What Happened to Jennifer Robertson and Where Is Gerald Cotten's Wife Now?

Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King is the latest true-crime documentary to hit Netflix and fans of The Tinder Swindler, Inventing Anna, and Bad Vegan will not want to miss it. The gripping documentary explores the rise and fall of Gerald "Gerry" Cotten and his cryptocurrency exchange, Quadriga CX, and even addresses the conspiracy theories surrounding his untimely death.

His wife, Jennifer Robertson, is also mentioned throughout the documentary and her sister makes an appearance to give her account of knowing Cotten. What happened to Cotten's wife and where is she now? Newsweek has everything you need to know.

What Happened to Jennifer Robertson?

Canadian real estate developer Jennifer Robertson met Quadriga CEO Gerald Cotten on Tinder in 2014.

They married four years later in October 2018, living a luxury lifestyle, including buying properties and traveling across the world, as the value of bitcoin soared.

In December 2018, Cotten died while on his honeymoon with Robertson in Jaipur, India from complications related to Crohn's Disease. He was 30-years-old at the time of his death.

Cotten had allegedly told his wife he would create a mechanism that would allow her to access all of his crypto-related passwords should he die but he never did.

As a result, Cotten died with over CA$250 million [$200 million] in his Quadriga accounts. According to the Netflix documentary, at least 110,000 customers were affected.

In her book, Bitcoin Widow: Love, Betrayal and the Missing Millions, Robertson recalls people close to Cotten panicking and asking for her late husband's Quadriga passwords in the wake of his death. She insisted and continues to insist, that she did not know the passwords to any of Cotten's technology or the accounts he owned. She also said she believed Cotten was the only person with access to millions of dollars in cryptocurrency stored in cold wallets.

Some Quadriga users did not believe this was the case as they claimed they had received deposits from Robertson directly, contradicting her claims she was not involved in the company's dealings.

She later explained: "I hadn't understood how Quadriga had held money in the first place; I thought it was just a trade. There [were] many things about Quadriga that I didn't understand," reports CBC.

Robertson stated she was paid a commission fee to process payments for Quadriga via a firm set up in her name until 2016, but that was as far as she was involved in the business.

Where is Jennifer Robertson Now?

Jennifer Robertson does not appear in the Netflix documentary, Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King and unfortunately little is known about her post-Quadriga.

Today, she lives in Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada with her two dogs.

According to The Cinemaholic she is working as a part-time waitress and studying to become an elementary school teacher.

Robertson is also expecting a child, reported CBC.

In the wake of Cotten's death, Robertson inherited millions of dollars in real estate holding, but in October 2019 she returned CA$12 million worth of assets to Quadriga from her husband's estate as part of a voluntary settlement, reported Bloomberg News.

She also wrote her own book, Bitcoin Widow: Love, Betrayal and the Missing Millions, with Stephen Kimber, about her relationship with Cotten and the collapse of Quadriga. It was published in January 2022.

In the wake of Cotten's death, an investigation by the Ontario Securities Commission found Quadriga CX was essentially a "Ponzi scheme." The investigation found Cotten had created "fake Quadriga accounts, used fake funds and made real trades, betting on the value of cryptocurrency."

In its report, the Ontario Securities Commission recorded: "The downfall of crypto-asset trading platform Quadriga CX (Quadriga) resulted from a fraud committed by Quadriga's co-founder and CEO Gerald Cotten."

Robertson has always maintained she did not know her husband was effectively running a scam.

In a rare interview with CBC'S The National in January 2022, Robertson stated: "I would have never, ever stolen from other people. And the fact that he did what he did—I carry his shame with me. And I'll carry that shame with me, probably, every single day for the rest of my life."

Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King is streaming on Netflix now.