News about Caterina Fake

The only child of Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake and Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield, the 16-year-old made headlines when she went vanished last month. Mint, who uses they/them pronouns, disappeared from Fake's weekend home in affluent Bolinas, northwest of San Francisco, on April 22. The mother had brought Mint to the weekend home so they could get away from a 26-year-old man - Christopher Dizefalo-  who goes by Kio and has now been arrested for her disappearance. Fake told The Daily Beast that Mint's downward spiral began when she turned 16 and started going to punk and emo clubs in the East Bay.

A woman has been charged with kidnapping Slack billionaire heiress Mint Butterfield, along with a 26-year-old tattooed suspect. On Saturday evening, Mint, 16, who uses they/them pronouns, was found by police in the back of a white van after they vanished for more than a week in San Francisco. Sarah Atkins was charged with abduction and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Christopher 'Kio' Dizefalo was charged with several counts, including child abduction, according to a criminal complaint.

The billionaire parents of Mint Butterfield, 16, have lashed out at the 'predator' who allegedly coaxed their daughter into disappearing in San Francisco last week. The parents wrote: 'We especially want to thank the seasoned law enforcement officers who understand the very real threat of predators who use the allure of drugs to groom teenagers.' Butterfield, who was found by police on Saturday evening, is the only daughter of two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield and Flickr founder Caterina Fake.

On Saturday evening, Marin County Sheriff's Office said they had located Mint Butterfield  safe in the California city after being found with an adult friend . Detectives say they learned that Butterfield was associating with a Christopher 'Kio' Dizefalo, 26, who was known to drive a white van. After tracking down the vehicle, officers found Butterfield inside. After Dizefalo was interviewed by detectives, he was arrested  and booked in the Marin County Jail, with bail set at $50,000.

The 16-year-old, who uses they/them pronouns, vanished from their mother's home in affluent Bolinas, on April 21, before their mom reported them missing the following day. Marin County Sheriff's Office told PEOPLE that authorities are 'investigating leads and working with the juveniles mother to try and acquire digital devices'. The same spokesperson added that authorities 'do not have any reason to believe there is foul play or anything criminal' to their disappearance.

The heiress to a tech fortune previously threatened to take her own life and remains missing, cops said late Thursday. Mint left their mother's home Sunday night and is believed to have done so under their own volition.

The missing teen daughter of two prestigious Silicon Valley magnates was seen at a ferry port some 50 miles from her mother's home in the San Francisco-area on Monday, a family friend has said. Mint Butterfield, 16, vanished from her mother's home in affluent Bolinas, on April 21. Her mom, Flickr founder Caterina Fake, reported her missing the following day. According to the missing poster in the case, Mint was last seen in Bolinas around 10pm Sunday. In a Facebook post, a family friend said that the teen was spotted in Larkspur Landing, a coastal community located north of San Francisco on April 23. Mint, who the heiress to a $1.6 billion fortune thanks in part to her father, Stewart Butterfield being a founder of work messaging app Slack, is a student at a boarding school in Napa County.

The 16-year-old daughter of a billionaire tech CEO has vanished and is believed to be in San Francisco's gritty Tenderloin neighborhood. Mint Butterfield, daughter of wealthy businessman Stewart Butterfield, was last seen on Sunday night at around 10 pm in Bolinas, California , and was reported missing the following morning by her mother. The teenager has a history of substance abuse and is known to frequent the notoriously dangerous San Francisco neighborhood 'the Tenderloin,' according to The San Francisco Standard . Marin County Sheriff's Office posted a 'missing' flyer with Mint's picture to the social media platform Nextdoor on Tuesday. Supervisor Matt Dorsey shared the flyer on X and said that Butterfield was now believed hanging around the Tenderloin.

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