Boaz Weinstein, the New York hedge fund mogul who made his fortune betting against JPMorgan, is separating from his wife, Tali Farhadian, a one-time candidate for Manhattan district attorney, The Washington Post has learned.
Lawyers for Weinstein, a 51-year-old longtime Democratic donor, filed for divorce on April 4 from his wife of 14 years, who worked for former Attorney General Eric Holder in the Obama administration.
Farhadian ran a big-money campaign against Alvin Bragg in the summer of 2021, using his Wall Street connections.
She also clerked for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and served as a prosecutor at both the federal and local levels.
The New York power couple married in November 2010 in a lavish ceremony at Manhattan's Central Synagogue, officiated by Rabbi James Ponet.
Documents to be submitted The terms of the divorce are in dispute, according to New York State Supreme Court case records.
“If this had already been done, there would have been a settlement agreement. Obviously, there are still issues,” he said. Chaim Steinberger, New York's Top Family Lawyernot representing either party.
“The defendant felt it was necessary to seek immediate judicial intervention,” he added, referring to the motion filed May 31 by her divorce lawyer, Ryan Cason.
Mr. Cason has also filed dozens of exhibits with the court on Mr. Farhadian's behalf, all of which have been sealed by court order, Mr. Steinberger said.
“Tali Farhadian Weinstein and Boaz Weinstein have decided to end their marriage. Tali does not plan to make any further public statements and requests that her family's privacy be respected,” Casson told The Post in an email.
“This is an amicable divorce between two people who have the utmost respect for one another. They expect the divorce to be resolved quickly and ask that their family's privacy be respected,” a spokesperson for Boaz Weinstein added.
The couple lived in a posh Fifth Avenue apartment on the Upper East Side near Central Park, according to property records.
In 2012, Weinstein purchased the opulent bedroom that once belonged to the late, eccentric copper heiress Hughette Clark for $25.5 million.
The founder of Saba Capital Management recently clashed with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink over his attempt to take control of a series of closed-end funds that pool money from investors to buy securities.
Weinstein rose to fame in 2011 with a bet against JPMorgan that reportedly netted him $300 million. He was the first to shed light on former JPMorgan trader Bruno Iksil, aka the London Whale, who was trading huge amounts of credit default swap index money.
That helped his company, housed in New York's famed Art Deco Chrysler Building, reach a peak of $6 billion in 2012.
Weinstein founded the firm in 2009 after leaving his role as co-head of international trading at Deutsche Bank.
Farhadian, who was endorsed by The Washington Post and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Manhattan District Attorney General primary, ran against progressive Bragg in 2021 and narrowly lost the Democratic nomination.
Bragg won 34.3 percent of the vote, while Farhadian, an Iranian Jew who fled to the United States in 1979 at age 4, won 30.7 percent.
A Rhodes Scholar at Britain's prestigious Oxford University, she raised more than $2 million for her campaign from top New York financiers.
They included pro-Trump donors such as Pershing Square's Bill Ackman and Citadel's Ken Griffin.
