On May 1, 2017, Ellington Financial LLC (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing that its Board of Directors had declared a dividend for the first quarter of 2017 of $0.45 per share. The dividend will be paid on June 15, 2017 to shareholders of record on June 1, 2017. A copy of the press release is filed herewith as Exhibit 99.1 to this current report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d) Exhibits. The following exhibit is being filed herewith this Current Report on Form 8-K.

>99.1 Press Release dated May 1, 2017.

About ELLINGTON FINANCIAL LLC (NYSE:EFC)

Ellington Financial LLC is a specialty finance Company that acquires and manages mortgage-related and other financial assets. The Company is focused on assets, including residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) backed by prime jumbo, Alternative A-paper (Alt-A) manufactured housing and subprime residential mortgage loans, collectively referred to as non-Agency RMBS; RMBS, for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by the United States government agency or the United States government-sponsored entity (Agency RMBS); residential mortgage loans; mortgage servicing rights (MSRs); mortgage-related derivatives; commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), commercial mortgage loans and other commercial real estate debt; collateralized loan obligations (CLOs); consumer loans and asset-backed securities (ABS) backed by consumer and commercial assets, and corporate debt and equity securities and derivatives.

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ELLINGTON FINANCIAL LLC (NYSE:EFC) closed its last trading session up +0.05 at 16.53 with 19,768 shares trading hands.