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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000950170-24-133879
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	424B3
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20241206
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20241206

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Scilex Holding Co
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001820190
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS (NO DIAGNOSTIC SUBSTANCES) [2836]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	03 Life Sciences
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		424B3
		SEC ACT:		1933 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	333-275117
		FILM NUMBER:		241530743

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		960 SAN ANTONIO ROAD
		CITY:			PALO ALTO
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94303
		BUSINESS PHONE:		(650) 516-4310

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		960 SAN ANTONIO ROAD
		CITY:			PALO ALTO
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94303

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	Scilex Holding Company/DE
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20221117

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	Vickers Vantage Corp. I
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20200804
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  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:0;text-align:right;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3)</font></p>
  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:0;text-align:right;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">Registration No. 333-275117</font></p>
  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:0;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT NO. 17</font></p>
  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">(to Prospectus dated March 29, 2024)</font></p>
  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:bold;font-size:20pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">Scilex Holding Company</font></p>
  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">Up to 13,474,683 Shares of Common Stock</font></p>
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  <p style="text-indent:3.333%;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">This prospectus supplement supplements the prospectus dated March 29, 2024 (the &#x201c;Prospectus&#x201d;), which forms a part of our registration statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-275117) for which Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 27, 2024 and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 29, 2024. This prospectus supplement is being filed to update and supplement the information in the Prospectus with the information contained in our Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 6, 2024 (the &#x201c;Current Report&#x201d;). Accordingly, we have attached the Current Report to this prospectus supplement.</font></p>
  <p style="text-indent:3.333%;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">The Prospectus and this prospectus supplement relate to </font><font style="color:#231f20;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">the resale from time to time by the selling stockholders named in the Prospectus (including their permitted transferees, donees, pledgees and other successors-in-interest) (collectively, the &#x201c;Selling Stockholders&#x201d;) of up to an aggregate of 13,474,683 shares (the &#x201c;Resale Shares&#x201d;) of our common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (&#x201c;Common Stock&#x201d;), consisting of:</font><font style="color:#231f20;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;"> </font></p>
  <p style="margin-left:3.333%;text-indent:3.448%;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">(i)     up to 474,683 shares of Common Stock (the &#x201c;HB Shares&#x201d;), of which 161,392 shares of Common Stock are held by Cove Lane Onshore Fund, LLC (&#x201c;Cove Lane&#x201d;) and 313,291 shares of Common Stock are held by HBC Investments LLC (&#x201c;HBC&#x201d;), in each case issued on September 25, 2023, pursuant to the Settlement Agreement (as defined and described below); and</font></p>
  <p style="margin-left:3.333%;text-indent:3.448%;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">(ii)   up to 13,000,000 shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of warrants to purchase Common Stock, having an exercise price of $0.01 per share (such shares issuable upon exercise, the &#x201c;Penny Warrant Shares&#x201d; and such warrants, the &#x201c;Penny Warrants&#x201d;), issued to Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. (&#x201c;Oramed&#x201d;) pursuant to the Scilex Oramed SPA (as defined and described below).</font></p>
  <p style="text-indent:3.333%;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">On September 21, 2023, we entered into, and consummated the transactions contemplated by that certain Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of such date, between us and Oramed (the &#x201c;Scilex-Oramed SPA&#x201d;). Pursuant to the Scilex-Oramed SPA, among other things, on September 21, 2023, we (i) issued to Oramed (A) a senior secured promissory note due 18 months from the date of issuance in the principal amount of $101,875,000 (the &#x201c;Oramed Note&#x201d;), (B) a warrant to purchase up to an aggregate of 4,500,000 shares of Common Stock (the &#x201c;Closing Penny Warrant&#x201d;), with an exercise price of $0.01 per share and restrictions on exercisability (as more fully described elsewhere in the Prospectus), and (C) warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 8,500,000 shares of Common Stock (the &#x201c;Subsequent Penny Warrants&#x201d; and together with the Closing Penny Warrant, the &#x201c;Penny Warrants&#x201d;), each with an exercise price of $0.01 per share and each with restrictions on exercisability (as more fully described elsewhere in the Prospectus), and (ii) caused certain outstanding warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 4,000,000 shares of Common Stock, with an exercise price of $11.50 per share, that we acquired from Sorrento pursuant to the Sorrento SPA (as defined and described elsewhere in the Prospectus) to be transferred to Oramed, which warrants were subsequently repurchased by us from Oramed. See the section in the Prospectus titled &#x201c;</font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-style:italic;min-width:fit-content;">Management&#x2019;s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations&#x2014;Recent Developments&#x2014;Transactions with Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc.</font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">&#x201d; for additional information regarding the Scilex-Oramed SPA and transactions related thereto.</font></p>
  <p style="text-indent:3.333%;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">On September 15, 2023, we entered into that certain Settlement Agreement (the &#x201c;Settlement Agreement&#x201d;) with Cove Lane, HBC and Hudson Bay Capital Management LP (&#x201c;Hudson Bay&#x201d; and collectively with Cove Lane and HBC, the &#x201c;Hudson Bay Parties&#x201d; and each a &#x201c;Hudson Bay Party&#x201d;) in connection with a previously contemplated financing with the Hudson Bay Parties. The HB Shares were issued to Cove Lane and HBC pursuant to the Settlement</font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;"> </font></p>
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  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">Agreement. See the section in the Prospectus titled &#x201c;</font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-style:italic;min-width:fit-content;">Management&#x2019;s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations&#x2014;Recent Developments&#x2014;Settlement Agreement</font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">&#x201d; for additional information.</font></p>
  <p style="text-indent:3.333%;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">Our Common Stock is listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol &#x201c;SCLX&#x201d;. On December 5, 2024, the last reported sales price per share of our Common Stock was $0.62.</font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">  </font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;"> </font></p>
  <p style="text-indent:3.333%;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">This prospectus supplement updates and supplements the information in the Prospectus and is not complete without, and may not be delivered or utilized except in combination with, the Prospectus, including any amendments or supplements thereto. This prospectus supplement should be read in conjunction with the Prospectus and if there is any inconsistency between the information in the Prospectus and this prospectus supplement, you should rely on the information in this prospectus supplement.</font></p>
  <p style="text-indent:3.333%;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">See the section entitled &#x201c;Risk Factors&#x201d; beginning on page 17 of the Prospectus as well as risks and uncertainties described under similar headings in any amendments or supplements to the Prospectus to read about factors you should consider before buying our securities.</font></p>
  <p style="text-indent:3.333%;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of this prospectus supplement or the Prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.</font></p>
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  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:3pt;text-align:center;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">CURRENT REPORT<br>PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)<br>OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934</font></p>
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