Former New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight finish Rob Gronkowski can pay $1.9 million to settle claims introduced towards him by former prospects of Voyager Digital, a cryptocurrency lender.
The settlement, which remains to be topic to approval by the courtroom overseeing the civil lawsuit, will see the Nationwide Soccer League star generally known as “Gronk” pay right into a $2.4 million pool alongside Nationwide Basketball Affiliation participant Victor Oladipo and racecar driver Landon Cassill, in line with a courtroom submitting dated Might 3.
Gronkowski grew to become a “model ambassador, Voyager shareholder” and holder of Voyager’s VGX token in September 2021, an organization press launch introduced on the time.
Voyager filed for chapter in 2022.
A bunch of Voyager buyers sued Dallas Mavericks proprietor Mark Cuban and different Voyager promoters that very same 12 months, including Gronkowski and different promoters final 12 months. The buyers introduced they’d reached a cope with Gronkowski in February. Final week’s submitting noticed the Voyager buyers announce that they had been able to proceed with “the primary trance of proposed Class Settlements,” which had been made with Gronkowski, Oladipo and Cassill.
“Plaintiffs have now settled with Voyager promoters Cassill, Gronkowski, and Oladipo for thousands and thousands of {dollars} in reduction to the category leaving Co-Defendants Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks because the remaining Defendants for trial in November 2024,” the submitting mentioned.
Based on an accompanying exhibit, Gronkowski can pay $1.9 million, Oladipo can pay $500,000 and Cassill can pay $25,000 to settle the claims. If the courtroom approves the settlement, the claims towards the three might be dismissed.
Coincidentally, the buyers filed the proposed settlement with the courtroom simply two days earlier than former NFL quarterback Tom Brady – Gronkowski’s former teammate – participated in a comedic roast, which noticed a number of comedians and different stars touch upon Brady’s earlier crypto endorsements, although with out mentioning FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried’s defunct trade Brady promoted.
Comic Kevin Hart joked that the roast was going down on the Kia Discussion board and never the Crypto.com Enviornment to keep away from reminding folks Brady owed them cash, whereas fellow comic Nikki Glaser took a extra pointed method.
“Tom additionally misplaced $30 million in crypto. Tom, how did you fall for that? I imply, even Gronk was like, ‘Me know that not actual cash,'” she mentioned.