One of the crypto bigwigs charged with the gruesome torturing of an Italian millionaire in a posh SoHo townhouse will be released on bond after spending a year at Rikers Island, The Post has learned.
William Duplessie, 33, will be sprung from the notorious city lockup on a reduced $250,000 bail package, with his relatives agreeing to put up collateral, according to sources familiar with the case.
Duplessie’s bond — secured by bail bondsman to the stars Ira Judelson — was approved by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro Wednesday afternoon. The Miami, Fla. resident is expected to be released from custody as soon as Thursday.
Duplessie and his alleged business partner, 38-year-old Kentucky crypto king John Woeltz, are accused of holding wealthy trader Michael Carturan captive for more than two weeks last May and torturing him inside the Prince Street manse for the password to his crypto accounts.
Woeltz, a crypto dealer purportedly worth $100 million, masterminded the sick scheme, which allegedly included pistol-whipping Carturan, cutting him with a chainsaw and urinating on him while they held him captive, prosecutors say.
Woeltz was released on house arrest last July after his father, Matthew Van Woeltz, put his home on the line and his mother Joan agreed to cover his full $1 million bond if her son failed to follow the court’s rules.
The judge had set the same $1 million bond amount for Duplessie, but agreed to reduce the size of the bond to $250,000 last month as the months kept ticking by with Duplessie languishing behind bars, court records show.
Duplessie will wear an ankle bracelet and has agreed to location monitoring in an arrangement overseen by Judelson, who has a long history of securing the release of high-profile Big Apple defendants.
Duplessie and Woeltz have each pleaded not guilty, and their lawyers have argued that the absurd alleged torture tactics were part a bizarre, yet consensual, party atmosphere. Both men are due in court next Monday for a status conference in the high-profile case.
Woeltz was arrested inside the alleged SoHo house of horrors after a barefoot Carturan flagged down a traffic cop and described his horrid ordeal, and divulged his alleged twisted accomplice’s identity within hours of being nabbed, court papers show.
“My partner is William Duplessie. We have attorneys but I don’t know them,” he told a detective in an interview room at Chinatown’s 5th Precinct.
Duplessie was nabbed four days later — after living it up in the Hamptons over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
The alleged torturer and his dad James Duplessie, a financier, had co-founded Switzerland-based blockchain funds in the years before his arrest, according to reports.