The Crypto Maniacs and the Torture Townhouse

Wow - wild.

[quote] But from early in his teen years, he seemed unable to avoid trouble. His father told friends they’d “spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to figure out what was wrong with him.” Will told people that before he could finish his senior year at King, a private high school in nearby Stamford, he had stabbed a drug dealer. After this incident, he later told people, his father shipped him off to China to work in a bicycle factory. There, each evening, Duplessie returned covered in soot to his five-star hotel. It seemed like a miracle when he was accepted to Bard College. He started in 2012 but showed little academic interest. He spent much of his time in a house off-campus his freshman year with Peter Brant Jr., son of the billionaire art collector.

Don’t Chinese factory workers have enough problems without the sociopathic sons of Greenwich being shipped in as coworkers?

Detestable Peter Brant Jr. makes an appearance.

Here’s Morgan O’Connor, the assistant.

It's too small for my eyes. What was with the typewriters? The guy is a full on psychopath tho

If his dad wasn’t rich he would have been fired from his first fast food job and in prison before the age of 21.

Didn't this story win Best Picture this year?

My favorite:

[quote] It was like D-Day in the Brandy store,” says a friend of several employees. Multiple girls were in tears, frightened they’d accidentally become accessories to torture. One said that the experience had “caused a flare-up” of her “crippling anxiety and panic disorder.”

Morgan O’Connor is bloated and ugly now. Old pics.

They’re guilty of extortion and perhaps assault, but I don’t know about kidnapping.

They sound like fun

Let’s cast the inevitable movie. Armie Hammer as Duplessie. And Shia LeBoeuf as Woeltz. I’d love to see Timothee as the victim, but he’s probably out of reach. Perhaps Pete Davidson. I’d enjoy watching him get tortured.

Woeltz and Duplessie used the typewriters to communicate with one another while Brant et al were at the Kentucky mansion and then burned them after reading, r6.

[quote] “I don’t understand why I’m here,” he told officers the morning of his arrest. “I’m from Kentucky. I came out here for work. Obviously, it’s going great. Hedge fund. I’m 37. My birthday was yesterday. We went out to a club for a little bit. We had a few drinks. It was all right. New York has not the best reputation in Kentucky, but everyone here has been really, really good.”

Woeltz wants the cops to know that NY has a bad reputation, but he’s found it to be ok from his lofty perch as a resident of Kentucky.

Duplessie’s parents haven’t bailed him out. Maybe they realize it’s finally time for him to go to prison where he belongs and has been heading his whole life.

These crypto-millionaires are the perfect metaphor for our times. The worst rise to wealth by creating nothing through luck. At least the gold miners found something useful in getting rich.

Good lord, that’s a rough 33.

[quote] For some who knew Duplessie — friends, former business partners — his arrest seemed inevitable. In fact, some of these guessed he might be involved in the kidnapping before he was even named. “I just saw the headline, like, ‘Chain-Saw Torture in New York Penthouse,’ and I assumed it was Will,” says one former friend. “That’s how on brand it was for him.”

I can’t imagine what a sick and twisted college experience one would have at Bard.

Obviously whores were the only option for these fat freaks.

The part where Duplessie pulls a loaded gun on the chef and forces him to play Russian roulette is insane.

Taking photos of the victim smoking crack and then making t-shirts with the photo and forcing him to wear it.

These guys deserve everything coming to them and more.

But the “victim” was a willing participant in most of it. I’d find it hard to be on the jury.

Disagree r23. They had his crypto wallets and I think he thought he could get them back himself. He underestimated how psychotic and paranoid they were. I agree though that maybe extortion and assault are more appropriate than kidnapping.

This is going to be an increasing problem for bitcoin millionaires—being kidnapped and tortured for passwords. They’ll have to travel with armed guards at all times.

Or stay anonymous.

Someone could make a great movie out of this, but it would take skill to avoid making it a lurid mess.

A Great Gatsby for our times.

R25, except when the trading platform has a data leak, like Coinbase did. Essentially releasing a list of targets.

The leak was bad, but it did not include holdings. Just information about who had accounts Not everyone with a Coinbase account has assets worth stealing.

Classic sociopathic spoiled son of a sociopathic father who happened to be able to channel his sociopathy into more acceptable forms- aka, Wall Street

Take a lesson from this, kids: don't do drugs. And don't buy crypto.

