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- Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers say his leak of Caroline Ellison's diary entries to the New York Times is OK.
- He was simply defending his side of the story, they wrote in a court filing.
- The story was "negative towards Mr. Bankman Fried" anyway, they said.
It's totally fine for Sam Bankman-Fried to give his ex-girlfriend's diary entries to a New York Times reporter, his lawyers said in a court filing.
On Thursday, the New York Times published a story featuring snippets from a journal kept by Caroline Ellison, a likely witness in the October criminal trial against Bankman-Fried and his ex.