Wall Street banker accidentally sent sex tape to colleague while working from home

A working from home blunder has cost a Goldman Sachs banker millions of dollars after he accidentally sent a sex video to a junior female colleague, according to reports.

Adam Dell reached a settlement with another Goldman employee after unintentionally sharing explicit images as part of a work-related video, Bloomberg reported. He left the bank shortly after.

Mr Dell had a camera on for a work project but forgot to turn it off and recorded himself engaging in sexually explicit activities, an internal review found.

After receiving the video, the woman hired a lawyer who sought around $30m (£23.5m) in damages on her behalf.

Mr Dell, whose brother is the billionaire computer entrepreneur Michael Dell, ultimately reached an agreement to pay a multi-million dollar settlement to resolve the 2020 incident. He has since left the bank.

Goldman Sachs has disputed the report, saying it contained “significant factual errors”.

A long time entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Mr Dell joined Goldman in 2018 as a partner after the bank bought a personal-finance app he founded.

The fintech entrepreneur is a known figure within New York’s elite social scene after engaging in a long-running on-again, off-again relationship with Padma Lakshmi, who is best-known in the US for hosting cooking show Top Chef.

The pair began dating in 2009, two years after Ms Lakshmi’s divorce from novelist Salman Rushdie, whom she married in 2004.

Mr Dell and Ms Lakshmi have an 13-year-old daughter together and were involved in a high-profile and well-publicised battle over custody in 2012. The couple are said to have amicably split in 2021, according to the New York Post.

The sexually explicit video incident at Goldman Sachs triggered an internal review involving the highest levels of the bank, according to Bloomberg, including its chief executive David Solomon.

Tony Fratto, Goldman Sachs’ global head of communications, said: “As we told Bloomberg, their reporting contains significant factual errors and continues a pattern of leveraging unreliable sources. This reporting fails to meet fundamental journalistic standards.”