The so-called Crypto King of Kentucky and his business partner hosted lavish parties in the luxury Manhattan townhouse where they allegedly tortured a man for weeks.
John Woeltz and William Duplessie are accused of kidnapping and torturing an Italian bitcoin investor for 17 days in the basement of a swanky rented SoHo apartment in order to extort his cryptocurrency password.
Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan escaped the alleged house of horrors on Friday - bloodied and barefoot - and told police he had been severely beaten, drugged, shocked with electrical wires and threatened with death.
Woeltz, 37, started renting the multimillion-dollar townhouse on March 17, paying his landlord between $75,000 and $95,000 per month to reside there, insiders told TMZ.
He and Duplessie, 32, intent on climbing the elite Manhattan social ladder, would reportedly host extravagant parties at the residence, offering guests drugs, alcohol and food from NYC hotspots including Blue Ribbon Sushi, Nobu, and Cipriani's.
