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Sam Bankman-Fried Shows Up for Court Leaner, With Famous Locks Shorn
- FTX co-founder appeared for jury selection in his fraud trial
- His now-trimmed black curls were a trademark mined for memes
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It was a noticeably leaner Sam Bankman-Fried, his famously unkempt hair tamed and trimmed, who showed up in a New York courtroom for the start of his multibillion-dollar fraud trial.
The 31-year-old FTX co-founder arrived in Manhattan federal court for jury selection Tuesday dressed in a navy suit that seemed bigger on him than in previous appearances. He sat in the middle of the courtroom, flanked by his lawyers.