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Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen are among FTX shareholders set for wipeout

Around this time last year, FTX Trading raised $400m, valuing the company at $32b



Tom Brady, left, and Gisele Bundchen attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala on May 6, 2019, in New York.
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Billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and star NFL quarterback Tom Brady are among those sharing in the pain of FTX Group's sudden implosion.

Brady, formerly a prominent FTX booster, owns more than 1.1 million common shares of FTX Trading, bankruptcy court documents show. His ex-wife, supermodel Gisele BA.25ndchen, has more than 680,000 shares in the same entity.

Meanwhile, KPC Venture Capital LLC, an entity linked to the Kraft Group, holds more than 110,000 Series B preferred shares in FTX Trading, the entity that owns its main crypto exchange, according to the court papers. The firm also owns 479,000 Class A common shares and 43,545 Series A preferred shares in West Realm Shires, the unit that owns the company's US-based exchange.

The value of the investments couldn't immediately be learned, but are assumed to be practically worthless. Stockholders of bankrupt companies rarely recover any of their money because US law requires creditors be repaid in order of priority, and stockholders are last in line, below those with direct claims on a company's assets, customers and suppliers.

"At the end of the day, we're not going to be able to recover all of the losses here," John J. Ray III, who's handling FTX's restructuring, said last month.

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Representatives for Brady and the Kraft Group didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

Brady is among a group of Wall Street and Silicon Valley elite who were stuck with FTX shares, including Tiger Global Management, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and Sequoia Capital, according to the document.

Around this time last year, FTX Trading raised $400 million, valuing the company at $32 billion.

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