Caroline Ulbricht Created 2025-02-11 Updated 2025-09-09 2025-09-09
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Caroline Ulbricht is the wife of Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road website which allowed users to buy and sell illegal drugs online.
Caroline's maiden name is Caroline Debrion. She is French, and they met soon after Ross was put into jail. The couple married in 2024, one year before Ross' pardon in 2025. The spectacular comeback tour of Ross Ulbricht explains:
Shortly after Mr. Ulbricht was sentenced, he received a letter from a French tech worker in Los Angeles, Caroline Debrion. She told him that she had followed the trial and thought he could use support. They exchanged letters almost every day.
Other interesting quotes from the article related to Caroline:
“I dated so many jerks in L.A., and Ross was just very real and just super kind,” she said in 2021, according to a recording of a conversation with an associate obtained by The Times. “Ross is very, very romantic.”
Their relationship caused friction in the family. Ms. Ulbricht and Ms. Debrion sometimes butted heads, two people familiar with the women said. Against the wishes of Ms. Ulbricht, who had shielded her son from the media, Ms. Debrion helped persuade Mr. Ulbricht to participate in a Silk Road documentary, a last-ditch effort to sway public opinion.
Ciro Santilli had deduced caroline's maiden name "Caroline Debrion" before the New York Times article by stalking of her online accounts below. Also, her middle name might start with an L giving "Caroline L. Debrion", but this is less certain.
Likely accounts, all of which were live after Ross left prison, but were since taken down tested as of July 2025, including any Wayback Machine archives:
Googling "Caroline Debrion" previously found: cryptonews.com/fr/exclusives/saga-ross-ulbricht-et-silk-road-scandales-derriere-la-peine-3271/ (archive from January 2025) specificlly describing her in French as "voluntary and projct manager for the website FreeRoss", so that is almost certainly be her maiden name. As of July 2025, her family name "Debrion" had been removed from the article, which is marked "Last updated: June 18, 2025", so they possibly read this article and requested the change. She is also quoted in French in that article, but before The spectacular comeback tour of Ross Ulbricht it was unclear if she actually spoke in French or if this was just translated from English. Translation of one of her quotes:
Caroline, a volunteer and project manager for the FreeRoss website, clarified the case: "Ross has never been prosecuted for injury or death, or for endangering another person."
Ciro Santilli first found her name mentioned without source at: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ross_Ulbricht_Released_from_Prison_(cropped).jpg. Her first name "Caroline" was given by Ross at: x.com/RealRossU/status/1888299042146578925 on February 8th 2025.
As of 2025 most Google hits currently give "Rebecca Caroline Ulbricht Ferreira" however, an unrelated Brazilian molecular biology researcher from UNICAMP. So a good Google search is "caroline ulbricht" -Rebecca to remove the overlap. This leads to www.linkedin.com/in/carolineld/ hits.
x.com/pete_rizzo_/status/1882489065167356024 has a photo of them hugging at the jail parking lot just after he was released in 2025.
Figure 1.
Ross Ulbricht with his wife soon after he was released from jail in 2025 in front of a mural
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Ross Ulbricht with his wife soon after he was released from jail in 2025 on the road
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Figure 3.
Ross Ulbricht's wife LinkedIn profile picture according to facecheck.id
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Ross Ulbricht's wife's wife credly.com profile picture according to facecheck.id
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Ross Ulbricht's wife's wife meetup.com profile picture according to facecheck.id
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