The second week of the high-profile criminal trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was filled with insight into his private life provided by those closest to him, including a friend he met at math camp and his former girlfriend, Caroline Ellison.
Ellison climbed the corporate ladder quickly to become CEO of Alameda Research, the cryptocurrency hedge fund Bankman-Fried owned. Her explosive testimony took place over three days and included a look at the comically wild schemes hatched by Bankman-Fried and other top executives to keep the companies solvent, which included bribing Chinese officials and Thai prostitutes.
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Ellison also pulled back the curtain on the personal grooming habits and sloppy dress code of her former boyfriend, which she claimed was part of a carefully crafted public relations …