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Eating For Free

Charlie Zakkour and The Crypto Torture Townhouse (Part 1)

Eating For Free

Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson

Society & Culture

4.8535 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In which we breakdown New York Mag's major cover story 'The Crypto Maniacs and the Torture Townhouse'

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Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape: Where it comes from, who wields it, and who suffers at the hands of it. Find out the stories behind the stories, as together they look beyond the headlines of troublesome YouTubers or scandal-ridden A-Listers, and delve deep into the inner workings of Hollywood's favorite pastime. The truth, they've found, is definitely stranger than any gossip.

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Tonight in New York City news of a second arrest now in a very disturbing case.

0:04.0

A cryptocurrency investor was allegedly held captive and brutally tortured for weeks in a New York City townhouse.

0:10.4

Tonight here, what the suspects are accused of doing to that investor.

0:14.0

Here's Stephanie Ramos.

0:15.7

How was the handings?

0:17.7

Tonight, a second suspect surrendering to police led out in handcuffs in connection with that

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shocking and disturbing case of a cryptocurrency investor allegedly held captive and brutally tortured

0:28.5

for weeks inside this luxury Manhattan townhouse why did you do it why did you do it

0:34.0

who helped you 32 year old crypto investor will DuPlessy turning himself in early this morning.

0:40.3

37-year-old John Waltz, another crypto investor, was arrested Friday, brought out of that townhouse by police barefoot and in a bathrobe.

0:51.3

Waltz charged with kidnapping, assault and criminal possession of a firearm.

0:56.2

The alleged victim, a 28-year-old Italian national telling authorities his captors,

1:00.7

took his passport, tied him up, and demanded his Bitcoin password. When he refused,

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he says the suspects shocked him with electric wires, beat him with a firearm, and dangled him over a ledge, threatening to kill him if he didn't share the password. I'm A

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