FTX Bankruptcy Hearing Shows Tom Brady, Ex-Wife's Stake Loss Could Be $70M

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Tom Brady and Giselle Bundchen might be out $70 million.

That's what their stakes in cryptocurrency exchange FTX were worth before the crypto platform's stunning collapse late last year. They're among 9 million clients of the bankrupt firm, nine times a previously reported 1 million users.

While the NFL quarterback and his supermodel ex were known to be investors in FTX—he made now-cringeworthy ads for the exchange in 2021—the numbers weren't known until a bankruptcy hearing that got underway this week. Four mainstream media companies are demanding that a judge release all the client names as prosecutors dig into the firm's failure.

The hearing, which began Wednesday in the District of Delaware Bankruptcy Court, was live-streamed on YouTube.

U.S. football star Brady, Bundchen, and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft have been revealed as major stakeholders who lost their entire investment in the $32 billion collapse of the FTX exchange.

Bankruptcy documents filed on Monday said that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback owns more than 1.1 million common shares of FTX trading, while Bundchen has about 680,000 shares. Kraft was shown to have 479,000 common shares and 43,545 preferred shares through one of his companies, KPC Venture Capital LLC.Brady removed his Tweets promoting the exchange in November 2022.

It is unclear how much Brady and Bundchen paid for their stakes, but they may have lost up to $70 million. At a Dec. 14 hearing by the U.S. Senate Banking Committee into the failures of FTX, Shark Tank investor Kevin O'Leary estimated his 32,000 shares to be worth $1 million before the collapse.The NFL star and the former supermodel held about 2 million FTX shares together.

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