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Citadel CEO Ken Griffin pays $43.2 million for Constitution copy, outbidding crypto group

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Citadel’s founder and CEO, Ken Griffin.

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The billionaire Citadel CEO Ken Griffin paid $43.2million for the first edition copy of the U.S. Constitution in a Sotheby’s auction. He outbid a number of crypto investors.

According to Sotheby’s, the amount sold more than twice its original estimate of $20 million. This set a new world record in auctions for books, manuscripts, historical documents, and printed texts.

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