Cash App founder Bob Lee was a regular at underground sex and drug parties with other San Francisco elites — including the sister of the man accused of killing him.
Lee’s stabbing death on April 4 was originally thought to have been the result of random violence in the crime-ridden city.
But friends of the tech mogul now say that it was the result of Lee’s partying with Khazar Momeni, the 37-year-old wife of a prominent plastic surgeon and the sister of Nima Momeni — who has been charged in his death.
The two had been sleeping together in the weeks leading up to his death in early April, his friends told the Wall Street Journal, and many feared he had fallen into a dangerous lifestyle, surrounding himself with the wrong group of people.
Prosecutors have previously said Momeni stabbed Lee in the heart multiple times after vowing to ‘come down hard on him’ and grilling him over his relationship with Khazar, with whom the Cash App founder exchanged intimate text messages.
Friends say Cash App founder Bob Lee was a regular at underground sex and drug parties with other San Francisco elites — including the sister of the man accused of killing him
Khazar Momeni is the sister of Nima Momeni suspected of killing Cash App founder Bob Lee on the streets of San Francisco. She is pictured with her husband Dr. Dino Elyassnia
Friends of the murdered tech mogul have described how the father-of-two took drugs casually and partied regularly.
They said Lee, 43, was passionate about developing the Venmo competitor following his career as a Google programmer.
But to unwind, Lee would allegedly take ketamine and cocaine and travel to raves across the world.
Once, Harper Reed, the CEO of General Calacic Corporation, claimed he and Lee even stripped off their pants to attend a party.
Lee, who was separated from his wife, would often sleep with multiple women at these parties, including Khazar and Nima, sources told the Wall Street Journal.
It was at one of these parties on April 3, when Nima — who sources say was a recluse at these parties, often standing in the corner — confronted Lee.
Prosecutors say Nima asked Lee if he and his sister were ‘doing drugs or anything inappropriate.’
A few hours later, Lee was found dead with multiple stab wounds, and authorities now believe Nima stabbed Lee multiple times with a kitchen knife and left him to bleed out on the street.
Lee was seen stumbling and was begging for help that night before collapsing near the Bay Bridge, just 16 minutes from Khazar’s apartment.
An ensuing autopsy found that had cocaine and ketamine in his system at his death.
Nima Momeni (left) vowed ‘came down way hard’ on Lee hours before the stabbing. Prosecutors say it was a planned attack in which he used a kitchen knife to stab Lee in the heart
On April 4, Lee was filmed on surveillance cameras staggering into an apartment building in downtown San Francisco at 2.35am after being stabbed. Yesterday, police searched the nearby apartment of Momeni’s sister, Khazar. It’s unclear if they’d been together or at the apartment earlier in the night
Authorities have said Khazar was texting Lee around the time he died.
‘Just wanted to make sure your doing ok Cause I know nima came wayyyyyy down hard on you,’ she wrote in one of these messages.
‘And thank you for being such a class man handling it with class. Love you Selfish pricks.’
In a statement, Khazar’s attorneys seemed to deny her involvement with Lee.
‘There are many rumors circulating around this case, many of them untrue,’ attorneys Mary McNamara and Ed Swanson told the Journal.
‘Ms. Momeni loves and supports her brother,’ they added. ‘What happened here is a tragedy, and Ms. Momeni is deeply saddened at the suffering of the Lee family as they deal with their terrible loss.’
Lee’s ex-wife, Krista, also denied that her estranged husband was a partier.
‘He was a dedicated father,’ she said of Lee. ‘He was more mature than that.’
