicly, however Gisele was requested about it in a Vanity Fair profile earlier this 12 months. She stated:
“I was blindsided. I’m no different than everyone else that trusted the hype… It’s just… terrible. I’m so sorry for all of us that this happened, and I just pray that justice gets made.”
Um… Justice would possibly turn into her paying out even MORE to victims of the scheme who say it was Tom and Gisele who offered them on FTX!
What do YOU suppose? Have these two paid sufficient?? Or do they owe the opposite victims extra??
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