Who is Caroline Ellison?

LEONARDO MUNOZ/AFP via Getty Images As the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried kicks off, Newton native Caroline Ellison — his on-again-off-again girlfriend and one of his most trusted deputies — is poised to take the stand against the onetime cryptocurrency tycoon.

What happened to Caroline Ellison & Sam Bankman-fried?

Caroline Ellison wanted to make a difference. Now she’s facing prison. For four years, Caroline Ellison and Sam Bankman-Fried worked together to build a crypto empire. Ellison ran the hedge fund connected to FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange Bankman-Fried founded in 2019.

Why did Caroline Ellison leave Wall Street?

NEW YORK - In 2018, a bespectacled Stanford graduate named Caroline Ellison decided to leave her job on Wall Street to join a startup cryptocurrency hedge fund called Alameda Research because she thought she would earn more money to give to charitable causes.

Why is Ms Ellison's account coloured?

Ms Ellison's account is expected to be coloured by her on-off romantic relationship with Mr Bankman-Fried, which was a source of stress for both, according to filings from prosecutors and her own writings which Mr Bankman-Fried shared with the New York Times over the summer.