A glamorous Italian assistant has reportedly been arrested with a group of so-called crypto-bros after a tourist in New York told police he had been held captive and tortured for nearly three weeks for access to his Bitcoin account.
Beatrice Folchi, 24, was arrested on Friday on suspicion of first-degree kidnapping and first-degree unlawful imprisonment after a tourist from Turin claimed to have escaped incarceration at a $75,000-per-month brownstone Soho mansion.
Folchi, an aspiring actress who lives in Connecticut, was seen being led out of the property on Saturday after cops first swooped on the property on Friday morning.
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office declined to prosecute pending further investigation, a spokesperson said, and Ms Folchi insisted she was not implicated in the crimes.
'I'm not arrested,' she told the New York Post outside her apartment in Chelsea, New York City, declining to comment further. 'Everything is going to be told but with a lawyer - I can't make any comments right now,' she said.
