Meltthew Mellon, a banking heir and Ripple billionaire, recently died in Cancun, Mexico, where he was treated for drugs.
After Mellon’s death, a close friend spoke to the Daily Mail, “People They talk about him being killed for his cryptocurrency. Hundreds of millions of dollars lost, perhaps forever. Matthew always said that ‘they’ went out to get him. Maybe he was right.”
Mellon’s personal assistant, Jesse Bias, said, “Matthew was paranoid about security. He always thought someone was about to steal his millions. He didn’t trust anyone.”
One of Ripple’s early investors and advisors, Mellon was known to have $1 billion worth of XRP.