Here’s Andrew Duplessie, one of the brothers of William Duplessie. Another fuck up who got kicked out of multiple schools and yammers on about hard work and being an entrepreneur. Vapid loser.

Andrew Duplessie.

Plot twist: just a few weeks earlier NYMAG posted this fawning analysis of those Brandy girls… no mention of crypto. 🤔

R32. President of Tulane Business School! Stanfurd incubator! Published sci-fi author …he was stealing drugs from his brother

I always skipped over this story since it happened - but now reading it confirms it’s exactly what I see of the tech bro scene in downtown NYC. They’ve ruined the scene in downtown NYC - which is now swarmed post-pandemic with 20-30-something rich kids who are uninteresting and uninterested - oblivious to culture or creativity. Just money, looking rich and spending the money that the new era of concentrated wealth allowed them to get via the structures that enable the kids of rich people to get rich.

It's the End of the World as We Know it.

so all the girls who work at brandy melville are prostitution whores?

It's weird that every single person in this story could fall over dead and the world would be a better place.

Bright lights, Big city!

Well r35, I don’t know, here’s an article about the artist Juliet Duplessie, who has been an expert at dividing art and business in her life since she was a young teenager. A brilliant business mind and artist.

Here is the artist Juliet Duplessie’s incredible work. Amazing she was able to create things like this while simultaneously being such an incredible business person.

These guys need make a donation to Trump. They’ll be pardoned in no time.

lol R41. A new Warhol for the ages!

Wall Street Journal article as an archive.ph link. One interesting note in this article is that the two tried to kidnap a Swiss German man William Duplessie met doing crypto in Switzerland. He texted his mother who called the police.

[quote] A little more than a week before the party plane to Smithland, a Holiday Inn clerk in nearby Paducah called 911 for help. A German-speaking guest, the clerk said, shared alarming text messages from her son, who was visiting the U.S. from Switzerland.

[quote] “In English, it’s saying, ‘They don’t want to let me go, bitcoin,’” the clerk said, relaying the texts after running them through a phone translator. “‘Need help, they are armed to the brim.’”

[quote] The mother said her son, Michael Mauer, went to see a friend named John in Smithland, on Birdsville Road—the street where Woeltz owned a smaller house. Woeltz had worked with Mauer on the Grin Coin project five years earlier.

[quote] Not long after, Mauer called his mother to say he had been released. He walked to an intersection in Smithland where he was met by an officer. Mauer didn’t respond to requests for comment

Actually that first attempted kidnapping was of a friend of John Woeltz. Someone he met at Grin Coin.

Scott Hernandez whose father ran Telemundo and mother is a big Bush, Cruz, Trump donor. He introduced Duplessie to a political consultant to advise him on running for McConnell’s KY senate seat. Jfc.

Jesse Plemons is a lock to play Duplessie. They look very similar.

This country has gone insane - it makes perfect sense that these type of people would vote Trump. The levels,of entitlement, obliviousness and cultural vacancy of this generation makes them the perfect target for this nonsense.

This is why a massive estate tax is necessary. Nepotism compounds incompetence at the top of society over the course of generations, until it can't function anymore.

grifting scum.

Gen Grift

The Caligula Kids

The Uday & Qusay Set

Failsons 2.0

Ponzi Heirs

The rich have seized control over the government in alliance with white supremacists and Christian Nationalists. It’s going to be very difficult to take it back. They’re not stupid. They started with the Supreme Court.

It will take a popular uprising and things are going to have to get pretty bad for that to happen. And popular uprisings don’t always succeed.

If the rich are as stupid and witless as the idiots detailed in OPs article then it won't be difficult at all to take things back. These have got to be some of the greediest and most stupid people, ever.

[quote]This is why a massive estate tax is necessary.

The problem with crypto and Bitcoin, etc is that it's hard to track who has what, so how do you tax it? The issue with these stupid Crypto Kids in the article is that they were so scared others would steal their bitcoin, they hired armed guards and carried automatic guns around 24-7, living in a constant state of paranoia (which was their undoing).

We're in uncharted waters is the problem, with this shit.

It’s funny to me when I click one of those .ph links feeling all naughty that I’m reading something I shouldn’t … and it’s something I subscribe to anyway

I wish the Zizians were in NY rather than CA. I’d like to see how those gals would solve a problem like this.

[quote] If the rich are as stupid and witless as the idiots detailed in OPs article then it won't be difficult at all to take things back

They aren’t.