Mr. Wonderful says he's likely lost all $15M of loot he got for being FTX's official spokesperson, admitting that backing the firm wasn’t a “good investment.”
Shark Tank star and investor Kevin O’Leary, known in some circles as Mr. Wonderful, has claimed he has all but lost the $15 million FTX paid him to be its official spokesperson.that after taxes, agents fees, a $1 equity investment into FTX, and buying a whole lot of crypto that's now stuck on the FTX exchange, he's got nothing left to show for his time with FTX.
“Total deal was just under $15 million, [...] I put about $9.7 million into crypto. I think that’s what I’ve lost. It's all at zero, I don’t know cos my account got scraped a couple of weeks ago. All the data, all the coins, everything.” “It was not a good investment [...] I don’t make good investments all the time, luckily I make more good ones than bad ones, but that was a bad one,” he added.to have a net worth of around $400 million — if such estimates are anything to go by.
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