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Perhaps you saw the news that earlier this week that Caroline Ellison, the former Alameda Research CEO and ex-lover of Sam Bankman-Fried, pleaded guilty to charges that carry up to 110 years in prison.

If you did, you probably saw the same photo of Ellison that everyone has seen dozens of times. 

I’m talking about the one where she’s looking at the camera through big glasses with a big smile, looking more like a Hufflepuff than a notorious white-collar criminal. 

We at Insider are a little tired of this photo and think the world also deserves a new image of such a notable person from the tumultuous year soon coming to a close.

So we paid the robots at Lensa to come up with a new one – or a new 20 or so. And now we’d like to share them with you.  

So here you are! Happy holidays from Insider and and a robot’s vision of your fallen crypto queen, Caroline Ellison.

Charges against Ellison include conspiracy to commit wire fraud, securities fraud, and commodities fraud.

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There’s also a charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering.

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She waived her defense of all charges.

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She’s agreed to pay restitution.

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That could be a big figure!

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FTX lost billions in client holdings.

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Much of the funds were allegedly lost via a hedge fund run by Ellison.

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Allegedly, FTX lent its clients’ holdings to Alameda.

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Ellison is from the suburbs of Boston, where white Christmases are common.

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Her parents work at MIT.

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Funny enough, SBF’s parents have worked at Stanford.

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Ellison later went to Stanford.

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After college, she worked at Jane Street, a Wall Street trading firm.

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She joined Alameda in 2018 after SBF reportedly told her “we don’t really know what we’re doing.”

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Source: Forbes

She made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2022! Wow!

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She and SBF and eight others lived together in the Bahamas.

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On a Tumblr believed to be hers, she described it as an “imperial Chinese harem.”

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Source: Screenshot of the Ellison’s supposed Tumblr provided by Twitter handle @OxHonky. 

Reuters reported in November that Bankman-Fried allegedly secretly moved $10 billion in customer funds from FTX to Alameda Research.

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Source: Insider.

“We didn’t secretly transfer,” SBF told Reuters. “We had confusing internal labeling and misread it.” Oops!

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Source: Insider.